introducing joomla! cms

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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