Can I Have A Dynamic Site?

These days it's becoming much easier to create your own website. Building a high quality, search engine and user friendly, usable website that is easily maintainable from anywhere in the world would seem to be a different story.

If you're interested in your own easy to maintain site you should be looking into the content management system (CMS) options. Myriads of CMS exist in the market - many FREE, some priced up to $145 or more.

Most CMS systems suffer from the same problem, usability. This prevents you from getting the most out of your site.

Joomla! is the perfect solution

By giving you a huge amount of flexibility in setting up your site Joomla! has a significant edge over most systems. Joomla was introduced in 2005 after the developers split from the Mambo project. It is offered as free open source software meaning there are no fees involved with using it at all. Everyone from grandmas running picture sites of their grandkids to huge Fortune 500 companies are taking advantage of it's power. This unique feature set have won it several awards in the last few years, including beating Firefox as best open source project.

Anyone can make use of the powerful features very easily. Joomla is just as adept at simple tasks like adding new content as it is at running large ecommerce sites, download sites, or reservation booking systems.

Joomla! in the real world

Corporate sites, schools, newspapers, magazines, churches, hotels, ecommerce sites and more all make use of Joomla to power their sites.

Why Not A Commercial CMS?

Obviously for a commercial system you will need to pay some money, but Joomla! gives you these features all for free! Furthermore, unlike its priced counterparts, Joomla boasts a growing array of extensions - over 4,000 - designed to ENHANCE its capabilities, and a very active user community where people share ideas and solutions for using it.

You Need This Even If You Own A Site!

Whether it is a static or dynamic website, as long as you DO NOT HAVE the personal or in-house company competencies to effectively manage your website to get the results you want - that is to say you still have to DEPEND on EXTERNAL expertise to maintain or update parts of it - you WILL benefit greatly by migrating to a Joomla! based website.

In today's fast paced, information driven world, results-oriented business owner stand to benefit greatly by building cost-effective and highly maintainable Joomla! websites that they can have 100% control over - and NOT need to call the web designer back for.

Does Joomla Have Any Specific Hosting Requirements?

Joomla does not have any outrageous requirements for hosting, and you can run it on most standard web hosting plans, but that doesn't mean you should. You should be on the lookout for a host that knows Joomla really well and has optimized their servers for Joomla sites. You also want to avoid hosts that do what is known as "oversell" their servers. These hosts can generally be recognized by offering hundred of gigabytes of storage and bandwidth (or even unlimited) for just a few dollars per month. These hosts have to put so many sites on each server that your site is almost guaranteed to run slower than it should. The average Joomla site will probably never use more than 200-500 megabytes of storage.