We have come across many a times, clients looking for minor changes to their website such as a paragraph change, swapping out an image or adding a new fax number. This gets hard for website owners who are not technical and don't have an in house website developer. Looking for a development firm to make these changes at a reasonable cost could be a challenge.
The answer to the above scenario is simple - content management systems. A content management system is a website/portal supported by a backend database, that stores all the information displayed on the website in a well organized database system. This content management system has a user friendly administration console that allows non technical users to manage the content of their website without any special skills.
BluEnt has delivered a lot of successful content management solutions using Joomla an award winning content management system.
Joomla is free under the General Public Use license and can be used in many ways -
- Corporate Web sites or portals
- Corporate intranets and extranets
- Online magazines, newspapers, and publications
- E-commerce and online reservations
- Government applications
- Small business Web sites
- Non-profit and organizational Web sites
- Community-based portals
- School and church Web sites
- Personal or family homepages
Since Joomla is a popular open source content management system, it is supported by a 200,000 community users and developers. Some of the major advantages of Joomla are -
- Easy to Use - No pre-skilled resources are required to manage and maintain websites using a Joomla built system.
- Components and Modules - Joomla, comes with pre-developed components and modules that cut down development time and cost in key areas.
- Large Contributors - Due to the large number to contributors a lot of modules are available for popular features, free of cost or at a small nominal fee.
- Templates - A lot of templates are also available online to customize the look and feel of your website as per your requirements
- SEO - Joomla, has inbuilt features for generating unique SEO friendly URL's and adding meta tags to your websites pages.