Joomla is a “framework” for building websites. Joomla provides the overall “content management system” (CMS) for organizing and maintaining your website. What is special about Joomla is that it is “extendable,” which means you can choose from thousands of Joomla extensions that easily “plug-in” to enhance the appearance, expand the power and maximize the results of your website.   Joomla! is an open source solution that is freely available to everybody.

Why choose Joomla? Joomla is a great choice for your business or community website because Joomla will save you time, save you money and make you extremely happy with your website.  A Joomla website is well-suited for a growing organization. Virtually unlimited content can be continuously added and Joomla’s hierarchal structure keeps the content organized and easy to search and find.  New functionality can be implemented easily and rapidly so your site stays fresh and current with the latest web tools and techniques.

Since Joomla provides the website organization infrastructure, a new website can be built very quickly. The focus of the work is on the content, not the navigation, layout, etc.  Joomla allows non-techie’s to easily update and add content. Joomla’s built-in permission structures allow multiple people to manage different parts of the site.

One thing we love about Joomla is the large number of beautiful templates available, and the templates keep getting better every month.  There are several excellent template companies and over the years we have learned what to look for in a quality Joomla template.

WordPress is a website engine built on the premise that installing it, running it, and publishing basic content with it should be as quick and simple as possible. Joomla is a different animal, it’s for managing and publishing a lot of different content types, in different ways, while looking good doing it.

Joomla is one of the most popular CMS’s on the market due to its power and flexibility. The Joomla package consists of many different parts, which allow modular extensions and integrations to be made easily. Joomla features numerous capabilities and a developed custom database work. Joomla includes a complex multiple user privilege system with user registration and layered content privileges, while WordPress does not have such a privilege system. As well, Joomla is the best open source CMS solution when it comes to multiple user groups.

Joomla was created from the ground up as a CMS, while Wordpres was designed as a publishing platform that has developed gradually into a CMS, offering each unique capabilities.
Both platforms work well for managing a website, WordPress is the best option for small to medium business and Joomla is fantastic for a website that requires multiple user privileges or custom database work.