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EDITOR NOTES
See the Related Links section for the last stable release.
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.
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WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.5.12: Release notes not available at the time of this listing.
REQUIREMENTS
Apache recommended, any server that supports PHP and MySQL. Works very well with MAMP running on your Mac, locally.
RELATED LINKS
    Last stable release (Joomla 1.5.11) available here.


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Developer:Open Source Matters, Inc.
Downloads:18,688
  - Version d/l:285
Internet:Servers
License:Free
Date:01 Jul 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
***½.
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Joomla! User Reviews (3 posts)Write A Review
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Aug 16 2008
**...

M-RICK  a crap.

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)

praisebury
-5
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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)

praisebury
+4
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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)

praisebury
+1
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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)

praisebury
-1