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Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

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I Love Joomla -- My Sites Are Great

  by PatchesPal

During the .com boom of the 90's a CMS with less capabilities than Joomla cost nearly $1 million. Now it's free.

The program is great -- it works. There are hundreds and hundreds of extensions available and they are a piece of cake to install.

There are also hundreds and hundreds of free and commercial templates (Skins) for Joomla.

The community is huge and the forum has answered all of my questions.

One ... [More] fellow complained about slow development. Look at the Joomla site and you will see global cooperative effort to advance the project. The real problem is the development is so fast that the extension providers have a hard time keeping up.

Frank Dwyer [Less]

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Joomla meets most needs...

  by BrianElliott0218

Versatility is what Joomla brings to the table. Someone reviewed Joomla as pretty but not extensible. I disagree! Not only are there thousands of extensions already built, but it comes with several for you to use on install. If none of these work for your purpose, you can write your own components (programs that run within Joomla), or Modules (display areas that can be placed in a variety of locations on the site), or plug-ins; also called ... [More] Mambots as a vestige of the old Mambo roots Joomla has. The new 1.5 version uses the term plug-ins. (Plugins can change the way that Joomla treats certain data or makes it easier for you to add in data (images, movies, sounds, etc)).

With all this extensibility, it is easy to put together some of the most useful pieces of a website or portal site. The biggest feature of Joomla is it's ease of use, and flexibility. Anyone who knows a little bit about internet publishing can do a whole lot with this little gem. Top of the line, and best in it's category. You can't find better for good money.

Bottom line, if you need to build a site with registered users, and/or have something to sell, this is the way to go. If you want to blog, this is a good choice, if you want to have a corporate site with great features, way to go.

OR you can hire a team of programmers, designers, testers, and roll out a site in about 6 months with a $500,000 to $1mil price tag. That takes a little time to recupe...

OR you can use something like PHPNuke, which is OK, but really for the amatures doing their game sites.

Hey, you build something better, let me know, and if you're promoting it Open Source and charging nothing for it, I may try it out. I think I will let go of my Joomla when you can pry it from my dead grasping fingers. :-)

~Brian Elliott
BE Enterprises [Less]

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    Joomla! Day Sydney 2008

    Posted about 20 hours ago

    Joomla! Day Sydney 2008 (http://sydney.joomladay.org.au) is scheduled for Monday, May 19, 2008, in conjunction with CeBIT Australia (http://www.cebit.com.au/). Community members from Sydney, Australia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney) are ... [More] finalizing plans for a great event to be held at the beautiful and world famous Sydney Conference and Exhibition Centre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Convention_and_Exhibition_Centre) located in Darling Harbour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darling_Harbour). The event agenda (http://sydney.joomladay.org.au/) is designed to share a broad range of technologies and ideas with a diverse audience of designers, students, charities, businesses, technical experts, and end users.

    Topics include:

    A technical discussion entitled Joomla! 1.5: Under the Hood delivered by Andrew Eddie (http://www.newlifeinit.com/), Joomla! Core Team member and Development Working Group coordinator.
    Andrew will also present a session on Joomla! 1.5 Template Overrides, an empowering toolset for Web site designers and developers.
    Brad Baker (http://www.xyzulu.com/), Joomla! Core Team member and Joomla.org forum administrator will share helpful information for Web site Performance and Security.
    Dinah Randall (http://spikesystems.com.au/), founder and president of the Sydney Joomla! User Group (http://www.joomladay.org.au/index.php?option=com_content view=category layout=blog id=33 Itemid=80) and Joomla! Day conference organiser will speak on Joomla! Creative - Templates and Design.
    Norm Douglas (http://nerdsonsite.com.au/intro/AU/default.asp) will present an overview entitled Getting Started with Joomla!.
    Patrick Jackson (http://www.kpsystems.com.au/) will share Joomla! Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategies and techniques needed to improve visibility of Joomla! Web sites.
    Damian Hickey (http://www.openfreeway.org/home/blogs/damian-hickey/browse/1.html) will share how Freeway (http://www.openfreeway.org/) easily integrates with Joomla!, resulting in powerful eCommerce solutions.
    Ashton Murphy (http://ashtonmurphy.com/) will share his experiences on the Google Highly Open Participation Contest (http://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/2007-8/) and a cool surprise.
    At the end of the day, attendees can ask questions of a panel of Joomla! experts.

    Following the event, all are invited for drinks and conversation Monday evening and to visit the Joomla! stand at CeBIT from May 20th to 22nd. Throughout the Open CeBIT conference, several Joomla! open source presentations will be held at CeBIT's Open Source Theatre.

    Register now (https://www.mycebit.com.au/rego08/index.php) for Sydney Joomla! Day. Those who register by May 14th will receive early bird discounts and a better chance at getting one of the T-shirts only available for the first 100 registrants. Registration ends on Saturday, May 17th. We hope that the Sydney Joomla! Day 2008 is a great success and an enjoyable and informative way to have fun with Joomla!.

    For more information, see:

    Sydney Joomla! Day 2008 (http://sydney.joomladay.org.au/)
    Register now (https://www.mycebit.com.au/rego08/index.php) [Less]

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