Joomla! is an open source content management system for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets. The system includes features such as page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalization.

For what is Joomla used?

Joomla is being used world wide these days to develop from simple website page to complex corporate web applications. Here are some of the fields where Joomla is used:

• Corporate websites or portals
  
• The possibilities are limitless…
  
• Online commerce
  
• School and church websites
  
• Corporate intranets and extranets
  
• Small business websites
  
• Community-based portals
  
• Non-profit and organizational websites
  
• Magazines and newspapers
  
• Government applications
  
• Personal or family homepages
  

Some small, direct use of Joomla Software are:

• Change order of objects including news, FAQs, Articles etc.
  
• Random Newsflash generator
  
• Remote Author submission Module for News, Articles, FAQs, and Links
  
• Object hierarchy - as many Sections, departments, divisions, and pages as you want
  
• Image library - store all your PNGs, PDFs, DOCs, XLSs, GIFs, and JPEGs online for easy use
  
• Automatic Path-Finder. Place a picture and let Joomla! fix the link
  
• News Feed Manager. Choose from over 360 News Feeds from around the world
  
• E-mail a friend and Print format available for every story and Article
  
• In-line Text editor similar to any basic word processor software
  
• User editable look and feel
  
• Polls/Surveys - Now put a different one on each page
  
• Custom Page Modules. Download custom page Modules to spice up your site
  
• Template Manager. Download Templates and implement them in seconds
  
• Layout preview. See how it looks before going live
  
• Banner Manager. Make money out of your site
  

Joomla! features:

• Completely database driven site engines
  
• News, products, or services sections fully editable and manageable
  
• Topics sections can be added to by contributing Authors
  
• Fully customisable layouts including left, center, and right Menu boxes
  
• Browser upload of images to your own library for use anywhere in the site
  
• Dynamic Forum/Poll/Voting booth for on-the-spot results
  
• Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX server, Solaris, and AIX