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Joomla
Another top five CMS program is called Joomla, Joomla! Is a free open source content management system like the e107 and Drupal. The CMS is written in PHP because of the publishing purpose for putting your content up on the web and it uses MySQL database. Joomla! Is the result of a fork. A fork in the world of CMS means that when a creator of a project takes a copy of a source code from one other piece of software and then uses it to develop from it separately so it does result in a definitive piece of software.
Joomla! is a very popular and is used on millions of websites from a simple blog to big corporate site. The package has various parts that are supposed to be as modular as it can be. It does allow extensions and integrations to be made in the core very easily. The extensions are called Plug ins, these Plug ins are background extensions that allow the program to accept new functions. The other great features that Joomla! has to offer are page caching, RSS Feeds, pages that can be printed. News Flashes, blogs, polls, website searches and different languages.
One of biggest plus point for Joomla is size of it’s community. You can find tons of free/commercial templates for Joomla giving unique look to your site. There are currently over 1800 3rd party extensions for Joomla both free and commercial.
In order for Joomla!, to be run successfully you will need to have the system requirements of the following PHP 4.2 x or above, MySQL 3.32 or above and Apache 1.3 or above. It is highly recommended that you make sure that you have MySQL, XML and Zlib functioning with your PHP in order to get the program to run. It is recommended that when you download Joomla! 1.0.13 that you upgrade because it is a security release. When you are running the upgrade, add extra security to your computer to ensure safety during the upgrade.
One common problem that Users have with Joomla is that it does not creat search engine friendly urls by default even though there are number of 3rd party extensions for it (Joomla 1.5 will fix this issue and have sef urls by default).
This CMS is also new, it has been around since 2005 but that really isn’t a long time. Though this software company has not been without the issues. We mentioned that this CMS was created as a result as a fork from Mambo when Mambo decided to split from Mambo Foundation and start Joomla.
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