Joomla is a Content Management System (CMS).

Joomla has one of the most user friendly administration panels. Because it is so user friendly, it helps users to create and moderate a best designed website for you and for your company. Even those who do not have programming knowledge can manage their own website after following some simple instructions.

Users can fill up the website with components, modules and plug-ins which we call extensions, explained later in this article. There are pre-developed extensions (components, modules and plug-ins) that you can download from the joomla official website; www.joomla.org and even from many other websites for free, or for a fee. You can choose extensions according to your requirements and the design of your website.

In Joomla CMS you get a page called Administration Page from which you can add/change content and other functions which affect the content of the website. The administration panel can be used to control a diversity of functions and processes. Here is a simple example of a job or help wanted posting component:

After the job component is installed, it gives you the feature to create a job application. Applicants can then fill out the application online.  From the admin panel the applicants who submitted their application online can be reviewed and managed.

This is the default Joomla administration login page. You can access it, adding “administration” after the websites name.

www.website/administration This is what the default Joomla admin page looks a like.

There are many things that you can do with the administration panel. You can install components, modules, and plug-ins. You can install templates to the website so you can change the whole layout of the website in a click.

Another example component is an image gallery component. Using the Joomla Image Gallery Component, you can add images to the site and add a caption to it using the interface, then the image and the caption will be displayed where you want.

All the content and the images which you see in the website can be changed from this administration panel. You never need to consult anyone to edit the content of your website. As a web development company our objective is to help our clients be as independent of us as possible so that they can manage their own content.

You can download whatever the components, modules, and plug-ins that you need to enrich your website according to your needs and  requirements.

This is a module which you can download from the website, notice that it is mentioned as “non-commercial” which means it is for free. The “M”, that you see near the extension name at the top means that it is a module. If there was a “C”, it means it is a component, and “P” means a plug-in.

Since Joomla is done with PHP and HTML, you can create your own modules, components and plug-ins, or hire a company like iBCScorp to create them for you. With some basic knowledge of programming you can even do simple changes to the website. You take your website from basic to advanced with the features they provide. You can make the website more Search engine friendly and you can do many more things easier and faster than you expect. Try it and you will see the difference.