Joomla, history and strengths of a serious CMS

Joomla is a CMS, a program for the functional and content management of websites, born as early as 2005, or rather, evolved from its predecessors, including Mambo!

Some technicians involved in an open source program, precisely Mambo, a few years ago (which on the web indicates an extremely long period) moved away from this project, for creative reasons, and created Joomla ... which since its birth met the positive opinion of many web developers, becoming one of the best known CMS in the world.

Joomla has a rapid and rapid evolution, it is characterized by a professional and specialized community and by a wide choice of extensions and high quality components

The secret of the success of this software lies in its simplicity, which makes it accessible even to those who are not web experts, but who at the same time are not satisfied with amateur and simplistic solutions, but want professional solutions.

Joomla's learning curve is steeper than Wordpress, but this allows you to limit the risks of finding yourself in the hands of alleged professionals who have no web skills. With Joomla it is not enough to install a CMS and 2 or 3 free plugins without customizations or without a minimum of expertise, and you can therefore avoid unpleasant encounters with the so-called “cuggini who know how to make websites”!

Joomla is dedicated to a more professional audience, who wants to make the site a serious business tool, while Wordpress often intercepts even amateurs and bloggers who want to write and publish sites without a strategic or serious use of the tool.

Like all other CMS, Joomla has the enormous advantage of allowing you to build sites or portals quickly, with professional features, with content that can be updated from a convenient administration panel.

With Joomla everything is customizable: from graphics to features, from the number of pages to the number of website development languages, from public areas to areas reserved for registered users, etc.

Like all other CMSs, Joomla allows in fact many functional extensions, both as regards the back end and the front end, choosing between free solutions and paid solutions, with assistance from the developers.

But Joomla, unlike other CMS, offers a basic native version already extremely rich and complete, which allows you to write content in 64 languages, manage friendly URLs, manage banners and customized messages for users, as well as the ability to access continuous security and system updates.

In addition to the basic, some professional and extremely useful Joomla extensions are:

 

Akeeba Backup , to have an easily installable backup of your website, both to move it from one hosting to another, and for security

Sh404Sef , for optimal management of URL, 404 and 301 redirect optimizations

Widgetkit , to insert customized maps, slideshows, photo galleries, content with special graphic effects, and much more.

Virtuemart , to transform your site into a functional e-commerce complete with most of the features necessary for online commerce

Its popularity has led to the creation of a community, with consequent online usability of tutorials and discussions on the functioning of the CMS, its plugins or components, with meetings of professionals throughout Italy and abroad. With this in mind, even in cases of problems or difficult to understand how it works, just do a search on the internet and contact the community to solve it quickly.

Joomla is a CMS that is suitable for all types of websites, both small and very complex ones, offering the possibility to create a company presentation site or an online store, manageable from an administration panel with various permissions. level, and with a gradual but extremely affordable learning curve, with a management that allows you to have your site always safe and protected from vulnerabilities!

Websites with Joomla or with WordPress? YES, just start on the rig

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