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DESCRIPTION
Joomla! is a powerful Open Source Content Management System for building professional web sites easily. It is often the system of choice for small business or home users who want a professional looking site that's simple to deploy and use. It can deliver a robust enterprise-level Web site as well, empowered by endless extensibility for your bespoke publishing needs. Joomla! is different from the normal models for content management software. For a start, it's not complicated. Joomla! has been developed for everybody, and anybody can develop it further. Similarly to the Firefox browser, the core system can be extended via easily installable add-ons authored by the developer community. The comprehensive internationalization of Joomla! 1.5.x supports right to left languages (e.g. Hebrew or Arab) and extended character sets. Dozens of language packs can be separately downloaded. This is a server-side application which can be run locally on your Mac.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.5.15:
- See the release notes included in the download: CHANGELOG.php
REQUIREMENTS
Apache recommended, any server that supports PHP and MySQL. Works very well with MAMP running on your Mac, locally.
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| Joomla! User Reviews (5 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Apr 24 2008 |
MARK EVERITT My department has a Joomla website, which I've had the dubious pleasure of being an admin for. I'm not sure if the newer versions sort out a lot of my problems, so I can't review this release with a rating. I'd warn admins away from using it, as for editing it doesn't work with Safari, amongst other issues. It's simply a pain to use! On top of that, we've had quite a few complaints that it's confusing to use and add content to. We've had much more luck with a Moin based wiki.
(Version 1.5.3) | |
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 | Jul 23 2009 |
NICK DRING As I'm a webmaster running quite a few sites using Joomla for an institution with 500 staff I thought I reply to a few ill informed comments that I see everytime I look at this page. M-RICK ia plain wrong. I've trained people to install Joomla, PHP, MYSQL and its never taken 4hrs. Joomla basic install takes less than 10 mins even for a novice. Joomla is a CMS but it should be seen more as a website builder. M-RICK's 4 hr site built from scratch would not have the built in funcionality, the ease of expansion and the cms tools hat joomla has out of the box. As for Mark Everitt - he doesn't actually say what his problems are. It does work with Safari but again he doesn't say WHAT doesn't work. For non admins there is an interface that allows people to add pages and update them also. Its not difficult, I suggest that maybe people need proper training. For anyone who wans to try Joomla on the mac, download MAMP a PHP, MYSQL, APACHE all in one and then install Joomla. Once you've done that head over to the joomla site to look at the extensions pages and the forum. Joomla uses templates to create the look of the site, an excellent template and much more place to go is www.yootheme.com, its not free but they do excellent stuff.
(Version 1.5.13) | |
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| Jul 31 2009 |
MARK EVERITT Specifically editing and saving a page with Safari was broken in the version we were using. Rendering was also buggy. Other issues to do with file uploading were also encountered. There was more but I don't keep a list of the problems on me. The reason I only left a comment and not a rating was because (and I specifically noted this) we were running an older version of Joomla. None of this changes the fact that so many users hate it, and yet have few issues with an in house CMS (we are a subgroup with our own systems, but the CMS still covers us). Add to this that nobody has issues with the wiki, which requires more tech savvy than Joomla should. We are physicists, so you won't find many groups of more qualified people to tell you when something doesn't work. The version we were running was an administrative nightmare. I still advise people to steer clear of Joomla.
(Version 1.5.14) | |
| Aug 12 2009 |
NICK DRING Most people use firefox when developing because it has things like firebug which help to see how pages are working, its also worth checking out one of the other editors rather than the standard joomla editor, I personally don't use one, but users find JCE easy to use. I have 400 people using joomla on one site and once they get their heads around how a cms works they seem to be at ease. My typical users are senior researchers, phd's, professors etc in neuroscience, nanbiotechnology, robotics, drug discovery from 72 different countrys.
(Version 1.5.14) | |
| Aug 12 2009 |
MARK EVERITT Your typical mac user is not a developer, and should not be expected to switch to another browser for adding content to a CMS. This was confusing and irritating for new users. We appear to have had rather different experiences, which probably stems from us using an earlier version. It's good that these issues no longer exist. I stand by my recommendation to stay away until I've had more experience with later versions.
(Version 1.5.14) | |
| Jun 6 2006 |
K.BOOTH Joomla is an excellent content management system. I've been using it and its predecessor (Mambo) for years. The package runs well on my own and remotely hosted sites. I use with *nix, PHP, and MySQL. It is flexible, extensible, and relatively easy to setup and maintain. End-users can add and edit content, which is a real bonus for community, non-profit, and company sites that want to outgrow the single webmaster/chief editor model. Joomla is not, however, a Mac application and may be confusing to some by having it posted here.
(Version 1.0.9) | |
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| Jun 7 2006 |
GEX I don't see what could be confusing to web developers - granted, it's not a Mac-specific application, but the fact is you can install Joomla on your Mac if you have all the other components in place (Apache webserver on, PHP and MySQL installed). It's a great way of developing websites locally instead of across the internet.
(Version 1.0.9) | |
| Nov 6 2009 |
TIANISSIMO Joomla on mac? I'm confused.
(Version 1.5.15) | |
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| Aug 16 2008 |
Something simple will not request 4 H of setup to understand how this and that works and because there is a bug that provides this you have to edit that manually, sorry, but it is not thedefinition of SIMPLE for me ... In 4 H the website is finished under RapidWeaver while it is still not done in here ... So i bought a licence for RapidWeaver and leave this piece of crap in here ... Anyway it is always like this with opensource softwares, they are full of funttionnality but they will work only after hours of reading over internet ... the dev have just no idea of what ergonomy means ...
(Version 1.5.6) | |
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| Nov 6 2009 |
AWADO It rather seems that you didn't read anything at all. At least you didn't understand what Joomla is and what CMS in general means. RapidWeaver is not a CMS.
(Version 1.5.15) | |
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