What is Joomla!

In the past, websites were designed and maintained by web-design companies, who translated your desired message and information into a website. Updating the information on the website would often require knowledge of technical things like HTML, CSS and image manipulation.

Nowadays the information on a website can be stored, managed and presented by the owners of the site - without any specialist knowledge. Updating is carried out via a standard web-browser by the people who generate the information.

Using the power of the webserver, a Content Management System stores all your information and media in databases and allows you to change the information easily and keep it up to date.

Joomla is powerful Content Management System (CMS) that is easy to use and manage, putting you directly in control of all of your content, media, functionality and information on your website.

Some Content Management Systems are difficult to setup and manage, with a costly purchase price and ongoing maintenance. Joomla is not like that at all. Joomla has been developed for the masses under the GNU/GPL license which ensures that it remains freely accessible to all. It's easy to install and administrate. Joomla users don't even need to know HTML or even be a web designer to produce, manage and publish content once it's up and running.