New York, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/04/2010 -- Open Source software offers both small and large businesses numerous advantages over proprietary web applications and software platforms. Joomla is an open source CMS system written in PHP that helps build powerful websites and other online applications.

Joomla has already been considered as one of the most powerful CMS by professionals and also used all over the world to power everything from simple, personal homepages to complex corporate web applications. A major advantage of using a Joomla CMS is that it is user friendly CMS (content management system), designer friendly, easy to install. Also, most of all the functionalities can be achieved in the website using readymade modules, components or extensions.

Most of them are free of cost and some of them are commercial. The person without zero technical knowledge can learn the things about administrator and can be update the website themselves. Using Joomla administrative interface, user can add or update content, news, event, products, services etc.New Joomla tools and plug-ins are released by Joomla developers worldwide making this CMS one of the most powerful CMS.

Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, has made Joomla Web development tool popular in today’s market. There are number of modules are available in Joomla CMS which can also be easily customized to meet your business requirements. Some of the primary features of using Joomla are user management, media manager, banner management, language manager, contact management, polls, content management, template management, web services, powerful extensibility etc.

Joomla has a variety of inbuilt easy to use Joomla components which can be used in your website for rapid development and can be customized depending on your requirements for fast and easy operations. Joomla Plug-in are a powerful way of extending the basic Joomla functionality. It is a small code block that manipulates default Joomla functions before it is displayed. When you develop Joomla component, it will cater for every aspect of the website requirements. Experienced Joomla Developer can easily customize the components to achieve the particular functionality in the website. You can as well personalize your business with the Joomla component.

Joomla CMS can be used for different purposes like corporate websites or portal, E-commerce and online reservation, small business websites, social networking portals, community based portals, multilingual websites and many more.

Joomla is an award-winning open source content management system (CMS), which enables development of excellent websites as well as powerful online applications. It is written in PHP, stores data in MySQL database and includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, search, and support for language internationalization.