To present an informative and impressive collection of the features of their services, businesses need to put together electronic text, documents, pictures, sound and movies on the internet, so interested Internet visitors can find and browse through them.
Information in various forms like text, audio and video is broadly what is referred to as content. Placing the corporate information on the Web, maintaining and updating from time to time and generally managing the content requires a good content management system (CMS).
Such software to be useful and cost-effective has to provide all the necessary features and be friendly towards the Website owner, the Web developer and most importantly, the Website's visitors.
There is also a need for systematically organizing the content in such a way that it can be searched through. For example, a visitor looking for a Tee-Shirt of a size, color and price-range of his choice should quickly be presented with the details of the right product. In other words, a data base management system with indexing and searching capabilities needs to be working in the background, transparent to the user.
Joomla! is a free, open source content management system for publishing content on the Web and intranets. Being open source, it is highly cost effective. It saves on both development and maintenance costs.
With banners, contact management, newsfeeds, online polls and voting for spot results, search and Web links, as well as online editors, content archiving, news flash, statistics and an integrated help system, it has every kind of feature needed for a powerful Web site. Joomla! has a data driven site engine. The system is well-suited for marketing purposes and for search engine optimization.
Joomla is versatile. It is suitable for development of Web sites for educational institutions, commercial companies, corporate houses and industries, non-profit organizations, personal sites, social sites and community portals, governmental portals, multilingual Web sites and every other purpose. It generates visually appealing Web sites. There are any number of ready-to-use templates which can be modified, enhanced or adapted to suit the Web site's requirements and the site owner's taste.
The design system of web application development provides easy navigation and a convenient way to edit, update and manage content. If you are looking to build a new Web site, it can get it up and running in hours. Adapting an existing Web site to Joomla CMS too, is very simple. It is very user friendly. It was expressly designed with a view to give the freedom of customizing the content to the user. It is super easy to add, modify and manage the content once the site has started running.
It also has Forums, management of contracts with clients, multiple language support, multi-user access and many more features.
Small businesses can build an instant Web site with a pleasing appearance and minimalist layout. As the business grows, the site will grow in step, getting new features and functionalities. Sites developed in the Web application developments system have the potential to grow easily and quickly into fully powered business sites.
The most recent release is the Joomla! 1.6.3 of April 18, 2011. Version 1.6 has fine-tuned control of "who sees what" on the Website, along with hundreds of new features for a smoother workflow and better productivity.
Joomla runs on the Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, MacOSX server and Solaris and AIX platforms.
Investment in the Web development (Joomla) is protected because the code is flexible, extensible and reusable. This reduces future maintenance and up-gradation costs of the project.
For an effective business Web site, a professional Joomla! Web application development service with the skills and knowledge of technology is required. This will ensure that the owner of the Web site gets a quality result in time and the Web site starts generating returns on investment at the earliest.
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