What is Joomla?

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone. -Joomla.org

Joomla is a cutting edge content management system (CMS) designed to be highly extensible while at the same time extremely easy to use. With Joomla, it is simple for even non-technical users to add or edit content, update images, and to manage the critical data that powers your company or organization. Anybody with basic word processing skills can easily learn to manage a Joomla site.

Via a simple browser-based interface you will be able to easily add new press releases or news items, manage staff pages, job listings, product images, and create an unlimited amount of sections or content pages on your site.

Best of all, Joomla is Open Source and licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), which means there is no cost to use the software or even develop it further. We do not sell Joomla, as it is free software; we charge for the time and resources required to develop a Joomla web site. Some 3rd party developers sell premium extensions for Joomla while others offer their extensions for free as well, in the spirit of the Open Source community.

Taking Joomla to the Next Level

Out of the box, Joomla does a great job of managing the content needed to get your website off the ground. However, the true power of Joomla lies in the application framework that has enabled thousands of developers around the world to create powerful add-ons and extensions. Here are just some examples of the hundreds of available extensions: