What is Joomla CMS?

Joomla CMS, Like WordPress, is a content management system that can be used by your company to facilitate the efficient organisation of content on your companies webite. Origianlly design by develpers, for developers Joomla is, at the present time, a more powerful CMS than WordPress and is often used to manage larger and more complicated web develpment projects.

How does Joomla CMS work?

Like WordPress, the Joomal Backend is accessed via a secure, password protected, login screen. Joomla allows multi-user access so changes can be made anyone that has the correct autherisation. Different levels of access can be asigned and all changes made to your website in Joomla can be tracked. As Joomla is a more powerful application than WordPress out of the box, and has been designed more with develepoers in mind, the backend may seem slightly more complicated at first. Joomla has steeper learning curve than WordPress but the rewards once it is mastered, are greater for your business.

Joomla CMS and Sweetlime

Many companies and organizations have requirements that go beyond what is available with a basic WordPress instalation. The main difference between WordPress and Joomla is scalability. Whereby WordPress was origional created to be a blogging platform, and has evolved to become a solution for simple content managemnet, Joomla was written by web developers for web developers. Sweetlime uses Joomla CMS when a client presents us with a project that will require significant and frequent revisions, will need to contain a large volume of date or a lot of different types of data, or will require specialized functionality. In short, we use Joomla for projects that are just that little bit bigger. Joomla is highly extensible and can be expanded easily to cover the vast majority of our clients reqauirments. Joomla’s powerful application framework makes it easy for developers to create sophisticated add-ons that extend the power of Joomla into virtually unlimited directions. Most of these add-ons are freely available and can be used to add true functionality to your web presence.

Some examples of websites that can be built utilizing the core Joomla framework:

• Custom product catalogs
• Integrated e-commerce systems
• Business directories
• Reservation systems
• Communication tools

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