Website Builders

Joomla! is a free open source award-winning content management system (CMS) which enables you to build your website and publish your content on the World Wide Web.

Open Source means that anyone is allowed to contribute to its development and it is not "owned" by any group but managed and directed by a commitee or group.

Joomla is easy to use and once installed, any non technical user can add freely available features to it, add or edit articles etc. It has been designed in modular for sho you can add or remove modules or plugins.

The ability to extend it to any level you like, and availability of thousands of both free and commercial plugins and modules to upgrade it have made Joomla the most popular website software available.

Things you can do with Joomla includ:

• Switch or change the entire theme or layout of your site in minutes. Htere are several high quality templates of professional standard.
• Have differenct layouts for different pages
• Easily reposition or hide page modules to change the appearance
• Publish blogs, articles,
• Automatically print articles or create PDF's' of pages with a single buttton click
• Include newsflashes, banners, adsense, adverts, polls, website searches
• Set articles to be published on a particluar date and to cease being published on another set date
• Classify all your content into sections and categories for publication purposes
• Use a smart menu system
• Include Video, flash, MP3 players
• Incorporate an online shop with standard professional features

Since Joomla is database driven however you need to have website hosting hat supports PHP and mySQL database and that will allow you to uploard you files in bulk.

To get started you can get all the parts you need as follows:

• Joomla vs 1.5x (free). Installation is simple and step by step
• Compatible website hosting - 1&1 Professional Hosting
• Professional Templates from Joomlart or Template Plazza
• Alternatively to design your website yourself you can use Artisteer to create a template