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 What
is Joomla?
Joomla is
an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that
will help you build websites and other powerful online
applications. Best of all, Joomla is an open source
solution that is freely available to everybody. Joomla
is used all over the world to power everything from
simple, personal homepages to complex corporate web
applications. Joomla is a production of Open Source
Matters, the same team that brought you the award winning
Mambo Content Management System. OSM has taken their
final stable version of Mambo (4.5.2.3), given it a
spring clean and named it Joomla! 1.0 In addition, several
small features that were going to be released in Joomla!
1.1 have been brought forward and included in this release.
UPDATE:
New JOOMLA 1.5 available on all our cPanel accounts!
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You can easily
install Joomla in your AUSWEB hosting account using Fantastico
DeLuxe, which is an automated script installer that gives
you the choice of installing Joomla or any of the many Opensource
applications included. Installation is very easy, simply login
to your cPanel and click on the Fantastico link. From there simply
select Joomla from the menu, fill in an admin name and password,
then Joomla will be automatically installed and ready to use.
Joomla is
very versatile and can be used to easily manage every aspect of
your website, from adding content and images to updating a product
catalog or taking online reservations. Here are just some of the
ways people use Joomla:
- Corporate
websites or portals
- Online
commerce
- Small
business websites
- Non-profit
and organizational websites
- Government
applications
- Corporate
intranets and extranets
- School
and church websites
- Personal
or family homepages
- Community-based
portals
- Magazines
and newspapers
Once Joomla has
been installed, it allows non-technical people to add or modify
content on their website in a secure, controlled way. There is no
need to master HTML or complicated Web scripting languages or having
to pay a web developer every time you want to make an update to
your site. 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.
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It is
simple enough for small websites, yet powerful enough for large-scale
commercial web sites. These are some of the attractions to using
Joomla! Open Source, to manage content on personal and commercial
web sites.
 Joomla!
Open Source CMS:
- is easy to set up
and use
- has a simple and unique
Administration interface to manage web site content
- is easy, and flexible
enough to create custom designs, using the template system
- makes it easy to add
content and images
- is designed with simplicity
and flexibility for everyone.
From the non-tech Webmaster,
to an advanced programmer, it is designed to make it simple to
add custom applications.
Joomla! Open
Source CMS, can be used for many different types of Web sites,
such as:
- Comunity Portals
- Commercial web sites
- Intranet web sites
- Non-Profit web sites
- Personal web sites
- Integrated flash sites
The key feature is
the ability to manage your content directly on the web, by any
authorized Administrator
or user of the site. The person(s) that manage(s) the content
does not need to know any programming language such as HTML to
update the site because an online editor (WYSIWYG editor) is included
for formatting the text and inserting images. Also, there is no
need to upload your documents with hard-tounderstand FTP programs.
Just click on the save and publish buttons and your page is online
for your visitors to see!
Some of the different
applications that JOS (Joomla! Open Source) can be used for are:
- updating home and
news pages, with news or articles and images
- easily creating your
own content menus like Products > Hardware > DVD Recorders,
Products > Hardware > CD Recorders
- uploading MS Word,
MS Excel and Acrobat PDF documents for viewing.
- managing Banners (advertisement
etc.)
- creating Polls
- managing Web links
- managing FAQ (frequently
asked questions)
- managing News flashes
managing multi media flash, .jpg, gif, bmp and .png images,
- managing News feeds,
from different news source web sites
- managing contact and
email form pages
- managing Users, with
special access levels
- managing Archive pages
- managing 3rd party
developers, Components, Modules and Templates. For example:
- E-commerce, forums,
image galleries, calendar & agenda components, Help Desk etc.
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