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Joomlasuccess.com is your one stop source for everything on Joomla, from information, download to links. Joomla is an award-winning content management system that can deliver easy and powerful websites. Joomla is a trademark of Open Source Matters.

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About Joomla

Still struggling with HTML to maintain your website? Joomla is your solution. This award-winning content management system will give you a full-fledged website that can be maintained through an administrator page with great ease.

Joomla is free and open source that is available to anyone under the GPL license. Today corporate groups, schools, hotels, religious organisations, NGOs and newspapers prefer to have a website built on Joomla software so they can manage their website regularly without the help of a web designer or any technical knowledge. MTV, Harvard University, Citibank, Linux Foundation are some of the big names that use Joomla.

Joomla is written in PHP and uses MYSQL database to store data. You can build a Joomla website on both Windows and Linux server. However, most webhosting companies provide a "fantastico" or other cpanel options which will enumerate a list of softwares that includes Joomla. Once you click on "install" you will be asked to specify the domain, folder, and other login access details. As a matter of fact, internet experts suggest to not use the automatic install option as it would pose a security threat to the site. They suggest to install Joomla manually by downloading the latest version of Joomla which can be found at this link here - Download Joomla.

Once Joomla is installed it is simple even for non-technical users to add or edit content, to update images, to upload banners, to add menus or to add new features that would boost your online presence. Anybody with basic word processing skills can easily learn to manage a Joomla site.

Joomla currently has over 200,000 community users and contributors. There are over 6,000 free and commercial plug-ins available from the official Joomla Extension Directory. For this and many other reasons Joomla won the Packt Publishing Open Source Content Management System Award in both 2006 and 2007.

Some of the features of Joomla are:

User Management (you can create users, delete and even set an access level), Banner (You can upload any number of banners including the Google Ads), Contact Management (You can manage the contact fields and the email where the form is sent), Polls, Search, Web Link Management, Menu Manager, Content Management, Template Management, RSS, SEO control and much more.

Joomla Demo - You can test Joomla online by visiting the link at demo.joomla.org.

Joomla Tutorials

For beginners Joomla has created a guide that will help in creating powerful Joomla websites. Visit the links section to access the online beginners guide for creating Joomla websites. Find below two quick videos that will guide you through the process of installing a fresh Joomla site.

Joomla Templates

There are plenty websites that offer free templates to download. Download the templates only from trusted websites else you would end up downloading themes that contain iframes and malware codes that can ruin your entire website.

Some sites that offer quality themes you can download:

RocketTheme - You can download free as well as commercial Joomla templates from RocketTheme. For free Joomla templates of RocketTheme - click here.

SiteGround - SiteGround offers professional Joomla templates that you can download for free. Click here to download free SiteGround Joomla templates.

JoomlaDesigns - You can download high quality Joomla templates from Joomladesigns.co.uk. To start downloading free JoomlaDesigns templates, click here.

JoomlaArt - To download JoomlaArt templates, click here.

Joomla Template Tutorial: To create your own Joomla template, click here.

Joomla Resources

Find below listed some very important links to help you set up a professional Joomla website.

Joomla Extensions - Find over 6000 Joomla extensions including Components, Modules and Plugins that would take your Joomla site to the next level. E-commerce, Ads, Languages, Maps, Weather, News Display, Multimedia, Sports, Design, Security, Migration and Conversion, Editing and Events are some of the categories found on the extensions directory. To visit the directory click here - Joomla Extensions Directory.

Joomla Forum - Do you have a question? Want help to fix a bug you noticed? Want to connect with friends using the award-winning content management system? Visit the Joomla forum for your answers. Thousands of posts have been made and thousands of users write and comment on the forum. To visit the forum click here - Joomla Forum.

Joomla Security - Have questions related to Joomla security? Find help by asking at the forum here - Joomla Security.

Joomla SEO - For tips on search engine optimization and better ranking visit the forum here - Joomla SEO .

Joomla Translations - Joomla languages packs and details on it can be found at the link here - Joomla Translations. Currently Joomla supports about  64 world languages.

Joomla Resources - For a list of Joomla resources click here.

Joomla Documentation - For official Joomla documentation that provides help for installing and setting up a Joomla website click here - Joomla Documentation. You will find here guide to installation, security, module and plugin management, user management, article management, etc. For a basic beginners guide, click here.