What Is Joomla!®?

Joomla!® is a very popular content management system used by large and small websites and is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone. "Out of the box" it provides robust user management, content authoring, flexible content publishing and display and easy to use site management interfaces.

Joomla has a large developer community both open source and commercial with almost 5,000 "extensions" to the basic platform. These extensions provide capabilities of:

• social networking,
• media galleries and streaming,
• blogs,
• user feedback and discussion forums
• ecommerce
• and many vertical solutions such as CRM, real estate etc.

Here are just a few examples of Web sites that use Joomla:

• MTV Networks Quizilla (Social networking) - http://www.quizilla.com
• IHOP (Restaurant chain) - http://www.ihop.com
• Harvard University (Educational) - http://gsas.harvard.edu
• Citibank (Financial institution intranet) - Not publicly accessible
• The Green Maven (Eco-resources) - http://www.greenmaven.com
• Outdoor Photographer (Magazine) - http://www.outdoorphotographer.com
• PlayShakespeare.com (Cultural) - http://www.playshakespeare.com
• Senso Interiors (Furniture design) - http://www.sensointeriors.co.za

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