What is Joomla?
Joomla is an award-winning, open-source content management system, which enables the development of web site and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla one of the most popular content management systems available.
- Joomla’s roots go back to 2000, so it is well-tested and well understood.
- Joomla was developed using PHP and MySQL, two extremely popular, open-source technologies that are used to power millions of web sites worldwide.
- Joomla has an active community of over 200,000 users and contributors.
- There are close to 5,000 extensions and add-ons available for Joomla.
- Joomla is in use on millions of web sites worldwide and is used by many well-known organizations, including MTV Networks, LA Weekly, IHOP, Harvard University, Citibank, Outdoor Photographer (magazine), and the United Nations.
Our Experience with Joomla
ViaComp has been using Joomla for web site development since 2006. Since that time, we have developed and/or assisted with over 50 Joomla based web sites. We are committed to the Joomla project and, in fact, will be releasing several extensions and templates within the next year.