What is Joomla

Joomla is a free, award-winning content management system written in PHP which allows users to easily publish their content on the world wide web and intranets. Joomla is created as an open-source project where individuals and teams contribute their skills to its development as well as its supporting systems.
While Joomla is packed with features, its greatest quality is that it is extremely extensible. Because of its extensible structure, there aren't many things you cannot do with Joomla. A short list of some important features of Joomla are the following:
• Page Caching
• Web Indexing
• RSS Feeds
• Printable Page Versions
• Newsflashes
• Blogs
• Forums
• Polls
• Calendars
• Website Searching
• Language Internationalization

Making website management simple.

The basic Joomla! package is designed to be easy to install, even for non-programmers. Most people have no trouble getting the software running, and there is plenty of support available for newbies. We have a growing, active community including 1,000s of friendly users and developers eager to help and learn from each other.
One of the best things about Joomla! is how easy it makes adding or editing content, updating images and multimedia, and managing critical data that makes your company or organization operate. Anybody with basic word processing skills can easily learn to manage a Joomla! site! Via a simple, browser-based interface you will be able to easily add new press releases or news items, manage staff pages, job listings, product images, and create an unlimited amount of sections or content pages on your site.
For many people, the true power of Joomla! lies in the application framework that makes it possible for thousands of developers around the world to create powerful add-ons and extensions to this robust content management system. Here are just some examples of the hundreds of available extensions:
• Dynamic form builders
• Business/organizational directories
• Document management
• Image and multimedia galleries
• E-commerce and shopping cart engines
• Forums and chat software
• Calendars
• Blogging software
• Directory services
• Email newsletters
• Data collection and reporting tools
• Banner advertising systems
• Subscription services
• & many, many more…