Joomla review: what you need to know about Joomla

Joomla Review 

Joomla is a free and open-source content management system(CMS) for publishing web content developed by open source matters,inc. It is built on a model-view-controller web application framework that can be used to independently of the CMS. 

In this this Joomla review,  you will know everything about JOOMLA so as to help you make a decision. 

Joomla is one of the web's most rated and used open source CMS. However, does joomla hold up to it being one if the best? Read on to find out.

JOOMLA REVIEW: HOW IT WORKS 

Joomla helps users create,manage and modify content on a website without the need for specialized technical knowledge. In simpler terms, it is a website builder  which engages in from scratch-to-finish activities necessary to create a functional website I.e coding.

And as a beginner, you will want to build your website to your costumers taste knowing quite well that you have minimal or no knowledge about coding, then joomla is just the best for you. Joomla can also serve her user to create a community or a network with a membership,

area, newsroom, forums, articles, input from external authors.

      "Once,you understand how it works and it doesn't require the knowledge of HTML. You can set articles to expire after a time ,activate dates,author name e.t.c"

WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT JOOMLA

As a beginner,it will be noteworthy to know that:

•   Joomla has multilingual capability built-in:This works very well but it is not that simple. You have to follow a certain order of actions to make it work,but it is very powerful.

• Control management: Joomla's simplified three-tiered system of articles make organizing the content a snap. This can be organized in anyway, website users can rate articles,e-mails them to a friend, or automatically save as PDF. It also provides for safekeeping e-mail cloaking (protects email addresses from spambots).

• User management: Joomla has a built-in registration system that allows users to configure personal options. Joomla also provides multiple user groups with various types of permissions on what users are allowed to access,edit ,publish and administrate.

• Media manager: Media manager is the tool for easy manage of media files .i.e image.

• RSS: With joomla,it is very easy to syndicate site content, allowing users to subscribe to new content in their RSS reader as well as integrate RSS feeds from other sources and aggregate them all on the website.

• Template management: This is one of the most important features for users. In joomla,templates are a powerful way to make the site look exactly the way you want and either use a single template for each site section.

ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF JOOMLA:

1. Joomla can be used to make any kind of website because it is flexible and reliable.
2. Joomla is so good for social networking and e-commerce because it has all three-types of social networks supported. E.g. twitter.

DISADVANTAGES OF JOOMLA

1.  Importing articles from one site to another is not as easy as in other CMS.
2. Joomla brings out new major upgrades on a regular basis. This upgrades break a lot of extensions and migrating from older versions , is not an easy task especially when you have a complex setup with membership system, forum e.t.c

CONCLUSION ON JOOMLA REVIEW 

As noted before, Joomla is somewhere in the middle when compared to WordPress and other CMS, because it is much more complex than word press allowing for greater customization and better control over your website.

Joomla is full of options such as the search keywords tracking and banner management with click logging, these are great additions not often seen in open source content manage systems.

We also have a Joomla review on our YouTube channel. You can watch below!