Joomla for beginners!

What is Joomla

I am a work at home mom!  I work for My Stone Company. Can you believe that I was hired almost two years ago as a personal assistant! Now my title is Web Producer!

We are a young growing company, so we are  evolving all the time.  I have learnt so much about the Internet during this time.

We moved our website last year over to a CMS platform called Joomla.   When I first heard the word Joomla I said

“Joomla Shoomla – what is it?”

Then I did some research: Joomla is a Content Management System that is open source! Ok what is that?  (don’t worry I asked the same question) I went to my favorite quick information depot…wikepedia and found out all about Joomla

Then we looked for Joomla developers – we needed someone to set up the site on our server (I wasn’t there yet).  We found a few, but we met with one and the chemistry was there.  We have been working with him ever since.  In fact Shay from Echo is my Joomla Guru!  Basically in a three hour session he taught me enough that I could go have fun!

Ok lets track back:

1. You want to put up your website
2. You need a system that is not going to cost you lots of $$$(ie licensing fees)
3. You need something that you can manage yourself
4. Something that has lots of functional flexibility
5. Something that will look professional

This all leads up to one answer “Joomla”

There are tons of tutorials on the Internet on how to’s with Joomla! a simple search and you will find them

Joomla has a very organized website for all the extras and templates that you would ever want or dream about

Installations are easy (no you don’t have to be a code genius)

NOTE:  I would suggest that yes you use a developer to upload and do the templates for you the first time (there are lots of freelancers available for really really really reasonable prices…..I would again suggest Echo or go to ELANCE and find somebody)

So if you don’t believe me that Joomla will work for you , just to let you know who uses Joomla :

• Bloggers JoomlaBear
• Small businesses (like us – The Friendship Stone and The Jerusalem Stone - both on Joomla )
• Major corporations Porche (brasil)
• Magazines  Outdoor Photographer
• e-commerce sites   Innovative Baby (great site)
• personal websites Samuel L Jackson
• Museums Contemporary Jewish Museum
• Educational institutions  Oklahoma State University

Let me know if you have any questions, I might be able to answer them or at least I will put you in the right direction to find those answers!

Now I must get going, I have to get MJ up (it is now 6:15 am) dressed, teeth brushed and off to school, then it is back to the computer to work on our amazing new re-designed sites for The Friendship Stone and The Jerusalem Stone.

I am going to have a great day! Are you?