What is Joomla!

Explain what Joomla is?

Joomla is a content management system (CMS), enabling you to build powerful interactive web sites. It is an open source solution meaning that it is free for everyone to use.

What is a Content Management System?

A Content Management System or CMS as it is sometimes known as, is a piece of software or application that manages every piece of content on your web site. The content can include text, photos, music, video, in fact just about anything (media wise) you can think of. One of the major benefits of using a Content Management System is that you don't need a high level of technical skill or knowledge to manage your content as Joomla (CMS) manages it all for you.

What type of People use Joomla?

All sorts of companies, organisations and peope use Joomla For example:

Corporate Web sites
Online magazines
E-commerce sites
Government applications
Small business Web sites
Non-profit and charity Web sites
School and church Web sites
Personal or family homepages

Is Joomla difficult to use?

Joomla has been designed to be easy to use from installing to setting up and creating content. However, you may find it easier to use an Internet Service Provider who will install Joomla for you so you can be up and running in next to no time.

As a Web Developer or Web Designer, you can quickly build sites for your clients and then allow them to easily manage their own sites for themselves. Using PHP and MySQL, Joomla is using the most common Internet technology that has proven to be stable and dynamic to use

How do I get started with Joomla?

I suggest you visit the Joomla web site and download the latest version

You can then return to 465-Media.com for all the latest information on how to use Joomla and create great web sites.

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