In case you haven’t heard of Joomla before, it is an open source content management system. Whether you are creating a personal homepage, a small business web site, an online magazine or a full blown e-commerce website, Joomla is flexible and powerful enough to accomodate your needs.
If you still aren’t convinced that Joomla is the right platform for your online project, let’s take a look at the top five reasons that you should make the decision to use Joomla:
It’s Free: Everyone loves things that are free, and Joomla falls directly into this category. Unlike an expensive piece of software, you really have nothing to risk by downloading Joomla and giving it a test run for yourself.
The Extensions: If I had to choose just one feature that makes Joomla such an amazing platform, I think my choice would be the extensions that are available. Currently, there are over four thousand different extensions available that can be downloaded, and this is a number that will just continue to grow overtime.
The reason that I would pick the extensions as the single most persuasive reason to use Joomla is because they make it so much easier to start and finish a new project. Instead of needing to start completely from scratch, there is a good chance that regardless of what you want to do with Joomla, there are one or more extensions that will allow you to get everything setup in just a short amount of time.
The Community: Although the extensions are my top pick out of the numerous reasons to use Joomla, these extensions would not exist if it wasn’t for the very active Joomla community, so in reality this reason is just as important as the previous one.
Although it would be impossible to get an accurate count of the entire Joomla community (because there are so many unofficial communities and websites that are spread across a multitude of languages), the official Joomla forum has close to two hundred and fifty thousand registered users. With this many people who are passionate about the Joomla project, it’s easy to understand why it has become such a powerful platform.
The Documentation: The problem with many platforms that allow you to build web sites or other web-based applications is that it can be difficult to figure out how to do certain things with these platforms as a result of their lack of documentation. However, this is not something that you have to worry about when you use Joomla. The Official Joomla Documentation is a collaborative Wiki, and it covers everything from the Absolute Beginners Guide to Frequently Sought Information to even very advanced topics.
It’s Open Source: In case you haven’t caught on yet, all of the reasons on this list relate in some way to the fact that Joomla is an open source project. Because the Joomla project is open instead of closed, you never have to worry about problems like no new features being added or support suddenly
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