Website Design & Development Using Joomla

Open source programming languages have become much popular in these days as there are many advantages of it. PHP is none of the most popular programming languages in these days using which numerous web design and development projects are accomplishing within the required time period. Being one of the most popular programming languages, there are large numbers of PHP based CMS available in the market and their numbers are increasing continuously. PHP based CMSs (content management systems) include WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, osCommerce, Zen Cart along with many others but Joomla is one of the best CMSs that is considered ideal for website design and development.

Joomla is a free and open source PHP based content management system (CMS) for publishing content on Intranets and WWW (World Wide Web) as well as a MVC (model view controller) web application framework that can also be used independently. Joomla uses object oriented programming that is written in PHP and for backend, MySQL database is used to store data. It has many features such as RSS feeds, printable version of pages, search, polls, blogs, caching, news flashes and support for language internationalization.  It has been observed that Joomla has been downloaded 30 million times till March, 2012. Now, you can easily imagine the popularity of Joomla website design works.

At the start, WordPress is considered as one of the easiest CMSs on which anybody (without having programming knowledge) can work easily but this is basically for blog development. Many features are missing in it that are essential for website development. Joomla is considered to be very professional CMS through which any kinds of website can be designed or developed. These websites can be personal or individual site, small business website, medium-sized business website or large database driven complex portals. Thus, Joomla has all essential features that are required to design or develop a website according to clients' specific needs and requirements within short period of time.

Maintenance of Joomla based sites is also very easy in comparison to various other kinds of site. This is an added advantage. Being open source, it also provides cost effective solution to everyone whether they are personal individuals, medium businessmen or corporate businessmen. Joomla has perfect solution for developing or designing any kinds of website according to clients' custom needs and requirements, that too within their financial budget. For this, you can hire programmer or designer who has gain expertise in developing or designing website in Joomla.