As already mentioned within the articles and web pages before Joomla! is a free content management system everybody can use in order to build websites in a very easy and fast way. Strictly speaking Joomla! makes it possible to build and create complex as well as profound and well-arranged web portals without the need of advanced and perfect programming skills or solid web programming knowledge.
When using Joomla! you just have to run through the following steps:
- You download the content management system Joomla!,
- you install it,
- afterwards you add a template,
- and enhance the whole content management system, short CMS, by means of a variety of extensions.
In spite of all you should mind that like any other content management system, Joomla! is not perfect. Of course there are pluses as well as minuses of using Joomla! in general, its functions, templates, extensions, etc. Within this article we will inform you about the wide range of pros of using Joomla! as a whole.
First of all the content management system Joomla! should be your first choice if you do not want to spend money in web design, web programming and a web agency in general. As already mentioned Joomla! is freely downloadable, in other words an open-source content management system. Joomla! is easy to use and handle and the perfect content management system when it comes to finishing very quickly with the structure of a website. Furthermore Joomla! makes it possible to add content both easily and very fast. Concerning this matter the Joomla! backend enables every user to insert text, content in general, photos, images and many other elements. By means of an easy and well-arranged editor you can manage the whole content of your website – almost as if you were using Microsoft Word or OpenOffice.
Moreover, Joomla! represents a content management system for everybody. Strictly speaking Joomla! does not require the need of advanced programming skills or knowledge. It is very easy to learn, use and handle. You can also use hundreds of different Joomla! tutorials and forums in the internet that will teach you how to run the system and manage the whole content of your web page.
One of the best things about Joomla! in general is that users get offered thousands of different and interesting plug-ins as well as extensions. Every single plug-in or extension is downloadable; many are free, others can be bought for more or less $20. Furthermore it can be said that these plug-ins and extensions handle about special ‘effects’ you would need, including for instance Twitter feeds, calendars, Facebook plug-ins and many others more.
Another advantage of using Joomla! consists in the fact that it is 100% free, strictly speaking an open source content management system. All you need is a web space providing a MySQL database and PHP 5.0 or greater which will consequently allow you to install Joomla! as a whole.
Concluding the content management system Joomla! represents a great alternative to other systems such as for instance Typo3 or Drupal which require advanced content management system skills as well as profound knowledge in general.