The Joomla! Content Management System

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Joomla! is one of the most widely used, powerful and flexible open source Content Management Systems (CMS) available, with a huge support and development base. It also has over 4000 extensions available to help you add functionality to your site. We believe Joomla! offers the most vibrant and best-supported Open Source CMS option available for not-for-profit organisations into the foreseeable future.

A Joomla! website consists of a series of CSS templates that control the look of the site, its layout, dynamic menus and pages which may be accessed by public or registered users as required. This means its easy to update the look of your whole site with the application of a new template!

Content is managed via a flexible and powerful administration system which is accessible to authorised users using a standard web browser. Control over varying levels of content and configuration can be authorised to management users by a front end admin interface which looks much like the normal site, with full back-end site configuration restricted to full administrative users. Content is maintained through simple to use forms.

A core development strategy of the Joomla! project is compliance with web standards for useability and accessibility. Recent releases have seen important steps in this direction and there is a stated intent to meet the new WCAG guidelines in a future release. Energetica has already implemented some fundamental accessibility tweaks to Joomla and can discuss your particular accessibility requirements.

Why use Joomla!?

Joomla! offers not for profit organisations some serious advantages;

  • It gives you access to a world class, multi-award winning and extensible CMS that works equally well for 20 page websites as for 1000 page online communities packed with Web 2.0 functionality!
  • It allows your website to grow with you by adding functionality from over 4000 Joomla extensions. These include tools for social networking, membership management, e-commerce, event management, blogging, commenting, photo gallery tools and much much more.
  • It saves you money as you avoid hefty licence fees for proprietary software. You pay us to manage the project, set up your site, configure your tools to meet your needs and then help you to use them. We can provide as little or as much training as you need!
  • It avoids 'vendor lock-in'! If you are not happy with our service there are plenty of other Joomla developers in Australia and internationally - so we have to stay on our toes. This also gives your website greater continuity across its life cycle.

Contact us about how we can help you use this powerful CMS for your new website.