Mobile applications are growing in popularity and it is becoming increasingly important now that you tailor your web portal to be supported in mobile environments. Fortunately Joomla! CMS has several extensions and template configurations that will offer this capability.

Start with a smart template:

Using a third party template vender for your design foundation can save you a ton of time and money when implementing a mobile strategy for your site.  Rocket Theme or YooTheme templates for are a good example of template venders that have built in features for presenting your portal on mobile devices. You are allowed in these templates to configure primary menus for a mobile user which allows you to segment content just for your mobile user. This is often a good idea if you have a portal that leverages a lot of 3^rd party components since not all components will display as well as others in a mobile browser. There is also a great component/template extension called “MobileJoomla” which is simple to install and works pretty much right out of the box. It is very important to test and view your portal on the targeted mobile devices so you can see what your users are seeing and adjust where required to create an optimized mobile user experience.

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Mistake Number One: The Client Thinking that they do not need to be involved in the process

Joomla! CMS for simple sites with prepared contend and well defined design specs on a site that does not change could be handed off to a team to “just build this” but sites with any type of dynamic and changing content requires a very hands on approach from the client to be effective.

Since the shift from  static web sites through the introduction of the dynamic website revolution there is been a battle between where and when a client should be actively involved in the process of developing their site and where they can or should hand off aspects of the development. This is highly contrasted by the size of the budget and diversity of the stakeholders. The client almost always has superior subject matter expertise on their content while the Joomla! CMS support team has theirs in the framework, project execution and technology. We have found that every project is unique in these areas and there is not a one size fits all that works for any project.

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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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Let me share a few good reasons why I think you should consider using Joomla! CMS for your web development platform.  If you want to download a pdf version of this to show your boss or share with a friend click here.

Rapid web site development: Joomla is easy to use and deploy for non-technical users. Easy to install templates with sample content and clear directions can help you get started and on the right track in minutes. Existing site configurations can be easily cloned for backup or replication.

Thousands of extension and integrations: Joomla! CMS offers over 7000 extensions and is supported by one of the largest global development communities. You can focus on developing a great web site and user experience without having to recreate well understood features available elsewhere.

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Recently we were asked to bid on a new learning management portal since we have had a lot of experience with these types of sites.  The client was expecting to do this in Drupal since they had familiarity with that CMS system. Our core team focuses on Joomla but we brought on a couple new folks that have done a lot with Drupal so I started looking around and reviewing the specs and comparing features etc. and slogging through the forums. We have been working with several LMS systems for Joomla for several years now so I just took for granted that there were equivalents out there for Drupal but I was vastly mistaken.

It is not blatantly obvious to me now that one of the areas where Joomla! CMS really “Shines” in comparison to Drupal or Wordpress is with learning communities since there are no legitimate comprehensive LMS solutions out there for Drupal like there are for Joomla! CMS.

We have had great luck with three key LMS components for Joomla! CMS:

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