Why Joomla you may ask!
After building several web sites for companies that I have worked for and having been part of a refurbishment of several web sites into one large web site where we had over 100 pages of information, forms, etc I came to the conclusion that you need a content managed system (CMS) behind your web site. So every time you need to add or change content in a web site you need a system that makes it as easy as possible to do just that. I searched the web for several years looking at proprietory CMS and playing with open source CMS and I found the proprietory CMS were generally overly expensive and the open source systems just hadn't got to the stage were the average Joe could look after his web site without the need to know how to code HTML, javascript, PHP and all the other things that you can build web sites with.
Finally, I came across Mambo which at the time was pretty good, but not long after that the core developers split from the Mambo project and Joomla! was born. If you want to know more about the split Google 'mambo joomla split'. I've been using Joomla! now since it's inception in September 2005 and let me tell you it's pretty damn good for what the plethora of developers have done. It is an ever evolving system, getting better every day, easier to use, more functionality, more security, and so on and so on. And there are thousands of web developers out there using it. It is the most prolific open source CMS out there. You get my drift. Check out the Joomla web site if you don't believe me.
In my opinion Joomla! is the best open source content management system out there by far and even makes a lot of the proprietory CMS look pretty shabby as well. That's why I choose to build web sites using Joomla.
You can have a fully blown CMS website of your own for a very reasonable price. You can start out with a simple layout and a few pages and build your website to be as good as those that cost $10,000 or more. You don't need to spend that much. For a free appraisal of your needs call us on 0422 618 605 or contact us.
