Joomla is the world's leading Content-Management-System (CMS), estimated to have been installed on over 5 million websites. It allows you to choose from a large community of designers & developers wtihout locking yourself in to a single design team or custom-developed solutions that may be bug prone or difficult for anyone other than your original developer to work on. It also offers a broader array of templates, extensions and plugins than any other CMS...
Common Joomla Extensions Available
- Shopping Carts
- Calendars & Events
- Ad serving tools
- Search
- Google Maps
- Business & People Directories
- Classified Ads
- Community Portal Tools
- Reservations
- Automated Backup
- Newsletters
- Polls
- Quizes
- Blogs & News
- Image Galleries & Portfolio Tools
- Project Management & Groupware
- & Many Many More.
By choosing Joomla you are choosing the platform with the largest community of developers who are continually dedicated to future developments and improvements and if you ever need to change designers you can rest assured in the comfort that your site is built on an open source technology standard that any designer with Joomla experience can work with. You are also giving yourself the broadest possible choice of extensions and add-ons available.
Most of these extensions are available on open-source licenses that allow you to deploy advanced functionality without expensive custom application development. In short, Joomla can give you a feature rich website at a low cost that might otherwise cost tens of thousands of dollars.