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. You can structure your menu hierarchy (and nested menu items) completely independent of your content structure. The Menu Manager allows you to create as many menus and menu items as you need. It's equally easy to integrate RSS feeds from other sources and aggregate them all on your site.
With Joomla, it's easy to syndicate your site content, allowing your users to subscribe to new content in their favorite RSS reader. 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. On public Web sites, built-in e-mail cloaking protects email addresses from spambots.Ĭreating content is simple with the WYSIWYG editor, giving even novice users the ability to combine text, images in an attractive way.
Administrators can archive content for safekeeping, hiding it from site visitors.
Your users can rate articles, e-mail them to a friend, or automatically save a PDF (with UTF-8 support for all languages). You can organize your content any way you want and not necessarily how it will be on your Web site. Joomla's simplified three-tiered system of articles makes organizing your content a snap. Providing link resources for site users is simple and you can sort them into categories, even count every click. Help navigate users to most popular search items and provide the admin with search statistics. If you want to find out more about your users, it's easy to create polls with multiple options. It also supports multiple contact forms going to specific individuals as well as groups. The Contact Manager helps your users to find the right person and their contact information. Once you add campaigns and as many banners as you need, you can set impression numbers, special URLs, and more. It's easy to set up banners on your Web site using the Banner Manager, starting with creating a client profile. If you need your Web site in one language and the administrator panel in another, multiple languages are possible. There is international support for many world languages and UTF-8 encoding. The Media Manager is integrated into the Article Editor tool so you can grab images and other files at any time. 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.
This allows users to use their existing account information to streamline the registration process. There are nine user groups with various types of permissions on what users are allowed to access, edit, publish and administrate.Īuthentication is an important part of user management and Joomla support multiple protocols, including LDAP, OpenID, and even Gmail. Joomla has a registration system that allows users to configure personal options. Here is a list of features "out of the box," but the true power of Joomla is in its extensibility., Joomla is so much more than just a powerful content management system.