talk about joomla

Joomla!
is a free open source content management system for
publishing content on the world
wide web and intranets. The system includes
features such as page caching
to improve performance, RSS
feeds, printable versions of pages, news
flashes, blogs,
polls, website searching, and language
internationalization. Joomla is licensed under
the GPL,
and is the result of a fork
and mambo.

The name Joomla is properly written with an exclamation
mark as that is part of the name, but this is commonly omitted.

It is written in the PHP programming language and
uses the MYSQL
database by default.

TheJoomla package consists of many different parts, which are built to
be as modular as possible, allowing extensions and integrations to be
made easily. An example of such are extensions called "Plugins".
Plugins are background extensions that extend
Joomla with new functionality. The wiki bot for example, allows the
author of Joomla content to use "Wikitags" in Joomla
articles which will auto-create dynamic hyperlinks to Wikipedia
articles when displayed. There are over 2,900 extensions for Joomla
available via the Extensions Directory. In addition to Plugins, more
comprehensive extensions are available. "Components" allow
webmasters to perform such tasks as build a community by expanding
user features, backup a website, translate content and create URLs
that are more friendly to search engines. "Modules" perform
such tasks as displaying a calendar or allowing custom code like
Google AdSense etc to be inserted within the base Joomla code. Since
it has been around longer, there are more extensions available for
Joomla 1.0 than for Joomla 1.5, although native 1.5 extensions are
becoming increasingly available. Some of the older 1.0 extensions can
be used with version 1.5 if it is set to legacy mode.

Joomla permits administrators to set global configuration
parameters that affect all articles. Every page conforms to these
parameters by default, but a page can have its own setting for each
parameter. For example, you can elect to show the article author,
hide the author, or simply go with the global "show author"
parameter.