Joomla Web Design & Development

As the social media fever is catching up fast, companies and individuals alike are banking on online marketing to flourish their businesses. The world has realised that marketing you and your business online is perhaps the most convenient and effective way to reach your target audience. The online place is getting busy by the hour and high competition results in newer more convenient and faster ways to design, develop and send content online. Not so long ago, developing a web site meant a lot of time, effort and money. Not anymore, thanks to emerging technologies. Joomla is one such web development technology that is so promising that web development will soon be transformed in to something so easy, fast, reliable and affordable.

Welcome to Joomla:

Joomla is an open source content management system for publishing internet content and Joomla is free. The convenience of Joomla lies in its model view controller web application framework that, if required, can be used as an independent application as well. Joomla uses code written in PHP and uses the Object Oriented Programming framework and design ques. Joomla stores the data in a MySQL database. Page caching, blogs, searches, polls, RSS feeds are the most convenient features Joomla offer.

Simply put, if you are looking for an effective web content management system which can offer you a complete platform to create a website from scratch, where your main focus is on your content and need a framework to communicate with the database, store and retrieve data, create pages as you go, deal with security and authentication issues and do other related tasks, you need Joomla.

The greatest feature or functionality Joomla offers is the level of customization. Once the Joomla system is installed, you can get extensions depending on your needs and desired functionality. These extensions can be found in the Joomla extension library. Extensions are nothing but modules that can be installed if and when required. If the desired extension is not found, you can create your own extension with a little knowledge of HTML and PHP. Joomla’s core system itself can be modified to fit our needs. The default layout of the web page itself can be customized using Joomla. Joomla is very much SEO friendly.

The main advantages of Joomla:

Joomla is the best platform to develop sites that meet all the SEO requirements.

Joomla’s HTML layout is well formed with no nestled tables making it easy to read for crawlers.

Joomla ensures that URL’s do not have any query strings. Joomla URL’s are extremely Search engine friendly (www.mysite.com/mypage.html)

Meta keywords can be defined at a site level and page level as well.

Joomla is the new generation content management system with unparalleled customization level and ease of use. The very fact that even a non-technical person with basic word processing knowledge can design, develop and maintain a Joomla web site stands the testimony of the ease of Joomla.