* Corporate websites or portals
* Online commerce
* Small business websites
* Non-profit and organizational websites
* Government applications
* Corporate intranets and extranets
* School and church websites
* Personal or family homepages
* Community-based portals
* Magazines and newspapers
* the possibilities are limitless…

Joomla! can be used to easily manage every aspect of your website - from adding text and image content to updating a product catalog or taking online reservations.

Making website management simple.

The basic Joomla! package is designed to be easy to install, even for non-programmers. Most people have no trouble getting the software running, and there is plenty of support available for newbies. We have a growing, active community including 1,000s of friendly users and developers eager to help and learn from each other.

One of the best things about Joomla! is how easy it makes adding or editing content, updating images and multimedia, and managing critical data that makes your company or organization operate. Anybody with basic word processing skills can easily learn to manage a Joomla! site! Via a simple, browser-based interface you will be able to easily add new press releases or news items, manage staff pages, job listings, product images, and create an unlimited amount of sections or content pages on your site.

Joomla Extensions:  Adding Features to the Base Package

For many people, the true power of Joomla! lies in the application framework that makes it possible for thousands of developers around the world to create powerful add-ons and extensions to this robust content management system. Here are just some examples of the hundreds of available extensions:

If there is a feature that you need that is not built into the Joomla "core," there is a very good chance that there is a Joomla extension that will do what you want.

And, finding extensions is easy.  There is an indexed and categorized list of all extensions (with descriptions, demos, and user reviews) at the Joomla Extensions DIrectory (often simply called "JED") at http://extensions.joomla.org .

Joomla! for Developers

Many organisations, including NGOs as well as for-profit companies, have requirements that go beyond what is available in the basic Joomla! package. Extending the power of Joomla! into virtually unlimited directions, developers are constantly undertaking new projects involving:

* Integrated e-commerce systems
* Inventory control systems
* Data reporting tools
* Custom product catalogs
* Complex business directories
* Reservation systems
* Communication tools
* Application bridges
* any kind of application to suit a unique need ;) …

If your organization hires a third party Joomla! developer or builds in-house software using the Joomla! framework, you are building on an open platform that does not tie you to any one developer or to a proprietary, closed application. You can learn more about developing on the Joomla! framework over at the official developer’s network.

The beauty of Joomla! is that you can leverage its framework and user interface to deliver applications to your end users in a familiar, powerful environment.
There is no catch!

Joomla! is free, open, and available to all under the GPL license. Joomla doesn't claim to be perfect, and can’t promise to meet every requirement in the world. At times, the power can get frustrating because you have so many options.

But for many web applications, Joomla is a great solution.

New features are being added with each release, and with the help and advice of the incredible user community, it's software with a great future.

Remember, the official site for all things joomla is at http://www.joomla.org - we highly recommend reading through their discussion forums!