Joomla! is a free, open source content management system for publishing content on the world wide web and intranets. The system includes features such as page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalization. Joomla is licensed under the GPL, and is the result of a fork of Mambo.
It is written with the PHP programming language and uses the MySQL database by default. Joomla is an innovative Content Management System that helps web designers design and build state-of-the-art websites even if they have had little or no prior experience with website building. With an abundance of powerful online applications, Joomla is a boon to amateur and professional web designers everywhere.
What are Joomla templates?
Joomla templates are a series of html, php, xml and image files that serve as basic foundation designs within the Joomla Content Management System. You can avail of several pre-made Joomla templates that are available freely or the internet or you could custom-make your own Joomla template for absolute creative control over the presentation of the content and the overall appearance of the website.
Using Joomla templates, web designers as well as end-users can easily and effortlessly manage and maintain dynamic websites regardless of their level of proficiency or knowledge of the code.
How Joomla templates work
When the content is inserted into a Joomla template, it inherits the menus, link styles, colors, navigation and text size of the template, undergoing a radical transformation in appearance.
When you use a pre-made Joomla template, you are given various options for editing “css” and “html”. CSS or cascading style sheets are what control the look and feel elements of your website and html refers to the file that controls the positioning of the text.
Graphics are typically linked in the html file and users have the option of using their own graphic image by simply changing the reference to the image of their choice. It has to be noted however that if the size of the graphic is different from that of the original, the appearance of the site could undergo some unpredictable changes.
All you need to do is select a Joomla template from amongst the many freely available on the internet and just implement the necessary changes to your website. With just a click of a button you can convert your website into a rich text editor right in the browser itself.
How Joomla templates help
Joomla templates help you design and build new websites and upgrade existing ones without the need to hire expensive web designers. Joomla templates make it easy to insert additional pages, audio and video and also to add or edit text, pictures and menus.
Flash joomla templates can be instantly and easily applied to alter the color, positioning and graphics of the site without changing the content. This gives your website a brand new appearance while leaving your content intact; just the way you want to.
The multi-user and multi-environment that joomla offers, allows several users to interact and contribute towards the development of any joomla-based website. The users can be allocated to different groups, each of which has different privileges. The “What You See Is What You Get” or WYSISYG editor facilitates online editing of content.
Joomla templates that utilize Cascading Style Sheets or CSS help users generate layouts without the need of using tables. This helps the web site load faster and makes it easier to maintain. It also makes it easier to authenticate the template code to the atandards set by the World Wide Web Consortium
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6:19 am on February 8th, 2008
that was an awesome post. seems worth trying out.
11:07 pm on February 21st, 2008
Good intro to the system. Joomla is an excellent system and still my free CMS of choice. Some quick additional pointers - keep up with the bug/security lists, as ever, open source means holes are exploited quickly - the forums on Joomla are the best place for this. Spend time scanning the Joomla Extensions directory (http://extensions.joomla.org/), while Joomla is relatively straightfoward to code for, there are 1,000s of off-the-shelf (free!) plugin modules/components and bots for it that will mean you don’t have to do anything (communities, forms, menus, shops, feeders, etc. etc) - if you want something from your CMS, it’s likely someone else does too, and with Joomla it’s likely someone’s already coded it!
6:30 am on April 2nd, 2008
Good intro to the system. Joomla is an excellent system and still my free CMS of choice. Some quick additional pointers
6:36 am on June 15th, 2008
relly , joomla art’s site , hace beatifull theme. but the matter is we have not understand css.
8:45 pm on September 3rd, 2008
Joomla is only a good cms if you have the right support and they know how to make it security wise.
I see so many joomla sites get hack because i automatic install ens.
2:37 pm on May 23rd, 2009
Joomla is getting bigger, stronger and smarter! I ‘ll be waiting for the 1.6 release in which there would be lots of improvements and functionality