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joomla for beginners

 What Is Joomla ?

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

 

 What IS (CMS) : Content Management System

 


How Joomla! Works

A CMS is a fair bit more complicated than a simple web server, but you will need to
know only the basics to use Joomla effectively. If you understand the general process
that Joomla uses to retrieve content, format it, and return it to the requesting web
browser, you will be able to see how you can configure the Joomla system to present
content in a manner that best suits your needs.
Figure 1-3 presents a block diagram of a simple web server. Interaction begins when
a web browser requests a page of the web server. The web server retrieves the HTML code
from the requested static HTML file (e.g., http://www.example.com/index.html) and returns
it to the browser. The HTML file is called a static web page because the page returned to
the browser is exactly the content contained in the file stored on the server—nothing
more, nothing less. That’s about as simple as it gets.


Joomla! Benefits

With numerous CMS programs available, it’s interesting to note that Joomla alone has
been embraced by a wide spectrum of individuals, corporations, nonprofit organizations,
boutique businesses, and public organizations.
One reason for Joomla’s wide adoption is its ease of use. If you have any experience
with web site construction or CMS design, you can use Joomla once and understand why
people and businesses have adopted it in such large numbers.
Joomla’s ease of use is matched only by its built-in professional features. In addition
to Joomla’s robust native feature set, over 200 free and commercial plug-ins are available
to use with it. This vast array of extensions makes it possible to deploy a Joomla system
that can do almost anything you need, from chat rooms, to online auctions, to classified
ads, to inventory management.
Despite the gold-medal capabilities of the system, however, I think the primary
reason Joomla is so popular is the award-winning user interface aesthetics the application
offers to even the most novice users. The professionally designed user interface
templates, both those included with the default installation and those available from
the large third-party market, can instantly make almost any web site a “sight to
behold.” Gone are the days when a web site required a dedicated professional web
designer to look immaculate. Joomla allows the most humble blog site to stand toe to
toe with a multimillion-dollar web site without blinking. That means a professional
web presence is available to site creators with no graphic arts experience. The aesthetics
of a Joomla site are unparalleled by any other system.
Further, many CMS systems nearly require an advanced degree to set up and maintain.
Joomla, in contrast, enables you to perform all maintenance tasks through a simple
and elegant administration screen (see Figure 1-2). Since Joomla administration is web
based, a Joomla site can be managed from wherever you happen to be—even if you’re
resting comfortably on a beach in Maui with a piña colada in one hand and laptop with
aWi-Fi connection in the other.
In the sections that follow, you’ll be introduced to various Joomla features and learn,
in a nutshell, how the application works.

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