Joomla Is An Entirely Independent Project, Powered Only For Its Volunteers

Joomla is an open source content management system (CMS)

, founded in September 2005 from the Mambo fork. Joomla is one of the three most popular open source content management systems in the world. It is the power of nearly 25 million. Web pages, or 10.3% market share of the most important sites of one million, boasts 500,000 posts on the forum, and have thousands of authors. More than 2,800 government Web pages of 204 countries are using Joomla. In fact, it's more likely that the government is running Joomla site some point in their system than the fact that the government of the United Nations member.

Joomla is an entirely independent project, powered only for its volunteers. There is a large company, to contribute to Joomla or backing it up somehow, as true as WordPress and Drupal. Joomla has an annual budget of less than $ 400,000 a year, mostly from Google Ad Words and gifts. No one is currently paid for their work on the Joomla project.

In addition, there is no "benevolent dictator" Joomla project. Community governed by the three organizations, including manufacturing leadership team (ITS), the leadership team, CLT), and the Board of Directors of Open Source Matters OSM). Work is to determine PLT software project vision and direction. CLT governs the Community, including Joomla web sites. OSM is responsible for finance, legal aspects of the project "brand. Three teams are working together to manage Joomla and meet regularly to discuss the project.

What is the Joomla unique?

Joomla has some interesting changes in the last year of your project, making it unique among open source CMSS. First of all, Joomla Project is comprised of two entities: CMS, plus a completely independent system. The system called Joomla platform, and he was released in 2011. July. The platform can be used for different types of applications development. The most striking development is eBay making Joomla platform, as it develops Intranet analytics measurement system.

CMS is also in active development. CMS is now experiencing releases every 6 months, three messages going through each of the main development cycle, called the series. The first two releases of the cycle in this case, Joomla 1.6 and 1.7) are short-term release, a vibrant 7-month period before reaching the end of life. The third release (in this case, the Joomla 2.5) release is a long, well at least 18 months. Joomla 1.6 was released in January 2011, and Joomla 1.7 after 2011. Joomla 2.5, long-term release, are expected to be released in 2012.

After the release of Joomla 2.5 will begin a new cycle of development. Major changes will take place next Joomla release, Joomla 3.0, will appear July 2012th Discussion of these changes are now beginning to emerge.

Joomla 1.6 has led to some major new features of Joomla; including a powerful access control lists (ACLs) system, nested categories, and improved templates. A Joomla main product now supports HTML 5, as well. Fully accessible Administrator template, Hath or, comes with the release of Joomla. Hath or allows you to use the Joomla back-end for people with disabilities. It supports WCAG 2.0 AA standard, and this pattern is important for those with disabilities who have to support Joomla administrators.

Joomla 1.7 Joomla 1.6 is built on success, hundreds of ftp errors, adding a few new features, and complete separation of CMS.

What are good sites to develop with Joomla?

Joomla is generally understood as a continuous between Drupal and WordPress from marketing and technical point of view, and the WordPress site occupies a small market in the end and top end of the Drupal, Joomla bridges between the two markets with ease. The Joomla is easy, friendly interface, Joomla is a widely accepted former WordPress developers who need a little more power to create a page, but does not necessarily have all the arsenal of coding skills. At the same time, the hands of an experienced developer, Joomla, you can create a powerful website with thousands of pages, shopping carts, social networks, and more.

My company, 4Web Inc., built a small website (5-20 pages). With Joomla, mainly because our clients can edit the site without knowing HTML. It usually consists of hundreds of thousands of pages of content sites we build.

With a variety of both commercial and free templates and extensions, it is possible to create a Joomla site without knowing HTML, CSS, PHP, or MySQL. However, if you want anything Joomla framework, the best way to achieve it - learning to hand-coded HTML and CSS eye toward learning Joomla templates system.

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