Joomla! FAQ

If you're new to Web publishing systems, you'll find that Joomla! delivers sophisticated solutions to your online needs.

It can deliver a robust enterprise-level website, empowered by endless extensibility for your bespoke publishing needs.

Moreover, it is often the system of choice for small business or home users who want a professional looking site that's simple to use.

So what's the catch? How much does this system cost? Well, there's good news ...and more good news!

Joomla! 1.5 is free - it is released under an open source license (the GNU/General Public License v2.0).

Had you invested in a mainstream, commercial alternative, there would be nothing but moths left in your wallet and you'd probably have to take out a second mortgage every time you wanted to add new functionality to your website!

Joomla! is different from the normal models for content management software. For a start, it's not complicated and it's designed to work (primarily) with other open source, free, software such as PHP, MySQL, and Apache.

Furthermore it's easy to administer, and is reliable.

Joomla! doesn't require the user or administrator of the system to know HTML to operate it once it's up and running.

To get the perfect website with all the functionality that you require for your particular application may take additional time and effort, but with the Joomla! Community support that is available and the many Third Party Developers actively creating and releasing new Extensions for the 1.5 platform on an almost daily basis, there is likely to be something out there to meet your needs.

Key advantages of Joomla! 1.5

• Intuitive back-end administration panel streamlines site maintenance.
• Thousands of available Joomla! Extensions which can enhance a site’s functionality as it grows and evolves.
• Open source.
• Secure.
• Facilitates multiple user groups with different levels of access.
• Front-end and back-end content creation.