Joomla! started as a fork from Mambo in 2005, when many of the original developers of the Mambo CMS moved to working on Joomla! It has rapidly grown in popularity and, according to its own description, is a “Cutting Edge Content Management System and one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management systems in the world. It is used world-wide for anything from simple homepages to complicated corporate websites.
It is easy to install, easy to manage and very reliable.”While the Joomla! CMS has the flexibility and power needed for complex, full-featured web applications, it is also simple to use to create basic websites. Its powerful, extensible template system can deal many different data types and control of user access, approval of content, scheduling of content display, and rich administrative controls are all included.

Who this book is written for
This book is suitable for web developers, designers, webmasters, content editors, and marketing professionals who want to
develop a website in a simple and straightforward process. It does not require any detailed knowledge of programming or
web development, and any IT-confident individual will be able to use the book to produce an impressive website.

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