Joomla!
What is Joomla
Written by John Pitchers   
Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) used all over the world to power everything from simple, personal homepages to complex corporate web applications.

Joomla! can be used to easily manage every aspect of your website, from adding content and images to updating a product catalog or taking online reservations.
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E Commerce with Virtuemart
Written by John Pitchers   
Wednesday, 20 June 2007

Virtuemart is the leading e-commerce system for use with the Joomla Content Management System. More than 1.5 Million downloads so far and according to one estimate approximately 250,000 active online installations.

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Forums with Fireboard
Written by John Pitchers   
Wednesday, 20 June 2007
Fireboard is a fully integrated forum solution for Joomla. It can be installed just like any other component with only a few clicks.
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Manage Downloads with DocMan
Written by John Pitchers   
Saturday, 04 August 2007
DOCMan is an open source document management and download system for Joomla! With this component you can manage documents across categories and make them available for download.
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Image Galleries with zOOm!
Written by John Pitchers   
Saturday, 04 August 2007
zOOm Media Gallery is a gallery system that can store images (photos), video files (all streaming formats supported), audio files (with mp3 playback) and documents (Word and PDF files). It's clear why zOOm is the premier gallery chose for Joomla! systems.
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Add Bling with Mootools and other scripts
Written by John Pitchers   
Saturday, 04 August 2007
Because Joomla is written in PHP and MySQL it means that it is very easy to extend and add extra functionality and features. Across the web there are many web extensions and addons that can be purchased or downloaded for free and used in the development of your site. Following are some examples used in some of my recent projects.
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Who is Joomla right for?
Written by John Pitchers   
Sunday, 12 August 2007
Joomla was designed to make management of your website easy. It's financially viable because it is open source. The templating and tremendous range of 3rd party add ons mean it can be customised in infinite ways.
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Image Galleries with Imagevue
Written by John Pitchers   
Sunday, 09 December 2007
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With out a doubt, this is the most beautiful image gallery component I've ever seen. It's a stand alone Flash gallery application. But, I just had to build a component for it and use it within Joomla.

Stay tuned, my first site using this gallery will be rolled out in a few weeks. Click read more for a demo of the gallery.
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