introducing joomla! cms
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Kandarp Vyas
What Is Joomla! ?
Joomla! is one of the mostpowerful Open Source ContentManagement Systems on theplanet. It is used all over theworld for everything fromsimple websites to complexcorporate applications. Joomla!is easy to install, simple tomanage, and reliable.
Cutting Edge Content Management
What is a CMS?
• Helps you create/edit/delete content in a shared database
• Organizes content
• Content shared across the Web site
• Content can be published or not based on conditions
• Much improved control of the format (CSS)
Benefits of CMS
• Creation of content in a standard format using a Web browser and WYSIWYG editor (FrontPage, Dreamweaver, etc.)
• Share the work with several members and have options to let the public enter content (Library 2.0)
• Control of branding elements
• Archive and reuse content
Various CMS products
• PhpNuke (www.phpnuke.org)
• Drupal (www.drupal.org)
• Mambo (http://source.mambo-foundation.org/)
• Joomla (joomla.org)
Joomla!• The name Joomla is a phonetic spelling for the
word "Jumla", which means "all together" or "as a whole".
• Open Source software
• A fork of Mambo CMS
• Available for Linux, Unix , Windows, Mac OS.
What Joomla! Countains ?
• php files
• A few additional files such as XML, Java
• php script to create initial database and tables (Mysql)
• Front and backend access
Joomla! Templates
• Much like Microsoft Word Templates
• Positions on screen
– Top, banner, header, left, right
• Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) for entire site
• Control over look and feel
Example of template
Why Use Joomla! ?
• Simplicity– Intuitive Graphical Web User
Interface (WebUI)
• Flexibility– Highly configurable and tailorable
• Robust– Extremely stable core infrastructure
• Extensible– 3rd Party Extension and Plug-In
capabilities
• Open Source Code– You can modify anything you like
• Published API– Windows in the code allowing 3rd Party
extension
• Dynamic Content– MySQL database driven
• Pro-Active Support– Joomla! Teams and Community
members
How Can Joomla! Be Used?• Simple Websites
• Community Portals
• Magazines,Newspapers
• Corporate Intranets
• WebLog (Blog) Sites
• E-Commerce Shops
• B2B & B2C Frameworks
• Customer Self-Service
• Member/Directory Sites
• NGO,Churches,Schools
– and much, much more…
Top Three Reasons
For using Joomla!Community Poll February 2011
1. The Community
2. Easy To Use
3. Extensible
Websites Created Using Joomla!
Thank You !.
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