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Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content
Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything
from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to
install, simple to manage, and reliable.
What is Joomla! ?
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Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will help
you build websites and other powerful online applications. Best of all,
Joomla! is an open source solution that is freely available to everybody.
Joomla! in Action
Joomla! is used all over the
world to power everything from simple, personal homepages to complex
corporate web applications. Here are just some of the ways people use our
software:
Joomla! can be used to easily
manage every aspect of your website, from adding content and images to
updating a product catalog or taking online reservations.
Joomla! for End Users
The basic Joomla! package is
designed to be easy to install, even for non-programmers. Most people have no
trouble getting our software up and running, and there is plenty of support
available for newbies. We have a growing, active community of more than
40,000 friendly users and developers on our forums eager to help.
Once Joomla! is installed and
running, it is simple for even non-technical users to add or edit content,
update images, and to manage the critical data that makes your company or
organization go. Anybody with basic word processing skills can easily learn
to manage a Joomla! site.
Via a simple, browser-based
interface you will be able to easily add new press releases or news items,
manage staff pages, job listings, product images, and create an unlimited
amount of sections or content pages on your site. You can try our simple demo
to get quick taste of what Joomla! is all about.
Taking Joomla! to the Next Level
Out of the box, Joomla! does a
great job of managing the content needed to make your website sing. But for
many people, the true power of Joomla! lies in the application framework that
makes it possible for thousands of developers around the world to create
powerful add-ons and extensions. Here are just some examples of the hundreds
of available extensions:
You can find more examples over
at our growing Joomla! Extensions Directory. Prepare to be amazed at the
amount of exciting work produced by our active developer community!
Joomla! for Developers
Many companies or organizations
have requirements that go beyond what is available in the basic Joomla!
package or in a freely available extension.
Thankfully, Joomla! offers a
powerful application framework that makes it easy for developers to create
sophisticated add-ons that extend the power of Joomla! into virtually
unlimited directions.
Using the core framework,
developers can easily build:
If your company or organization
hires a third party Joomla! developer or builds in-house software using the
Joomla! framework, you are building on an open platform that does not tie you
to any one developer or to a proprietary, closed application.
You can learn more about
developing on the Joomla! framework over at our developer’s network. The
beauty of Joomla! is that you can leverage our framework and user interface
to deliver applications to your end users in a familiar, powerful
environment.
So what’s the catch?
There is no catch. Joomla! is
free, open, and available to all under the GPL
license. We don’t claim to be perfect, and can’t promise to meet every
requirement in the world. But for many web applications, our software is
perfectly suited for the job. We are adding great new features with each
release, and with the help and advice of our incredible user community we
plan on delivering award-winning software for years to come.
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Please make a donation if you find our software useful and want to support
the continued development of Joomla! Your donations help us by financially
supporting developer conferences, presentation materials and travel expenses
for things like the LinuxWorld Expo, as well as any other expenses that might
come up as we develop and promote the award winning product we all love.
Why Open Source Matters?
You will see that our donations
all go to an account at Open Source Matters (OSM). OSM is the legal entity we
founded to provide legal protection and manage the assets of the project. In
this case, OSM accepts all incoming donations, so we have only one legal
entity to manage.
Donate Using PayPal
If you have a major credit card
(Visa, MasterCard, American Express) or a PayPal account, donating is easy.
Just click the image below to donate:
Donations from Outside of the United States
We welcome donations from
anywhere in the world and in any currency. PayPal accepts a number of
international currencies.
Donations by Other Methods
If you wish to donate to Joomla
via direct bank deposit or mail a cheque or money order, please use the contact
us on the Open Source Matters site for details.
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We would like to thank those
individuals and businesses that are actively supporting Joomla!
Founded in early
2000, Rochen has focused on providing extremely reliable web hosting
solutions for over half a decade. Rochen is not only the hosting partner for
the official Joomla! website, but they were also nominated alongside Joomla!
as a finalist in the category of "Best Linux/Open Source ISP/Internet
Host" at the LinuxWorld Expo Awards held in London, UK in October 2005.
As well as hosting thousands of websites powered by Joomla! Rochen also offer
a complete range of web hosting services from shared and reseller hosting
plans all the way up to fully managed dedicated servers and clusters.
Rochen and their
team have been instrumental in getting the Open Source Matters (OSM) and
Joomla! websites off the ground, providing us with the managed cluster of
servers that we now use. To find out more about Rochen and the web hosting
services they offer please visit: www.rochenhost.com.
Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC)
The Software Freedom Law Center
provides legal representation and other law related services to protect and
advance Free and Open Source Software. They have been instrumental in
providing legal guidance as Joomla! advances to the next stage of this
project.
VA Software - SourceForge
VA Software is at the center of
the Open Source technology revolution through:
If you or your business is interested in sponsoring
Joomla, please send an email to sponsors@opensourcematters.org
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FAQ's - Whats in a Name?
1. What does Joomla
mean?
The name Joomla
is a phonetic spelling for the Swahili word "Jumla", which means
"all together" or "as a whole".
2. Why was it
chosen?
It was chosen as the entire Core Team was unanimous
in their commitment to protecting the interests of the project and community.
3. How was it
chosen?
This name was chosen from thousands of
recommendations by the community, and even went through an arduous review
session by branding and marketing professionals who also felt that Joomla was
the best choice of the lot.
1. Is Joomla! a fork
of Mambo?
Some call it a fork. Some call it a spoon. Some
call it an entire table setting. Whatever your philisophical persuasion, the
facts are that Joomla is a continuation of the work of the Development Team
which unanimously resigned from the Mambo project in August 2005.
2. Why start at
Version 1.0?
We decided to reset the version number to 1.0 to
reduce the confusion that could be created by having similar version numbers
between Joomla! and Mambo. It is not necessarily a reflection on the fact that
the project is immature, but rather that it is new and will be different from
Mambo. Other projects, such as Firefox, have successfully delivered mature
Version 1.0 products.
3. How do the
versions compare?
Joomla version 1.0 is derived from Mambo 4.5.2.3
but includes many additional bug fixes and security patches. Joomla version 1.5
is an extensive refactoring of the API as is Mambo version 4.6 to its codebase.
Both applications continue maintain a similar user inferface (look and feel),
similar default component and module sets. Both Joomla 1.5 and Mambo 4.6 will
include internationisation support. Joomla will use an easy-to-use 'ini' format
for their translation files while Mambo uses the 'gettext' format. Joomla 1.5
will correctly support the UTF-8 character set. Joomla 1.5 also includes many
new features such as additional authentication models (LDAP, Gmail, etc),
xml-rpc client-server support. It also natively supports database drivers for
MySQL 4.1+ (on PHP 5) and has improved support for MySQL 5 as well as the
groundings to support other database engines.
4. Are patches for
Joomla! and Mambo interchangeable?
No. The two projects are maintained independently
by different development teams.
5. Will Mambo addons
continue to work in Joomla! ?
Addons (templates, components, modules, mambots and
language packs) designed for Mambo 4.5.2 will generally run on Joomla 1.0. It
is possible that some Mambo addons will run on Joomla 1.5. Mambo addons
designed for version 4.6 will likely not run on Joomla, nor will extensions
designed for Joomla 1.5 run on Mambo.
6. Can I just patch
my existing Mambo site to make it Joomla! ?
No. The rebranding affects almost all files so it
is not possible to patch just a few files.
7. Can I use my
Mambo database for Joomla! ?
Yes. Joomla! 1.0 will be able to use a Mambo 4.5.2
database. It's likely that Joomla! 1.5 will be able to use a Mambo 4.6
database, with appropriate upgrading, but at this stage we cannot be certain.
8. What happens in
the future when Joomla! and Mambo diverge?
That's a hard question to answer because we don't
know.
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