What is Joomla!
Joomla HostingJoomla! comes pre-installed (optional), together with 500MB of hosting space. Only R75 per month
Joomla! is a powerful and award winning Open Source Content Management System. If you are keen to build your own website, or you are a Joomla! developer, then this package is for you. We know Joomla!, and we know what is required from a hosting perspective to make your Joomla! installation and web design go smoothly.
But you probably want to know what a Content Management System (CMS)? A Content Management System is a tool that you can use to:
- Build a website
- Update and maintain your website content after it has been built.
Joomla! can be used to build your website:
Building a website with Joomla! is as easy as installing it on your domain through the Fantastico script installer. This is about a 30 second process.
You will immediately have a fully functional website up and running, with sample content already loaded.
The next step is to log into the administrator backend panel and start adding your own content. Joomla! is very powerful, (and with great power comes great responsibility, not so)? So yes, there is a learning curve involved in getting to know how Joomla! works. But we have some great tutorials available on our Web Design site to get you going. Check out our Joomla! Tutorials.
Joomla! can be used to easily change the look and feel of your website:
Changing the look and feel of your website is also a 30 second process, since Joomla! works off a templating system. Just select and install a template from one of the numerous free Joomla! Templates websites around and viola! Your website looks completely different.
Joomla! can be used to extend your website:
The best thing about Joomla! is that it can be used to extend your website with powerful functionality. There are currently over 2000 add-on components available to extend the functionality of your website. These can be found on the Joomla! Extensions website.
Some of the the most popular extensions are the following:
- Virtuemart - a full shopping cart for Joomla!. Virtuemart offers easy upload of products, automatic thumbnail creation for products, unlimited categories, order management facilities and more. Virtuemart comes integrated with a number of international Payment gateways and the good news is that most of the South African Payment gateways also have payment modules available for Virtuemart.
- GIG Calendar - Powerful Events calendar that you can use for managing a band's tour calendar, but also virtually anything else that are events based.
- Community Builder - Extends the out-of-the-box Joomla functionality to enable you to build a full community driven site. Extended member profiles, connections between users, integration with Forums, newsletters and more.
- Joomlaboard - A forum component native to Joomla!
We use Joomla on almost all our websites and our VPS server is therefore set up to be able to offer the maximum Joomla benefits with the maximum security.
Included in your Joomla! hosting package:
- Pre-installed Joomla! This is optional, we will confirm with you.
- Search engine friendly URLs by making use of S404SEF or OpenSEF
- Updates and news about Joomla! products and Joomla! security issues
- Regular monitoring of the server to check for possible exploits and loopholes
- Free advice and support on using Joomla!
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