subject: Is Joomla The Most Powerful CMS [print this page] Content Management System is more commonly referred to as a CMS website. These types of websites provide the website owner the most control over the website. It facilitates content writing, content uploading, text formatting, images, creating and deleting links and creating new dynamic functionality. At the present time dynamic websites are replacing static websites. Dynamic websites have one way communication but dynamic websites are more interactive and provide two way communications between the site owner and the visitors.
There are a variety of content management system in the market like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento which provide the foundation to create simple CMS to more complex CMS. Joomla is widely used to empower developers to develop everything from simple, personal homepages to complex corporate web applications.
The name 'Joomla' is derived from the Swahili word 'Jumla', which means 'all together'. Joomla is a 'free' open source framework and content management and publishing system, which is specially designed for quickly creating highly interactive Web sites, blogs, online communities, multi-language websites, e-Commerce applications and portals.
Joomla can also be used with a great ease by any user with a little knowledge. User can easily add new page and can modify existing page using the editor support in this. Joomla also support multiple user authentications that means at the same time number of people can log on to the website.
With Joomla, developers can create a range of web applications. Some include:
Small business websites
Corporate websites
Portals
e-Magazines and e-newspapers
forums
Real Estate Websites
e-commerce applications
Hotel and Tourism websites
Non-profit and organizational websites
Online government applications
Corporate intranets and extranets
And a number of other web applications.
Different Joomla plugins are available on the net, which provide additional functionality to the joomla websites.
