User's Manual
Chapter 1: Welcome to Joomla!
Joomla! 1.0.11 User Manual 18 Version 1.0.1.
You can find examples at the growing Joomla! Extensions or Components directory at
http://extensions.joomla.org/
. Prepare to be amazed at the amount of exciting work produced by
our active developer community!
Joomla!forDevelopers
Many companies or organisations have requirements that go beyond what is available in the
basic Joomla! package or in the freely available third party extensions.
Thankfully, Joomla! offers a powerful application framework that makes it easy for developers to
create sophisticated add-ons that extend the power of Joomla! into virtually unlimited directions.
Using the core framework, developers can easily build:
Integratede‐commercesystems
Inventorycontrolsystems
Datareportingtools
Customproductcatalogues
Complexbusinessdirectories
Reservationandbookingsystems
Communicationtools
Applicationbridges
or any kind of application to suit a unique need.
If your company or organisation hires a third party Joomla! developer, or builds in-house software
using the Joomla! framework, you are building on an open platform that does not tie you to any
one developer or to a proprietary, closed application.
You can learn more about developing on the Joomla! framework on our developer’s network at
http://dev.joomla.org/
. The beauty of Joomla! is that you can leverage our framework and user
interface to deliver applications to your end users in a familiar, powerful environment.
So,What’stheCatch?
There is no catch. Joomla! is free and available to all under the GPL licence. Further Information
about this at http://www.joomla.org/content/view/5/6/
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We do not claim that Joomla! is perfect, and cannot promise to meet every requirement in the
world. However, for many web applications, our software is perfectly suited for the job.
We are adding great new features with each release and, with the help and advice of our
incredible user community; we plan to deliver award-winning software for years to come.