What Does it Take to Build A Great Joomla Site?

Trent Downs asked:


These days it’s becoming much easier to create your own website. If you want a site that is search engine friendly, very usable, looks professional and one that you can maintain without years of training you might think would be impossible.

Content Management Systems (CMS) are software designed to make maintaining a website easier and less demanding for the owner or even the developer. There are many CMS that you can choose from. Some of these cost upwards of $1000, but there are many free options.

Most systems will cripple your ability to get the most value from them by having some major issues.

Joomla! doesn’t have those problems

And that’s where Joomla! has the edge! It offers seemingly limitless flexibility. Since it’s market entry as an Open Source (and therefore FREE) Content Management System in 2005, Joomla! (which used to be named “Mambo”) is now used worldwide to build and maintain the simplest personal websites to the most complex and sophisticated corporate websites. This unique feature set have won it several awards in the last few years, including beating Firefox as best open source project.

Anyone can make use of the powerful features very easily. Joomla is just as adept at simple tasks like adding new content as it is at running large ecommerce sites, download sites, or reservation booking systems.

What types of sites use Joomla!

Corporate sites, schools, newspapers, magazines, churches, hotels, ecommerce sites and more all make use of Joomla to power their sites.

Joomla! or Commercial System?

The biggest difference between Joomla and a commercial system is you don’t have to pay a penny for all of this power! The other thing you won’t find with any paid system is the huge community of developers offering free extensions – over 4000 at the time of writing – all built to make your site even better by extending Joomla’s capabilities. There is also a large, activity community where users all help each other get the best Joomla experience possible.

You Need This Even If You Own A Site!

Whether it is a static or dynamic website, as long as you DO NOT HAVE the personal or in-house company competencies to effectively manage your website to get the results you want – that is to say you still have to DEPEND on EXTERNAL expertise to maintain or update parts of it – you WILL benefit greatly by migrating to a Joomla! based website.

In today’s fast paced, information driven world, results-oriented business owner stand to benefit greatly by building cost-effective and highly maintainable Joomla! websites that they can have 100% control over – and NOT need to call the web designer back for.

Does Joomla Have Any Specific Hosting Requirements?

Joomla does not have any outrageous requirements for hosting, and you can run it on most standard web hosting plans, but that doesn’t mean you should. You should be on the lookout for a host that knows Joomla really well and has optimized their servers for Joomla sites. You also want to avoid hosts that do what is known as “oversell” their servers. These hosts can generally be recognized by offering hundred of gigabytes of storage and bandwidth (or even unlimited) for just a few dollars per month. These hosts have to put so many sites on each server that your site is almost guaranteed to run slower than it should. The average Joomla site will probably never use more than 200-500 megabytes of storage.



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