Features Overview
Joomla
is so much more than just a powerful content management system. Here is a list
of features "out of the box," but the true power of Joomla is in its
extensibility.
User
Management
Joomla has a registration system
that allows users to configure personal options. There are nine user groups
with various types of permissions on what users are allowed to access, edit,
publish and administrate.Authentication is an important part of user management and Joomla support
multiple protocols, including LDAP, OpenID, and even Gmail. This allows users
to use their existing account information to streamline the registration
process.
Media
Manager
The Media Manager is the tool for
easily managing media files or folders and you can configure the MIME type
settings to handle any type of file. The Media Manager is integrated into the
Article Editor tool so you can grab images and other files at any time.
Language
Manager
There is international support for
many world languages and UTF-8 encoding. If you need your Web site in one
language and the administrator panel in another, multiple languages are
possible.
Banner
Management
It's easy to set up banners on your
Web site using the Banner Manager, starting with creating a client profile.
Once you add campaigns and as many banners as you need, you can set impression
numbers, special URLs, and more.
Contact
Management
The Contact Manager helps your users
to find the right person and their contact information. It also supports
multiple contact forms going to specific individuals as well as groups.
Polls
If you want to find out more about
your users, it's easy to create polls with multiple options.
Search
Help navigate users to most popular
search items and provide the admin with search statistics.
Web
Link Management
Providing link resources for site
users is simple and you can sort them into categories, even count every click.
Content
Management
Joomla's simplified three-tiered
system of articles makes organizing your content a snap. You can organize your
content any way you want and not necessarily how it will be on your Web site.
Your users can rate articles, e-mail them to a friend, or automatically save a
PDF (with UTF-8 support for all languages). Administrators can archive content
for safekeeping, hiding it from site visitors.
On public Web sites, built-in e-mail
cloaking protects email addresses from spambots.
Creating content is simple with the
WYSIWYG editor, giving even novice users the ability to combine text, images in
an attractive way. Once you've created your articles, there are a number of
pre-installed modules to show the most popular articles, latest new items,
newsflashes, related articles, and more.
Syndication
and News feed Management
With Joomla, it's easy to syndicate
your site content, allowing your users to subscribe to new content in their
favorite RSS reader. It's equally easy to integrate RSS feeds from other
sources and aggregate them all on your site.
Menu
Manager
The Menu Manager allows you to
create as many menus and menu items as you need. You can structure your menu
hierarchy (and nested menu items) completely independent of your content
structure. Put one menu in multiple places and in any style you want; use
rollovers, dropdown, flyouts and just about any other navigation system you can
think of. Also automatic breadcrumbs are generated to help navigate your site
users.
Template
Management
Templates in Joomla are a powerful
way to make your site look exactly the way you want and either use a single
template for the entire site or a separate template for each site section. The
level of visual control goes a step further with powerful template overrides,
allowing you to customize each part of your pages.
Integrated
Help System
Joomla has a built-in help section
to assist users with finding what they need. A glossary explains the terms in
plain English, a version checker makes sure you're using the latest version, a
system information tool helps you troubleshoot, and, if all else fails, links to
a wealth of online resources for additional help and support.
System
Features
Speedy page loads are possible with
page caching, granular-level module caching, and GZIP page compression.
If your system administrator needs
to troubleshoot an issue, debugging mode and error reporting are invaluable.
The FTP Layer allows file operations
(like installing Extensions) without having to make all the folders and files
writable, making your site administrator's life easier and increasing the
security of your site.
Administators quickly and
efficiently communicate with users one-on-one through private messaging or all
site users via the mass mailing system.
Web
Services
With Web services, you can use
Remote Procedure Calls (via HTTP and XML). You can also integrate XML-RPC
services with the Blogger and Joomla APIs.
Powerful
Extensibility
These are just some of the basic
Joomla features and the real power is in the way you customize Joomla. Visit
the Joomla Extension Directory to see thousands of ways to enhance Joomla to
suit your needs.
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