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  • Beginning Joomla! Web Site Development (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)
    Amazon: $44.99
  • Joomla! Bible
    Amazon: $44.99
  • Joomla! 1.5 Essential Training
    Amazon: $49.95
  • Joomla! For Dummies
    Amazon: $29.99
  • Joomla!: Visual QuickStart Guide
    Amazon: $29.99
  • Joomla! Start to Finish: How to Plan, Execute, and Maintain Your Web Site (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)
    Amazon: $39.99
  • Joomla Creating Editing Custom Templates
    Amazon: $49.95
  • Joomla! 1.5: A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website (2nd Edition)
    Amazon: $44.99
  • Beginning Joomla!, Second Edition (Beginning from Novice to Professional)
    Amazon: $44.99
  • Joomla! 1.5 Development Cookbook
    Amazon: $44.99
  • Advanced Joomla!
    Amazon: $49.99
  • Joomla Advanced CSS
    Amazon: $49.95
  • Using Joomla: Building Powerful and Efficient Web Sites
    Amazon: $44.99
Wed, 07/01/2009 - 10:31 — morningtime

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

Joomla is a product of Open Source Matters Inc.

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Specifications

Additional Information
Available Languages: How many languages are available for the software. 
81
Cost Estimate: The expected 12-month cost of ownership in USD$. This includes monthly fees! 
$0.00
Learning Curve:  
Intermediate
License:  
GNU General Public License (GPL)
One-Click Updates:  
Yes (Add-on)
Standards Compliance Level:  
High
Site Setup Wizard:  
Limited (Paid)
Stability:  
Mature
Version:  
1.5.x
Hosting Requirements
Application Server:  
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Unknown
Database:  
MySQL
Operating System:  
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Unknown
Programming Language:  
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Unknown
Web Server:  
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Unknown
Root Access:  
No
Shell Access:  
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Unknown
Specific Demands:  
Apache servers require mod_mysql, mod_xml and mod_zlib.
Web Space: Minimum requirement 
20 MB
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Functionality

Site Administration
Administration Dashboard: Shows an overview of administrative functions, similiar to a Windows Desktop, with icons, administration menu's and other functionality. 
Yes
Drag and Drop Interface:  
No
File and Document Manager:  
Yes (Add-on)
Google Analytics:  
Yes (Add-on)
Inline Content Administration:  
Limited
Internal Search for Admin:  
Yes
Link Checker:  
Yes (Add-on)
Mass Upload:  
Yes (Add-on)
Media Library:  
Yes
Metadata:  
Yes (Add-on)
Offline Maintenance Page:  
Yes
Online Administration:  
Yes
Personal Dashboard:  
Limited
Site Navigation Management:  
Yes
Statistics:  
Yes
Translation Strings Management:  
Yes (Add-on)
Workflow Engine:  
Limited
Zip Archive Support:  
Yes (Add-on)
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Page Editing
Clipboard:  
Yes
Copy / Paste from Office:  
Limited (Add-on)
Email Content to Site:  
Yes (Add-on)
External Editor:  
Yes
Image Auto Thumbnails:  
Yes (Add-on)
Image Editing:  
Limited (Add-on)
Image Resizing:  
Yes (Add-on)
Macro Language:  
No
Server Page Language:  
Yes (Add-on)
Spelling Checker:  
Yes (Add-on)
Trash Bin:  
Yes
Undo History:  
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor:  
Yes
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Content Management
Archives:  
Yes
Content Categorization:  
Yes
Content Construction Kit:  
Yes (Add-on)
Content Staging and Merging:  
Yes (Add-on)
Content Tagging:  
Yes (Add-on)
Content Templates:  
Yes (Add-on)
Custom Content Types:  
Yes (Add-on)
Import-Export:  
Yes (Add-on)
Printer, Email and PDF Versions:  
Yes
Revisions and History:  
Limited (Add-on)
Scheduling:  
Yes
Subscriptions:  
Yes (Add-on)
Tag Cloud:  
Yes (Add-on)
Voting and Rating:  
Yes (Add-on)
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Users
Avatars: Avatars are personalized icons linked to a visitor's email address. 
Yes
Buddy List:  
Yes (Add-on)
Memberlist:  
Yes
Memberlist Search:  
Yes
OpenID Login Support:  
Yes
Paid Content Subscriptions:  
Yes (Add-on)
Private Messaging System:  
Yes (Add-on)
Public User Page:  
Yes (Paid)
Registration Form:  
Yes
Registration Form Custom Fields:  
Yes (Add-on)
User Access Control:  
Yes (Add-on)
User Contributions:  
Yes
User Groups:  
Yes (Add-on)
User Points / Karma Rating:  
Yes (Add-on)
User Preferences:  
Yes
User Profiles:  
Yes (Add-on)
User Signatures:  
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Unknown
Who's Online List:  
Yes (Add-on)
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Layouts, Design and Templates
Content Type Theming: Give different content types their own layout and theming options, e.g. blog posts and categories. 
Yes (Add-on)
Drag and Drop Layouts:  
No
Granular CSS Classes: Allows CSS styling of every single div or span, one way or another, without hacking into the core software. 
Yes
Web-based Template Management:  
Limited
Scheduled Theming: Schedule a theme for Christmas or other special arrays of dates. 
No
Style Wizard:  
Yes (Add-on)
Sub Theming: Change the layout of parts of a main theme, e.g. columns, listings or blocks, based on specific criteria. 
Yes
Template Language:  
Yes
Theming / Skinning:  
Yes
URL Path Theming: Theme pages based on their URL, e.g. individual layouts for /sitemap and /contact. 
Yes
 
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Extended Functionality

Core Applications
Advertising Management: Manage ads, clicks and views for clients throughout your website. 
Yes (Add-on)
Affiliate Tracking:  
Yes (Add-on)
Chat:  
Yes (Add-on)
Commenting System:  
Yes (Add-on)
Contact Form:  
Yes
Contacts Management:  
Yes
Calendar:  
Yes (Add-on)
Events Management:  
Yes (Add-on)
FAQ Management:  
Yes (Add-on)
File Repository and Distribution:  
Yes (Add-on)
Forms and Surveys:  
Yes (Add-on)
Full-Text Document Search: Index the content of PDF, DOC and other files for search. 
Yes (Add-on)
Internal Search Engine:  
Yes
Graphs and Charts:  
Yes (Add-on)
Guestbook:  
Yes (Add-on)
Helpdesk / Ticketing System:  
Yes (Add-on)
HTTP Proxy:  
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Unknown
Lightbox (or variants):  
Yes
Link Management:  
Yes
Live Chat:  
Yes (Add-on)
Media Gallery:  
Yes (Add-on)
Newsletter Management:  
Yes (Add-on)
Polls:  
Yes
Sitemap:  
Yes (Add-on)
Streaming Audio Management:  
Yes (Add-on)
Streaming Video Management:  
Yes (Add-on)
XML Sitemap for Search Engines:  
Yes (Add-on)
Tests, Quizzes and Raffles:  
Yes (Add-on)
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Flexibility
Interface Localization (l10n):  
Yes
Internationalization (i18n):  
Yes (Add-on)
Language Negotiation:  
Yes (Add-on)
Multiple Domains Management:  
Limited (Add-on)
Multi-Site from 1 Codebase:  
Yes (Paid)
Multi-Site from 1 Database:  
Yes (Paid)
Right to Left Language Support:  
Yes
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Interoperability
Section 508: Create a barrier free website for the disabled and otherwise impaired. 
Limited
CGI Mode Support:  
No
Content Syndication (RSS):  
Yes
Database Query Editor:  
Yes (Add-on)
Database-to-Web External Databases:  
Yes (Add-on)
FTP Support:  
Yes
iCal:  
Yes (Add-on)
Text Browser Support:  
Yes (Add-on)
UTF-8 Support:  
Yes
W3C XHTML Compliant:  
Yes
WAI Compliant:  
Limited
WebDAV Support:  
Yes (Add-on)
Web Services API:  
Yes (Add-on)
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Mobille Internet
Device Capabilities Caching: Stores a list of known devices and capabilities locally for faster access. 
Limited (Add-on)
Device Capabilities Detection:  
Limited (Add-on)
Device Groups:  
No
SMS Support:  
Yes (Add-on)
Templates per Device Group:  
Limited (Add-on)
Unique Mobile Content:  
Limited (Add-on)
Site Wizard for Mobile Site:  
No
 
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Environment

Performance
Advanced Caching: Caching is a way to pre-build and store dynamic pages and database queries for faster access. 
Yes
Automatic Meta Tags:  
Yes (Add-on)
Bandwidth Optimization: Reduce the file size of page elements, inlcuding CSS, JavaScript and Media 
Limited (Add-on)
Database Optimization:  
Limited (Add-on)
Database Query Caching:  
Yes (Add-on)
Database Replication:  
Yes (Add-on)
Friendly URLs:  
Yes
Load Balancing:  
Limited (Add-on)
Minify Javascipt:  
Limited (Add-on)
Search Engine Optimization:  
Yes (Add-on)
Static Content Export:  
Yes
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Security
Audit Trail:  
Limited
Captcha Anti-Spam:  
Yes (Add-on)
Content Approval:  
Yes
Database Backup/Restore:  
Yes (Add-on)
Pluggable Authentication:  
Yes
Email Verification:  
Yes
Error Reporting:  
Limited
Kerberos Authentication:  
Yes (Add-on)
LDAP Authentication:  
Yes
Login History:  
Limited
NIS Authentication:  
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Unknown
NTLM Authentication:  
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Unknown
Password Encryption:  
Yes
Sandbox:  
Yes (Add-on)
Scheduled Backups:  
Yes (Add-on)
Session Management:  
Yes
SMB Authentication:  
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Unknown
SSL Support:  
Yes (Add-on)
Versioning:  
Yes (Add-on)
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Support
Certification Programme:  
No
Code Skeletons:  
Limited
Commercial Manuals:  
Yes
Commercial Support:  
Yes
Community Forums:  
Yes
Developer Community:  
Yes
Issue Tracking:  
Yes
Mailing Lists:  
Yes
Online Help:  
Yes
Support Network Subscription:  
Yes (Paid)
Trainings and Seminars:  
Yes
User Conferences:  
Yes
 

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