An Introduction To Joomla, The CMS Trusted By Millions For Their Website
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In This Article, I will take you through Joomla as a Content Management System (CMS)
What is CMS
Content Management Systems (CMS) are great options for website development, and for simple or complex website solutions. If you are considering a CMS, Joomla! might well be the system you are looking for. With Joomla! you can build a simple website or blog, or build complex applications like a membership site, an e-commerce store, a movie or music database, and more.
What is Joomla?
Joomla is a free and open source content management system (CMS) to build websites and powerful online applications. With powerful core features, ease of use and extensibility, Joomla has become one of the most popular website software.
CMS stands for content management system, the software keeps track of every piece of content on your website. Content can be simple text, photos, music, video … It is easy to you that does not require any technical skill or knowledge.
What are the reasons to use Joomla as CMS
Because a CMS works in a dynamic manner, retrieving your writing from a database and incorporating it into your current template to build your page, there are other things it can do while it is at it. Your main content is integrated into the ‘central’ part of the page but around the periphery of the page other ‘modules’ can be carrying out related tasks. Lists of ‘most popular’, ‘most recent’ or ‘related’ articles can be integrated into your page, polls allowing people to vote on issues, newsletter sign-up can be integrated. There are modules for PayPal donations, etc.
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Joomla History
Joomla was the result of a fork of Manboo on August 17, 2005.
Joomla 1.0 was released on September 22, 2005
Joomla 1.5 was released on January 22, 2008
Joomla 1.6 was released on January 10, 2011
Joomla 1.7 was released on July 19, 2011
Joomla 2.5 was released on January 24, 2012
Joomla 3.0 was released on September 27, 2012
Joomla 3.1 was released on April 24, 2013
Joomla 3.2 was released on November 6, 2013
Joomla 3.3 was released on April 30, 2014
Joomla Elements
Joomla extensions extend the functionality of Joomla websites. There are 5 types of extensions: components, modules, plugins, templates, and languages. Each of these extensions handles a specific function.
Templates – Templates determine the layout, style or look and feel and layout of a site.
Components – the largest and most complex extensions. Most components have two parts: a site part and an administrator part. Every time a Joomla page loads, one component is called to render the main page body.
Plugins – are advanced extensions to be registered to handle that event execute. For example, a plugin could be used to block user-submitted articles and filter text.
Modules – render pages in Joomla. They are linked to Joomla components to display new content. Joomla modules look like boxes, such as the search or login module.
Languages – are very simple extensions that can either be used as a core part or as an extension.
This is just an introduction to joomla, read our next article on how to install and use jooml.
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