What is Joomla?
Joomla is a popular, award-winning content management system (CMS), used for building robust and powerful websites and online applications. The core Joomla system itself is open source and freely available to everyone. Joomla is highly extendable through it's support of third party modules, components and plugins that are available both for free and commercially, through the Joomla community.
What Joomla Can Do
Through the vast number of extensions, last counting at 5495, you can add many features and functionality to your site, including and not limited to:
- Social networking site integration
- Contact forms and feedback
- Calendars and events
- Ads and marketing affiliates
- Access and security
- Backups and maintenance
- Communication
- Communities and groupware
- E-Commerce
- Multimedia, photos and images
- Structure and navigation
- News displays and production
Minimum Requirements
Your ISP will need to have the following installed on your hosting platform as a minimum requirement: PHP5 and MySQL
