Why Joomla?

So what does 

Joomla

! offer?

Once your 

Joomla

! site is up and running, anyone with basic word processing skills can update it by adding content, managing images and keeping company-critical data up-to-date via a simple, browser-based interface. But, if you prefer, you can send content, images and documents to Webbering and we'll update the website for you.  It's part of our total package!  In fact, less than 10% of our clients actually add/edit/delete content on their own.  The rest prefer for us to update their website content for them.  Mostly because they don't have the time nor inclination to do it themselves and it's more convenient to them for Webbering to provide this service in additon to their

website design

,

website development

and

website hosting

.

 

Here are some of the core features of

Joomla

!

Cost

Cost

  • Joomla

    ! is absoultely free.
  • But you'll still need Webbering to put it all together!

East of Use

Ease of Use

  • Efficient control of users, links, content and files;

  • Search engine friendly URLs

    ;
  • Image Resizing;
  • Prototyping;
  • The ability to choose your WYSIWYG Editor.

Functionality

Functionality

  • Content Syndication (RSS) enabling the incorporation of news bullteins;
  • User Profiling;
  • Blog;

  • Picture Galleries

    ;

  • Contact Management

    ;
  • FAQ Management;
  • Banner Management;

  • Document Management

    ;
  • Mail Form;
  • Calendar;
  • Polls;
  • Built-in search facility;
  • Search Engine visibility is easily controllbale;
  • Data manager for uploading and administering information;
  • Archiving facility, enabling the re-use of content;
  • Publication of content in printable, pdf or email format;
  • Simple workflow system;
  • Multilingual frontend;
  • User Contributions.

Management & Performance

Management & Performance

  • Content Scheduling;
  • Simple and expandable template and component system;
  • On-line Administration;
  • Asset Management;
  • Simple Web Statistics;
  • Caching mechanism that speeds up the site's operation.

Security

Security

  • Content Approval;

  • Email Verification

    and protection from spam robots;
  • Login History;

  • Session Management

    ;
  • Versioning;
  • Hierarchical user groups.

Support

Support

  • Commercial Support

    , including Training;
  • Large Developer Community;
  • Online Help;

  • Public Forum

    ;
  • Third-Party Developers.

 

2010 Analytical Reports

Water & Stone- 2010 Open Source CMS Market Share Report

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If you view the Conversion Rate you will see that more users who evaluated

Joomla

decided to use it.  If you view the Abandonment Rate you will see that once they use

Joomla

, fewer people abandon it as their CMS platform.  If you look at the product preference, you will see that

Joomla

is, by far, the leading CMS in product preference.  One caveat that you can view in the full report is that WordPress is the most widely used CMS but it is primarily a blogging platform and not a full website platform.  We have installed both platforms and would 'never' recommend

WordPress

for full website capability.  However, we would highly recommend

WordPress

for someone who needed a

blogging platform

as it is well suited for that type of website.

2010 Idealware - Comparing

Open Source Content Management

Systems

2010_idealware_cms_report

This is the summary of their very extensive report which you can view entirely by clicking the graphic above.  As you can see,

Joomla

is the market leader!

IdealWare Summary

2010_ideal_summary

Webbering -

Website Design
,
Website Development
and
Website Hosting