Joomla! is a PHP Open Source content management system designed to publish content on inter and net through SQL databases. Joomla! includes features such as performance caching, RSS, web page printing option, cutting-edge news, blogs, surveys, web search, and international location. The name represents the phonetic transcription of the word Swahili “jumla”, meaning “together” or “all together”.
What CMS means
CMS means Content Management System. CMS is a software application designed to create and manage a website. It can control the layout, structure, and content of a public, intranet or extranet site.
The functions that a CMS can have are:
1. Creation and transfer of documents and multimedia material
2. Manage content and create roles for users who handle content management.
3. Beneficially publish content to site users
What are the benefits of a CMS system:
Real control over the site.
Editing a website’s content becomes very easy and practical.
Automated statistics.
Permanent optimization.
Personalize your graphics according to your needs and needs.
Customized functions according to requirements and needs.
Joomla is one of the most popular and simple to use Content Management System (CMS). The biggest benefit to using a JOOMLA CMS is that you no longer work alone. A team will work for you, bringing upgrades, modules, extensions, design, and all this can be found for free. JOOMLA can be used to easily manage any component of the website, from adding content and images to updating a product catalog or online survey.
Here are some ways to use JOOMLA:
Web sites for corporations or web portals
On-line trade
Small business websites
Website for non-profit organizations
Government applications
Intra and corporate extensions
Website for schools and churches
Personal or family websites
Portals for online communities
Websites for magazines and newspapers
Joomla! contains more components, designed as modularly as possible, facilitating their integration and extensibility. An example is the so-called “Bots”. A Bot is a module that once enabled, will bring you new Joomla! Features. Joomla! has both an official community and an informal community. Official Joomla Forum! (Joomla.org) “boasts” over 403,460 threads, over 1,784,115 messages and over 316,110 members, speaking 42 languages. Unofficial sites are published in many languages, offering Joomla! specific to that region. Web developers also produce business extensions and templates in addition to customization services.
Joomla! came into being following the division of the Mambo application between Miro Corporation in Australia, the Mambo license holders at that time and the then development team.
The two camps broke up on August 14, 2005, Miro founded a nonprofit foundation to fund the project and protect it from legal action.
The development team created a site called OpenSourceMatters to share information for users, developers, web designers and the community in general. By the following day, more than 1,000 people signed up for the opensourcematters.com forum, most of whom expressed encouragement and support for the development team. This event has sparked controversy in the free software community about what should be considered “Open Source“.