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Joomla
A Powerful Tool for Content Management
Joomla is one of the world’s
most popular open source CMS (content management
systems). Joomla is free, open, and available to
anyone under the GPL
license. With millions of websites running on
Joomla, the software is used by individuals, small & medium-sized
businesses, and large organizations worldwide to
easily create & build a variety of websites & web-enabled
applications.
Our Joomla Installer makes the setup process simple
and keeps your version of Joomla patched and up to
date. You also have the option of performing a manual
installation and maintaining your own patches and
updates.
What is Joomla?
Joomla is an award-winning content management system
(CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful
online applications. Many aspects, including its
ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the
most popular Web site software available. Best of
all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely
available to everyone.
HostSellers includes Joomla Installer for FREE with
all SilverLite hosting plans and higher.
What is a Content
Management System (CMS)?
A content management system is software that keeps
track of every piece of content on your Web site,
much like your local public library keeps track of
books and stores them. Content can be simple text,
photos, music, video, documents, or just about anything
you can think of. A major advantage of using a CMS
is that it requires almost no technical skill or
knowledge to manage. Since the CMS manages all your
content, you don't have to.
| Differences
Between Automated Installer and Manual
Self-Install |
| Automated
Installer |
Manual
Self-Install |
| Ideal for the Novice User |
Ideal for more Advanced and
Pro Users |
| Simple Point and Click Installation |
Manual Installation using Joomla
Installation Guide |
| Beginner CMS. No Themes.
No Plugins. Just basic installation package.
No expandability |
You install whatever theme
and plugin you wish to expand your CMS |
Older, stable version of
Joomla installed
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Ability to install latest
version of Joomla |
| We maintain security patches. Lessens
likelihood of being hacked |
You maintain your own patches. If you
miss a critical patch or upgrade you are
more likely to be hacked |
| You can always move towards a self-installed,
self-patched model |
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| FEATURES & BENEFITS |
User Management: Joomla
has a registration system that allows users
to configure personal options. There are
nine user groups with various types of
permissions on what users are allowed to
access, edit, publish and administrate.
Authentication is an important part of
user management and Joomla support multiple
protocols, including LDAP, OpenID, and
even Gmail. This allows users to use their
existing account information to streamline
the registration process. |
| Media Manager: The Media
Manager is the tool for easily managing
media files or folders and you can
configure the MIME type settings to handle
any type of file. The Media Manager is
integrated into the Article Editor tool
so you can grab images and other files
at any time. |
| Language Manager: There
is international support for many world
languages and UTF-8 encoding. If you need
your Web site in one language and the administrator
panel in another, multiple languages are
possible. |
| Banner Management: It's
easy to set up banners on your Web site
using the Banner Manager, starting with
creating a client profile. Once you add
campaigns and as many banners as you need,
you can set impression numbers, special
URLs, and more. |
| Contact Management: The
Contact Manager helps your users to find
the right person and their contact information.
It also supports multiple contact forms
going to specific individuals as well as
groups. |
| Polls: If you want to
find out more about your users, it's easy
to create polls with multiple options. |
| Search: Help navigate
users to most popular search items and
provide the admin with search statistics. |
| Web Link Management: Providing
link resources for site users is simple
and you can sort them into categories,
even count every click. |
Content Management: Joomla's
simplified three-tiered system of articles
makes organizing your content a snap. You
can organize your content any way you want
and not necessarily how it will be on your
Web site. Your users can rate articles,
e-mail them to a friend, or automatically
save a PDF (with UTF-8 support for all
languages). Administrators can archive
content for safekeeping, hiding it from
site visitors.
On public Web sites, built-in e-mail cloaking
protects email addresses from spambots.
Creating content is simple with the WYSIWYG
editor, giving even novice users the ability
to combine text, images in an attractive
way. Once you've created your articles,
there are a number of pre-installed modules
to show the most popular articles, latest
new items, newsflashes, related articles,
and more. |
| Syndication and Newsfeed Management: With
Joomla, it's easy to syndicate your site
content, allowing your users to subscribe
to new content in their favorite RSS reader.
It's equally easy to integrate RSS feeds
from other sources and aggregate them all
on your site. |
| Menu Manager: The Menu
Manager allows you to create as many menus
and menu items as you need. You can structure
your menu hierarchy (and nested menu items)
completely independent of your content
structure. Put one menu in multiple places
and in any style you want; use rollovers,
dropdown, flyouts and just about any other
navigation system you can think of. Also
automatic breadcrumbs are generated to
help navigate your site users. |
| Template Management: Templates
in Joomla are a powerful way to make your
site look exactly the way you want and
either use a single template for the entire
site or a separate template for each site
section. The level of visual control goes
a step further with powerful template overrides,
allowing you to customize each part of
your pages. |
| Integrated Help System: Joomla
has a built-in help section to assist users
with finding what they need. A glossary
explains the terms in plain English, a
version checker makes sure you're using
the latest version, a system information
tool helps you troubleshoot, and, if all
else fails, links to a wealth of online
resources for additional help and support. |
System Features: Speedy
page loads are possible with page caching,
granular-level module caching, and GZIP
page compression.
If your system administrator needs to troubleshoot
an issue, debugging mode and error reporting
are invaluable.
The FTP Layer allows file operations (like
installing Extensions) without having to
make all the folders and files writable,
making your site administrator's life easier
and increasing the security of your site.
Administators quickly and efficiently communicate
with users one-on-one through private messaging
or all site users via the mass mailing
system. |
| Web Services: With Web
services, you can use Remote Procedure
Calls (via HTTP and XML). You can also
integrate XML-RPC services with the Blogger
and Joomla APIs. |
| Powerful Extensibility: These
are just some of the basic Joomla features
and the real power is in the way you customize
Joomla. Visit the Joomla
Extensions Directory to see thousands
of ways to enhance Joomla to suit your
needs. |
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Joomla requires PHP and MySQL
to install and run. Available on SilverLite hosting
plans and higher.
HostSellers
does not offer any training or assistance using
Joomla. We offer the installer to make the setup
process simpler for you. Users should maintain
full backups of their public and database directories.
We include phpMyAdmin in your control panel for
the download and backup of your database folder.
Please consult the documentation at the Joomla
website for further use and instructions on
their software.
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