Joomla! CMS Web Sites

 

Joomla is one of the world’s most popular open source CMS (content management system). With millions of web sites running on Joomla, the software is used by individuals, small & medium-sized businesses, and large organizations worldwide to easily create & build a variety of web sites & web-enabled applications.

Joomla! CMS is a fantastic web platform choice for just about any Joomla business web site design that warrants a dynamic engaging web portal for communicating with a customer community. Leveraging a solid content management system is important for retaining business knowledge and organizing your information assets.

Having the ability to adapt to a rapid changing global economy is important for future proofing your business and reaching your customers in a timely fashion. It is also important to be able to offer tools and a user experience that meets the expectations of an evolving social centric web user. 

Joomla! CMS as Joomla business web site definitely offers this type of functional flexibility with over 7500 extensions and add-ons available for the platform. When it comes to design, Joomla offers one of the largest catalogues of compelling design templates that you can use as a base for building a beautifully designed and branded presentation of your content. 

All and all Joomla! CMS is a superior framework for managing business content and interacting with your customers. Regardless of whether you are engaged in social networking, e-commerce or repositories of information, you want to make available to targeted groups of people in public or private networks.  All of the tools you need are available for small and large businesses alike.

Call or e-mail the team at Digi-Blue Web Design for more information on how we can help you achieve your business goals for an effective implementation of a Joomla business web site and Joomla Content Management System.

What's new in Joomla! 2.5?

Joomla 2.5 have a host of new features including new search functionality, multi-database support, and update notification. Moving from 1.7 to 2.5 can be done with the one-click upgrade within Joomla and most extensions that run on 1.7 should also run on 2.5.

Joomla! Web Design package

The above price is for a Joomla! web site for up to 6 pages.  Should you require a larger site with custom or specific functionality, contact us today for a quotation.

Easy Updates

 

The automated notification of Joomla! core and extension updates is a new built-in feature that simplifies site maintenance and management of updates:

  • Available as a quick button on the administrative control panel of your Joomla! web site, it enables administrators to update a site to the latest stable Joomla! release with just a single click.
  • A second quick button handles updates for Joomla! extensions.
  • A major usability enhancement, this auto-updating feature eliminates the need to manually transfer and replace files on the server, converting a time-consuming, error-prone process into a seamless, effective, and time-saving experience.

Smart Search

 

This new functionality offers a faster, more user-friendly search experience for your visitors. It features natural language search with auto-completion and stemming, which allows the user to find relevant content by just typing the first several letters of a word.

Designed for versatility and speed, this native Joomla! component + plugins set gives you one-click automated indexing of all content items, categories, web links, contacts, news feeds, etc.

It offers a large array of configurable options, including result description length, url length, and date filters.

Multi-Database Support

Multiple database support is a new feature that makes it possible to run the Joomla! CMS on many different databases, not just MySQL and MySQLi. This facilitates integration and update management processes. Joomla! now allows different drivers to be written that will support different versions of SQL databases. Current drivers exist for the MySQL and MS SQL databases, with PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite and PDO drivers close to being ready.

Additional Features:

  • Includes New Version of Joomla Platform
  • CAPTCHA in Core
  • Linking New Menus with a Module
  • Use the Images and URL Fields to Create Simple Standardized Layouts
  • Choose whether Administrator to Get E-mail When New Users Register
  • Menu Item Note
  • Custom Text Filters
  • Greater Flexibility Filtering by Category in Article Manager
  • Manager for Language Overrides
  • User Notes
  • Flexible News feed Order
  • Image Option for the Offline Page
  • Option to Have a Site Come Up Offline After Installation
  • Better Performance in Menu Item Edit page
  • Alternate Meta tags for multi-lingual sites
  • Improving SEO: New system Plugin: languagecode