Posts Tagged ‘ Joomla Web Development ’

Joomla Extensions are useful for Joomla Development Professionals

Monday, March 12th, 2012

Joomla is one of the best open source Content Management System (CMS) built in PHP.  It enables you to run blogs, website or even different news site. Joomla is free and it is very easy to install. Joomla is powerful than WordPress but as compare to Drupal,  Joomla is not powerful.  No coding skills are required for Joomla.  For making Website more customizable Joomla extension plays an important role for Joomla Development professionals to add new features to your website. List of Joomla extensions are:

Virtuemart: This is a free Joomla extension. If you want to sell anything and if you want to integrate shopping cart then you need to know about virtuemart. This is an excellent feature for Joomla Development.

JoomlaPack: it is very helpful for complete site backup or for including database.

Place Here: With the help of Place here you can easily place your images, links, text etc into website.

Google Adsense Plugins: this is one of the best plugin. With the help of Google adsense plugins you can add content very easily.

Xmap: As every website needs site map, Xmap is very helpful for HTML and XML sitemap. With the help of sitemap search engine crawler can crawl and index your pages easily.

Image holder: it is one of the best plug-ins which allows you to add alt-text, links etc to the image.

Sh404sef: From SEO point of view this plugins are very helpful for making URL search engine friendly, for managing Meta tags for each page, for adding h1 tags etc.

Frontpage Slidshow: This Joomla extension is helpful if you want to add CSS slideshow plug-in.

Community Builder: This extension is helpful for all type of social networks.  This plug-in is build and manages communities. It provides lots of support from other extensions as well also provides control over Joomla users.

Joomla has too many add–ons, component and extensions. According to requirement you can use all of these extensions for building Joomla 1.5 websites.

 

 

What’s so great about Joomla?

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

Joomla is a Content Management System which delivers sophisticated and upgraded solutions to online requirements.
Joomla is the only CMS which is not complicated, easy to install, easy to administer and reliable. To use Joomla we do not require having knowledge of HTML as it is like an online editor that has an intuitive design. It is almost like Microsoft Word where no code is required.

Some attractive Joomla features which make Joomla Web Development so great are:-

• Complete database driven website engines.
• The news, products or services sections are fully editable and manageable.
• It has fully customizable layouts including left, center, and right menu boxes.
• There is a browser which uploads images to your own library for use anywhere in the website.
• It runs on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX server, Solaris and AIX.
• Topic sections can be added to by contributing Authors.
• Admin can change the order of objects including news, FAQs, Articles, etc and there is also a Remote Author Submission Module for news, Articles, FAQs and Links.
• There is a News Feed Manager by which news feed can be easily integrated in the website.
• In-line Text editor is also there which is similar to any basic word processor software.
• There is a facility of image library for storing all your PNGs, PDFs, DOCs, XLSs, GIFs, and JPEGs online for using it easily.
• You can have as many Sections, Departments, Divisions and Pages as much you want because of the quality of Object hierarchy.
• It has an automatic Path-Finder. Where you can just place a picture and let Joomla fix the link.
• There is also a Template Manager because of which you can download Template and implement them.
• Before going live you can have a look that how your site looks with the help of Layout preview option.
• You have a Banner Manager with which you can actually make money from your website.