Why Re-Invent The Wheel?

Many people build sites completely from scratch, either in pure HTML, or some scripting language. While that is fine, it wastes a ton of time. Most everything you will want on your site has already been done over and over again, so why not simply build on what has already been done?

Enter Joomla

Joomla is an extremely popular content management system. In other words, it is a foundation for dynamic and interactive websites that uses a common method for building programs for the website. What this means is that if one person writes a forums program for Joomla websites, and another person writes a chat program, the two will more or less work together since they share the same foundation. More importantly, since it was designed for their Joomla website, it will work on your Joomla website, too!

What makes this really exciting is that there is a huge community of people that contribute to Joomla, so what you want on your website has probably already been done, and for us to put it on your site can be a matter of minutes, while doing it from scratch could take hundreds of hours.

Joomla is Template and Database Driven

When you look at a Joomla website, almost everything you see is stored in a database, and your web pages are built on the fly, by request. What makes this so cool is that you can make a tiny change that could have a huge effect. For example, if we wanted to change the entire look and feel of this website, we could do it in a matter of seconds by simply changing the template. Better yet, since all of the data is stored in a database, we can, for example, change our phone number in one place and it will be changed across the entire site.

This is important because it makes maintaining the website so much more efficient. A large static website might take hours per day to maintain, while the same website in Joomla may only take minutes per month.