 Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) and the powerful application framework that Halos Web Genie is built upon. Joomla! is an open source solution, which means that Halos Web Genie is able to offer you a professional website experience without the additional high cost found with other content management systems. This amazing system allows us to save you thousands of dollars on the development of your professional website experience. The system includes features such as page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalization. Joomla is licensed under the GPL. The Joomla! package consists of many different parts, which are built to be as modular as possible, allowing extensions and integrations to be made easily. An example of such are extensions called "Plugins". Plugins are background extensions that extend Joomla with new functionality. The WikiBot, for example, allows the author of Joomla! content to use "Wikitags" in Joomla articles which will auto-create dynamic hyperlinks to Wikipedia articles when displayed. There are over 2,700 extensions for Joomla available via the Extensions Directory, a site that OpenSourceMatters runs as an official directory of extensions. In addition to Plugins, more comprehensive extensions are available. "Components" allow you to perform such tasks as build a community by expanding user features, backup a website, translate content and create URLs that are more friendly to search engines. "Modules" perform such tasks as displaying a calendar or allowing custom code like Google AdSense etc to be inserted within the base Joomla! code. Using the Joomla! framework, Halos Web Genie permits you to set global configuration parameters that affect all articles. Every page conforms to these parameters by default, but a page can have its own setting for each parameter. For example, you can elect to show the article author, hide the author, or simply go with the global "show author" parameter. Once Joomla! is installed and running, it is simple for even non-technical users to add or edit content, update images, and to manage the critical data that makes your company or organization go. Anybody with basic word processing skills can easily learn to manage a Halos Web Genie 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. Taking Your Website to the Next LevelCombined with Halos Web Genie, Joomla! does a great job of managing the content needed to make your website sing. But for many people, the true power of this combination lies in the application framework that makes it possible for thousands of developers around the world to create powerful add-ons and extensions. Here are just some examples of the hundreds of available extensions: - Dynamic form builders
- Business or organizational directories
- Document management
- image and multimedia galleries
- E-commerce and shopping cart engines
- Forums and chat software
- Calendars
- Blogging software
- Directory services
- Email newsletters
- Data collection and reporting tools
- Banner advertising systems
- Subscription services
- and many, many more…
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