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Joomla is needed for you to update the web pages easily. Joomla helps you in three things mainly; namely content, template and layout.
Joomla is the most important and secured content management systems on the earth. It has been used across the world by one and all. Everyone who is in to business has to use this. Joomla is free to download and install on your server. Most of the companies offer a free installation of Joomla utilizing a script inside your hosting account. Joomla is installed in seconds and is fast, secure and reliable.
Who all are Joomla users? Joomla users are small companies to fortune 100 companies. From municipalities to government sites and nonprofit organizations. Joomla offers an affordable, powerful, efficient and effective website solution. Joomla helps in having multiple users to contribute to a web site creating dynamic use experience. Joomla enables the web master to engage in rapid content creation. All the content will be arranged in a simple admin area. Joomla stores its content and page assets like images and text. WebPages cannot be created by Joomla which could be edited in Dreamweaver or HTML.
You can however edit the HTML contained in the BODY of a Joomla webpage and the content inside a "custom module" using Dreamweaver or another HTML editor. Doing so allows for building complex page layouts that go beyond the professionally designed Joomla templates. This is also a simple way to add any FLASH elements, custom HTML, PHP, JavaScript or any other custom code. Additionally, there are some online Joomla video training sites that teach you stepbystep how to use Joomla.
Joomla Learning Those who are the beginners in learning Joomla, it may be difficult initially, DON’T LOSE PATIENCE! All you need is to read the help forums at Joomla. Org and also join the online community of Joomla users. More than 1 million people will be waiting to help out if you ask. The help is abundant; you need to find out what to ask and whom to ask. Joomla and WordPress are two of the most popular ones and have established their own communities on the internet.
There are hundreds of quality forums and blogs dedicated specifically towards the use of Joomla and WordPress for designing websites. Other web design and content management systems including Drupal and Typo3 have also proved popular and effective. However WordPress and Joomla seem to have an edge over the others in terms of global popularity and use.
Joomla on the other hand offers many powerful features. There are Joomla components that target almost every industry and market. A Joomla websites can be customized accordingly to overcome any SEO shortcomings.
You can build small as well as complex web sites with the help of Joomla. Hence scalability is there with Joomla. Joomla has a well formed and powerful API that developers can use to extend the software or integrate with other systems as required. Joomla websites can be easily integrated with other sources or websites.
Joomla Integration Though Joomla is a typical open source content management system, a lot of magic can be done and witnesses when integrated with many third party APIs either to make it an ecommerce engine, or contain a blogging feature etc.
The best example of this and most widely used is Joomla + VirtueMart for ecommerce portals which gives the flexibility of Magento including a shopping cart system, integration with shipping APIs and a lot more.
About Author Henrika is working with leading Ecommerce Solution Provider firm based at Sweden. she is passionate to share useful tips on Joomla Website Design, online store development and Shopping Cart Development.