What is Joomla? Joomla is an extendable framework for building websites. You provide the content and Joomla provides the Conent Management System (CMS) for organizing your information. With thousands of extensions and plug-ins, you can expand the power and maximize your website almost endlessly.

Why choose Joomla? If you have a business or you want to create an online community, Joomla will save you time and money while making you extremely satisfied! Content can continuously be added without a website re-design each time you want to make a change or add some content. With new developments in technology, social media, and business you can easily implement new functionality so your site stays fresh and current.

Here are some interesting facts about Joomla!

• Over 210,000 active registered Users on the Official Joomla! community forum and more on the many international community sites.
  • over 1,000,000 posts in over 200,000 topics
  • over 1,200 posts per day
  • growing at 150 new participants each day!
• 1168 Projects on the JoomlaCode (joomlacode.org ). All for open source addons by third party developers.
  • Well over 6,000,000 downloads of Joomla! since the migration to JoomlaCode in March 2007.
    
• Nearly 4,000 extensions for Joomla! have been registered on the Joomla! Extension Directory
• Joomla.org exceeds 2 TB of traffic per month!

Joomla! features:

• Completely database driven site engines
• News, products, or services sections fully editable and manageable
• Topics sections can be added to by contributing Authors
• Fully customisable layouts including left, center, and right Menu boxes
• Browser upload of images to your own library for use anywhere in the site
• Dynamic Forum/Poll/Voting booth for on-the-spot results
• Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX server, Solaris, and AIX

Extensive Administration:

• Change order of objects including news, FAQs, Articles etc.
• Random Newsflash generator
• Remote Author submission Module for News, Articles, FAQs, and Links
• Object hierarchy - as many Sections, departments, divisions, and pages as you want
• Image library - store all your PNGs, PDFs, DOCs, XLSs, GIFs, and JPEGs online for easy use
• Automatic Path-Finder. Place a picture and let Joomla! fix the link
• News Feed Manager. Easily integrate news feeds into your Web site.
• E-mail a friend and Print format available for every story and Article
• In-line Text editor similar to any basic word processor software
• User editable look and feel
• Polls/Surveys - Now put a different one on each page
• Custom Page Modules. Download custom page Modules to spice up your site
• Template Manager. Download Templates and implement them in seconds
• Layout preview. See how it looks before going live
• Banner Manager. Make money out of your site.

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