Joomla CMS
Joomla is an award-winning open source CMS written in PHP. It enables the building of websites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its user-friendliness and extensible nature, makes Joomla the most popular Web-based software development CMS. Joomla is built on the model– view–controller (MVC) Web application framework, which can be used independent of the CMS.
Joomla CMS can store data in a MySQL, MS SQL or PostgreSQL database, and includes features like page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, search and support for language internationalisation.
According to reports by Market Wire, New York, as of February 2014, Joomla has been downloaded over 50 million times. Over 7,700 free and commercial extensions are available from the official Joomla Extension Directory and more are available from other sources. It is supposedly the second most used CMS on the Internet after WordPress. Many websites provide information on installing and maintaining Joomla sites.
Joomla is used across the globe to power websites of all types and sizes: • Corporate websites or portals • Corporate intranets and extranets • Online magazines, newspapers and publications • E-commerce and online reservation sites • Sites offering government applications • Websites of small businesses and NGOs • Community-based portals • School and church websites • Personal or family home pages Joomla’s user base includes: • The military - http://www.militaryadvice.org/ • US Army Corps of Engineers - Country: http://www.spl.
usace.army.mil/cms/index.php • MTV Networks Quizilla (social networking) - http://www.
quizilla.com • New Hampshire National Guard - https://www.nh.ngb. army.mil/ • United Nations Regional Information Centre - http://www. unric.org • IHOP (a restaurant chain) - http://www.ihop.com • Harvard University - http://gsas.harvard.edu … and many others The essential features of Joomla are: • User management • Media manager • Language manager • Banner management • Contact management • Polls • Search • Web link management • Content management • Syndication and newsfeed management • Menu manager • Template management • Integrated help system • System features • Web services • Powerful extensibility