What is Joomla?

Joomla is a content management system (CMS). CMS is software that keeps track of every piece of content on your web site. Content can contain simple text, photos, music, video, documents or just about any other piece of information you might put on a site. One of the major advantages of using a CMS tool is that it facilitates web sites that require little technical skill or knowledge to manage. Since CMS manages all your content, you don't have to. Many web developers will use CMS to develop a site that they know they will not be maintaining themselves, but passing that task on to the client. The use of CMS makes it easier for the end customer to maintain and update their own site without needed further interaction with the developer.

Joomla is a popular and award-winning CMS due to its ease-of-use and the fact that it is open source, which means that it is freely available to everyone. Many web hosting providers will give you the option of installing and using Joomla on your account.