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Phone: 844 208-4034 (corporate only)
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About Joomla
Joomla is a popular content management system (CMS) launched in the year 2005. The open source CMS is written in PHP and uses MySQL for storing data. Released under the GNU General Public License, Joomla is supported by the non-profit organisation Open Source Matters. The software has been downloaded more than 90 million times and currently powers over 2 million websites. It is supported by over 1,200 volunteers. Joomla is available in 74 languages, including Chinese, German, French, Arabic, Russian, Hindi and Japanese.
The content management framework is flexible and makes it easy to deploy small and large websites, including blogs, magazines, non-profit websites, religious websites and ecommerce portals. There are more than 10,000 extensions and templates to help launch any kind of website. Visit the officialย websiteย to download the latest version of Joomla. The various kinds of extensions you will find include galleries, social share, article elements, popups, analytics, contact forms, shopping cart, payment gateways, billing, menu systems, ads, user management, real estate, booking/reservations, mailing/newsletter, to name a few.
For an overview on the features, with Joomla you enjoy search engine optimization tools, design features, publishing tools, WYSIWYG editor, article management, frontend editing, media manager, syndication, RSS feed, auto update, cache management and much more. The Documentation section on the Joomla homepage offers a number of resources for installation, upgrade, migration or other technical queries. There is the Joomla forum for those who would like to interact with developers and other Joomla users. You can discuss installation, SEO, performance and security related issues on the forum.
If you would like to launch a quick Joomla-based website. You can make use of the Joomla.com free website service. Mobile-friendly websites can be launched in seconds. However, note that the free websites will be live as a sub-domain.
