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Written by John Pitchers
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Monday, 13 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.
It's the perfect solution for;
- Small Businesses who need a cost effective web solution that they can manage on a consistent basis.
- Larger organisations who need to allocate different levels of access to staff.
- Church groups who want to post events and sermons online.
- Non-profit organisations
- Schools who need to post information and newsletters on a regular basis.
- Community groups who want online events calendars and photo galleries.
- Online businesses who need an ecommerce system integrated with forums and web content.
Who Joomla is not right for?
When you use a Content Management System like Joomla, a lot of the
functionality is predesigned. For example content is organised into
Sections, Categories and Articles, User details are stored in a
particular format, content articles are made up of intro text and main
body text, etc. If you have very specific needs in terms of
functionality, presentation and data requirements then perhaps a custom
CMS solution is required. However, a custom built CMS solution could
take a team of developers months to design, program and test. And the
cost could be in excess of $30,000+.
Is it secure?
It is as secure as anything else on the web. Remember, Joomla is Open
Source and undergoing constant development by a community of
professional programmers. Several Working Groups review the needs,
requests and submissions from "the community" and build the
application to meet strict management principles and guidelines. Each
Working Group is responsible for a particular aspect of Joomla
essential for the projects growth and development. Open source software
is just as functional and secure, if not more so, than commercial
applications. You can read more about Joomla Working Groups here.
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