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Joomla! is a free open source content management system for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets. The system includes features such as page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalization. Joomla is licensed under the GPL, and is the result of a fork of Mambo.
The name Joomla officially ends with an exclamation mark, but this is commonly omitted.
It is written in the PHP programming language and uses the MySQL database by default.
Joomla’s building bricks are: Template, Articles, Components, Modules and Plugins. There are thousands of free Templates available and hundreds Proffesional commercial ones.
The main functionality of joomla is Article publishing. You can write articles in you administrator content and publish them on the front page or other menu items.
The strength of joomla lies in its components / Extensions. These are building blocks that can by far exceed any simple article website. You can install eCommerce extensions, Property management extensions, Auction Extensions, and many more type of components.
Articles are basically ‘articles’ or ‘posts’ that you write, which make up the better part of your website. Because Joomla is organized like a magazine, newsletter, or blog, content items represent individual articles that can contain an “intro” to the content item but don’t necessarily have to. If you’re posting a blog article that’s longer than 300 or 500 words, intros are helpful. If you’re just writing up some content for your website, you can enter all your text in the “intro” area as below and you’ll be fine!
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