Joomla is a solid and fun to work with CMS. It is close to WordPress in terms of Userfriendliness and close to Drupal in terms of Structure and Flexibility. On the contrary to WordPress, Joomla was not really designed for Blogs but mainly for Personal and /or Business Websites.  It was developed using MySQL and PHP and every aspect of an e-commerce website has been thought of when building this CMS.

Joomla comes with a lot of built-in features but there are also hundreds of free components and modules that you can add. The other good thing about Joomla is that there are lots of forums that offer free support and guidance.  The problem normally with freeware is that support is provided not through any licensing fees that you pay, but through a community that all contribute and therefore gain themselves in the long term. Joomla has a very active community, and it is therefore very easy to get support for any possible problem.

The Joomla forum and all the extensions to Joomla in the form of components and modules can be found on http://www.joomla.org

Joomla's main advantages are:

• Flexible layout
• Variety of available Themes
• "Corporate" look and feel
• SEO-friendly URLs
• Tags, like Digg, Del.icio.us etc
• A solid RSS system
• Ability to have an RSS feed be automatically emailed to people
• Trackbacks and Pings

At IronMonk, we have worked on over 50 websites using Joomla. Our developers have designed, customized, tweaked and optimized every aspect of Joomla. We offer Joomla Development, Installation, Customization and/or Consultancy services for the small, medium and large-scale businesses who have decided to go the Joomla way. Enquire now to know more!