Joomla! CMS is the best platform for building your business online!

If you are building a web site for your business it is easy to get excited about all the things that Joomla! CMS can do with its 7000 plus extensions and long list of core features built in. Joomla! CMS is an open source code base offered as a FREE download and relatively easy to install on any web server. There is one of the largest collections of world-class design templates available to build from and quickly brand to your specifications. Since Joomla! CMS is easy to use and offers flexibility to expand over time it is no wonder for the growing popularity of this robust content management system. According to CMS crawler, Joomla! CMS is the top web publishing tool (CMS) in Europe and captures over 2.6 percent of all websites worldwide (http://cmscrawler.com/cmsinfo?cms=Joomla!). Joomla’s only other close contender is Wordpress which has nowhere near the options for practical business use cases.

Sounds incredible! So where do I get started?

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With the growth of the Joomla! CMS as a website platform and framework upon which to build robust applications, Webmasters, Site Integrators, and Website Developers are faced with an often daunting array of potential solutions, components, plugins, or hacks to get your site to do just about anything!

One of the most common requests we get is to integrate in some way or another, the aspects of a community. Requirements can vary widely from simply the ability for users to message each other privately, the ability for users to fill out a more robust and expanded profile, or even all the way to creating a lively, self-sustaining community with regular interaction, community involvement, and communication. To answer these requirements with a sustainable and effective solution, we undertake a rather robust process to determine what the goal of the community functions are, the requirements needed for users to interact, and then finally what solution can be used.

The truth is, in web development, one size does NOT fit all. Each site has a unique goal with unique requirements, and what may be an ideal solution for one site is not necessarily the best route for someone else. Determining which solutions to use is a big step in ensuring that your site stays on target, and effectively reaches your audience. When it comes to communities, these differences are magnified since the level of user interaction and time spent on the site grows drastically, so here’s our quick look at what’s out there for communities, and what I see as the best ways to deploy some of them.

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