Building Websites With Joomla!

Joseph LeBlanc

My background

• Programmer, not a designer :)

• Was introduced to Mambo...

• ...which became Joomla!

• Now I write code for Joomla!

What is Joomla?

• Runs your website

• Installs on your server

• Free software

• Open source: written by volunteers

Why Use Joomla?

• Active community

• No coding necessary

• Bring your ideas, download the rest

• Over 7.500 extensions available

Why Use Joomla?

extensions.joomla.org

Who Uses Joomla?

• All sizes and kinds of websites

• 2.5% of all websites

• 200+ nations with 1.800+ government sites

• 14.000.000 downloads since March 2007

Who Uses Joomla?

Photo by Ryan Ozimek, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license

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Who Uses Joomla?

27Government Websites in theRepublic of Macedonia Using

Joomla!

Who Uses Joomla?

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Who Uses Joomla?

(Internal intranet site)

Joomla Skills

• Site Implementers (Webmasters)

• Marketers

• Server Administrators

• Graphic Designers

• PHP and JavaScript programmers

Learning the Language of Joomla!

• Templates

• Languages

• Plugins

• Modules

• Components

Getting to Know Joomla!

forum.joomla.org

Getting to Know Joomla!

people.joomla.org

Getting Joomla! Resources

• joomla.org – Main Site

• docs.joomla.org – Documentation

• demo.joomla.org – Free Joomla site for 30 days

How does Joomla Work?

How does Joomla Work?

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How does Joomla Work?

Similar Software

• Drupal – Flexible, more programmer driven

• WordPress– Very easy, designed for blogs

• WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal power 10% of the web

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