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Joomla History and where its going |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 24 May 2007 |
The future of any successful establishment today is based on its effective marketing strategies based on latest developments in the worldwide network most commonly know as the Internet. The companies website is the key to advertise or promote a product or services and acts as the virtual eye through which the whole world can see the important features and advantages of the product marketed. Thus the need for a dynamically enhanced web site easily searchable and top ranked happens to be the need of the hour wherein even the slightest negligence might cost irreparable damage to the business at large.
Many programs and software and other applications started to implement and demonstrate different methods to enhance and create SEO and Content management resources for optimising the web traffic by improving the content. In this race against effective customization process a new content management system was born as the result of the effort put forth by a group of core developers. On September 16 2005 joomla’s first version was released and has won laurels and is being accepted and used as the best open source content management system.
Joomla is written in PHP and uses MySQL database to promote content in the web and intranet and is licensed with GPL. The best feature is that it is a freeware available to anyone and everyone for almost all web solutions. What started off as fiction between the mambo trademark owner Miro corporation owner of Australia and other core developers who objected to the non-profit organization set up by the Miro Corporation to fund the project and to protect against law suits. The developers felt there were certain violations to open source values. Thus the developers created the open source matters web site to update the information among users, web developers and the web community in general.
An open letter written by the team leader Andrew Eddie posted in the forum of mamboserver.com soon became very popular and overnight 1000 people joined the opensourcematters.org. The name joomla that sounds more like a magical jargon has since then attained magical heights and is very popular for its ‘Bots’ and ‘Tags’. Faithful follower of the wide development team is responsible for the growth of this open source content management system.
The main features of joomla includes, forums, calendars, site searches, polls multi-languages, RSS feeds, flash news, blogs etc. joomla is controlled and established by the core team whose dedicated members take full responsibility to its integrated success in the overall functional and developmental success. The diversified location and nationality of its members coming from almost 11 countries through out the world is the strength behind joomla’s knowledge bank and extraordinary services.
The present version of joomla 1.5 is a combination of a three tiered structure whose first level has plugins and libraries, the second level belongs to the applications and the third is the extension level which executes Component, Module and Template logic. The applications level has an added three level structure, which are the Jinstallation, JAdministration and Jsite. Along with this triple structural system it also contains many packages like application, connector, database, document, file system and cache packages to name a few. Further the Jfactory and Jversion are classes specifically looking after the framework and version information effectively.
It further contains working groups to specifically focus on unique aspects like growth and development. These working groups integrate the much-needed communication among the community and core team, which helps in effective changes and to circulate information very imperative for the growth and progress of the project joomla.
Joomla effectively maintains an official and unofficial community with nearly 90,000 members in 40 different languages. Its official community boasts of having nearly 130,000 threads with 710,000 posts and the unofficial community sites are incorporated in many languages, which are suited for separate regions worldwide.
Everyone interested in the growth and development can become a member of the working group to help improve new features or enhance the community. Some of the current working groups successfully offering their services to the joomla project are the translation and development groups, documentation, design and accessibility groups and quality and testing group to name only a few. The media and marketing group focuses on the marketing strategy and branding and help in the infrastructure and progress.
Special attention is given to the community feed backs and the effective communication open and straightforward with almost all the team members and leaders provide extreme transparency to the system and thus are the main cause of its success worldwide. Thus joomla zooms into the easy enhancement from a simple homepage to more complex corporate web sites. It does have extensive features and productivity but what might be the future of the joomla project. Mixed reactions are reviewed in forums where people post their queries, complaints and experiences regarding the joomla services.
Though there is wide and remarkable scope for its growth and development constant upgrading and developing newer and more modern methods and templates or features will decide the steady utilization and attunement of the joomla magic among the communities and web developers.
Non-technical users profit greatly after its installation from the simple hands on user-friendly features of joomla. Its browser-based interface enables easy to maintain press releases or to manage staff pages or job listings. Even users with minimum knowledge of the browser features or web development can use the joomla effectively without much hay fare. Almost all types of business organizations benefit from the organizational directories and other main tools incorporated with this version of joomla content management system.
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joomla factor has many advantages and disadvantages to its credit as addressed by the end users at the forums. The fundamental structure as quoted in the forums is still outdated and so improved version with hands on features to help modern contents is much expected and though many accept its feasibility and reliability its future is in the hands of the developers worldwide who provide their sincere and continued support to the unwinding of the joomla magic. 
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