Joomla - Free CMS

A website built on Joomla is great for those who want to easily edit content and manage their website. It is available free - see http://www.joomla.org.

Joomla was the 2006 Open Source Content Management System Award Winner! It is available free because it is open source. And basically a content management system allows YOU to manage the content on your website.

There is a great community of people who develop and share components for Joomla which can easily be plugged into your website.

The easiest way to set up Joomla is to:

  1. Sign up for a hosting server with Fantastico (which is a tool that does automatic Joomla installation) like Bluehost.

  2. Once you install Joomla (extremely easy from the server's control panel) you can purchase and install a Professional Joomla template.

  3. You will need to add content and set up the links and menus within joomla.

  4. You can then download and install additional extensions as per your requirements (such as the ones mentioned below) from http://extensions.joomla.org/

Some of the useful components available are:

  • Performs - Allows you to build forms with the fields you want on your website.

  • Letterman Newsletter - collect email addresses on your website and send newsletters out.

  • Joomlaboard - A discussion forum where your website visitors can interact.

  • Pollxt - Create polls and surveys on your website. This extends the poll component already available within Joomla.

  • Community builder - this allows you to build a network of people on your website. They can make contact with each other and meet more people through their contacts

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