1. By Kewan S. Salih

2. What is CMS?
Content Management System is a software designed to store and
organize the content regardless of any types and complexity.
The main goal of such a system is to provide a well structured,
automated yet flexible solution allowing information to be freely
distributed and instantly updated across various communication
channels (such as the world wide web, intranets and
miscellaneous front and back-end systems).

3. What is JOOMLA
• The name Joomla is derived from the Swahili word "Jumla",
which means "all together" or "as a whole".
• Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content
Management Systems. It is used all over the world for
everything from simple websites to complex corporate
applications.
• Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.
• 2.7 percent of the Web is running on Joomla.

4. JOOMLA
• It enables you to build websites and powerful online
applications.
• It is an open source solution.
• With the minimal amount of instructions, you can empower
your users to easily manage their own sites.
• It is highly extensible and thousands of extensions(Most for
free) are available. Including the specific extensions applicable
for library applications.
• It is an all inclusive application.
• Joomla runs on PHP/MySql.

5. • Joomla is written in PHP, uses object-oriented programming
structure (OOPS) techniques and software design pattern,
stores data in a MySql database, and includes features such as
page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news
flashes, blogs, polls, search, and support for language
internationalisation.
• It is based on a model-view-controller (MVC) web application
framework that can be used independently.
JOOMLA

6. History of Joomla
• The genesis of Joomla goes back to August 2005 when the
project broke off from another web design project Mambo.
The whole concern of the development team was to put this
content management software into the open source domain.
Internet users at the Open SourceMatters website
(www.opensourcematters.org) spoke in support for the new
project and in early September of 2005, Joomla! was born. The
comes from the Arabic for "all together", which is an important
idea for this web design project.
Joomla is now the internet's most popular Content
Management System.

10. Why to Use Joomla! ?
• Simplicity
– Intuitive Graphical Web User
Interface (WebUI)
• Flexibility
– Highly configurable and tailorable
• Robust
– Extremely stable core infrastructure
• Extensible
– 3rd Party Extension and Plug-In
capabilities
• Open Source Code
– You can modify anything you like
• Published API
– Windows in the code allowing 3rd
Party extension
• Dynamic Content
– MySQL database driven
• Pro-Active Support
– Joomla! Teams and Community
members.

11. Most Popular Websites Using Joomla!
Since March 2007, over 30 million copies of the Joomla software have been
downloaded according to Joomla.org. Joomla is the world's most popular full-
featured Content Management System (CMS) and powers approximately 2.7%
of the 1,000,000 largest websites in the world. These websites are in a variety
of fields, such as education, arts, media, sports, business, science, technology,
health, etc.

12. Joomla
Before we get started, there is another thing that you should
know about the terms such as the following:

13. 1. Harvard University - The Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences

14. 2. The Alliance for Catholic Education - University of
Notre Dame

15. 3. The Hill

16. 4. Linux

17. 5. It Wire

18. 6. Guggenheim

19. 7. MTV Greece

20. 8. United Nations Regional Information Centre
for Western Europe UNRIC