Joomla! is a free and open source content management system (CMS) for publishing content on the World Wide Web. It comprises a model–view–controller (MVC) Web application framework that can also be used independently.
Joomla! is written in PHP, uses object-oriented programming (OOP) techniques and software design patterns, stores data in a MySQL database, and includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, search, and support for language internationalization.
It is ideal when you want to create a community or a network with a membership area, newsroom, forums, articles, input from external authors. Creating a navigation structure is easy, once you understand how it works and it doesn’t require knowledge of html. Joomla gives you a lot of power in your hands and that is noticeable in the admin section where there are many options. Adapting the look is simple if you are happy with changing some colours and the logo. Beyond that, you will find that Joomla has a complicated structure and even seasoned web developers have to go through a learning curve before they master the layout system, and that approach is different depending on the layout template you chose.
Joomla’s strength is in complexity. Deep level navigation, sections in sections, categories.
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