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On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Donna Marie Vincent < [email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/240114/five_reasons_to_try_joomla_for_content_management.html > > Five Reasons to Try Joomla for Content Management > Now 25 million downloads strong, this free Web content management system > has plenty to offer small and medium-sized businesses. > By Katherine Noyes > Sep 15, 2011 2:08 PM > > There are numerous Web content management systems available out there to > serve the needs of companies large and small, including numerous free and > open source options. One that's figured prominently in the news this week, > however, is Joomla, which is making headlines for the fact that it recently > hit 25 million downloads. > > Some 2.7 percent of the Web now runs on Joomla, according to research firm > W3Techs, which translates into a market share of roughly 10 percent. > WordPress is currently the market leader, running almost 15 percent of all > websites, while Drupal comes in third with 1.7 percent of the Web. Though > Joomla is the relative newcomer among these three leaders, it boasts > Citibank, eBay, General Electric, Harvard University, Ikea, McDonald's and > Sony among its enterprise users. > > Does your company run a website? If so, here are a few reasons you may want > to check out Joomla for yourself. > > 1. Powerful Core Features > > A three-tiered content management system and WYSIWYG editor along with > tools for managing syndication, templates, menus, integrated help and more > all combine to make Joomla a robust platform for creating and building a > variety of websites and Web-enabled applications. Recently added in the > current version 1.7 are the ability to perform one-click updates and > multilanguage improvements. > > 2. More Than 8,000 Extensions > > Thanks to the ongoing efforts of a vital developer community, there are > currently more than 8,000 free and paid extensions available to help you > customize Joomla. A birthdays module, for example, shows a list of upcoming > birthdays for a website's members; the Acajoom module, meanwhile, offers a > powerful newsletter component. > > 3. Frequent Updates, Long-Term Support > > Whereas Joomla 1.6 took three years to develop, the project introduced a > six-month release cycle earlier this year, allowing new features to be added > more regularly. Every third release, however, is considered a Long Term > Support release (LTS), offering 18 months of security updates and bug fixes. > > 4. It's Free and Easy > > Joomla is available for download at no cost, and it's designed to be easy > to use for novices and experts alike. There's even an online guide available > for absolute beginners. > > 5. It's Open Source > > Since its inception in 2005, Joomla has been 100 percent community owned > and operated. The software is free, open, and available to anyone under the > GPL license. For business users, that brings a number of considerable > benefits, as I've noted before. > > Brian Proffitt, my colleague at Computerworld, recently compared Joomla > with WordPress and Drupal and concluded that WordPress is best for > beginners, Drupal is best for the most complex websites and Joomla is a good > middle-of-the-road option that's powerful but still easy to use. > > You can see for yourself by taking Joomla for a free test drive via an > online demo or the Joomla JumpBox, which lets you run the software locally > with a pre-built and pre-configured virtual application on Windows, Mac or > Linux. > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > -- I have a new email address: [email protected] Member of www.JoomlaNYC.org Trainer for www.JoomlaTraining.com Sponsor for www.JoomlaDayNYC.com Come to JoomlaDayNYC.com - 2011 - October 22 & October 23 www.RytechSites.com Dynamic Websites for your company!
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