What is Joomla and Should I Use it For My Website Content Management System?
What is Joomla? Joomla is an open-source Content Management System (CMS). It is also a powerful application framework, which means it is designed so many different website capabilities can be added by using “extensions” or mini-applications. Joomla’s roots go back to 2000 and Joomla has emerged in the last few years as one the most popular open-source CMS applications being used, and boasts having over 200,000 community users and contributors. Joomla uses PHP and mySQL and is extremely versatile. It is more than simply popular-it just works well and a volunteer community keeps making it better and better. How Does Joomla Work? Like all Content Management Systems, Joomla uses a database to contain all the website’s content or text, then combines the text with a website template design in order to create website pages. An Adminstrator page allows the website administrator to log in and have control over the entire website, for creating menu structures, adding exten...