A small Joomla! introduction

The Joomla! Content Management System is free website management software for publishing content and creating communities on the web. Features like full language internationalization, caching for smoother page loading and the modular structure make it ideal for the websites of today, and tomorrow!

Joomla! itself is build on many different parts, created by hundreds of people all over the world, most of these parts are build to be modular itself allowing the user to extend the system and integrate with other systems. Since version 1.5 these extentions are called plugins (In Joomla 1.0.x they were called mambots).
In addition to the standard plugins, users have submitted over 3000 plugins which are available through the Joomla! Extention website.

Joomla! spawned into existence August 17, 2005 as a direct fork of Mambo, in the first few years Joomla! was still mostly based on Mambo and therefore most extentions and templates were exchangable.
In January 2008 version 1.5 was released and with that version most pieces of Mambo code disappeared. The core system was now almost entirely rewritten and compatibility was lost.

Joomla! can look many ways
Much like our friend to the right, Joomla! can change it's outer skin in seconds, using so called Templates it's possible to have a different set of colours, or even a completely new layout without creating an entirely new website. If you let us build your Joomla! website, the template design is included. If you want to start using Joomla! yourself then themesbase is a good place to start! You can ofcourse take a look at themesbase before contacting us, you'll have a better idea of the possibilities for a Joomla! template.

Use the Force !
Once you start using Joomla! you will notice that not only the way it looks can be modified, you can even change the way it works!. Using so called plugins you expand the functionality with widget like items. If that is not enough you can even add complete programs like a forum, webshop or almost anything you can think of.
Need a plugin or component that does not exist but only in your imagination? contact us and we make it a reality!