What is Joomla?

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

What's a content management system (CMS)?

A content management system is software that keeps track of every piece of content on your Web site, much like your local public library keeps track of books and stores them. Content can be simple text, photos, music, video, documents, or just about anything you can think of. A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage. Since the CMS manages all your content, you don't have to.

This is why Ambitious Media Web recomends CMS as the method of creating and maintaining your website.  And Joomla! is our CMS of chouice as it's more robust in its varieties of extensions ("helper programs," if you will, that can add new features and functions to your website), and is the over all top performer in speed and presentation.  Ambitious Media will train you how to update and maintain the content of your site.  Once you get the hang of it, it really is like writing in your favorite word processor software. You won't need to learn code, you don't have to guess what your page will look like.

In the end, the biggest benefit of using a CMS in general, and Joomla! to be specific is:  You'll never have to wait for your "Web Guy" again!  You can make all your changes, add whatever you'd like to your website... When you want, and how you want it.  You'll not only save money, but time and frustration too!

What are some real world examples of what Joomla! can do?

Joomla is used all over the world to power Web sites of all shapes and sizes. For example:

• Corporate Web sites or portals
• Corporate intranets and extranets
• Online magazines, newspapers, and publications
• E-commerce and online reservations
• Government applications
• Small business Web sites
• Non-profit and organizational Web sites
• Community-based portals
• School and church Web sites
• Personal or family homepages

Who uses Joomla?

Here are just a few examples of Web sites that use Joomla:

• MTV Networks Quizilla (Social networking) - http://www.quizilla.com
• IHOP (Restaurant chain) - http://www.ihop.com
• Harvard University (Educational) - http://gsas.harvard.edu
• Citibank (Financial institution intranet) - Not publicly accessible
• The Green Maven (Eco-resources) - http://www.greenmaven.com
• Outdoor Photographer (Magazine) - http://www.outdoorphotographer.com
• PlayShakespeare.com (Cultural) - http://www.playshakespeare.com
• Senso Interiors (Furniture design) - http://www.sensointeriors.co.za

More examples of companies using Joomla can be found in the Joomla Community Site Showcase.

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For all these reasons and more, Joomla! is the CMS and Authoring System of choice when Ambitious Media Web takes on a project for you.  Speed of deployment, flexability and ease of use for customers who would like to update and maintain their sites themselves are just a few of the benefits of making Joomla! your choice when it comes to building your site.