User's Manual

Version 0.01 5/15/2006
• Forums and chat software
• Calendars
• Blogging software
• Directory services
• Email newsletters
• Data collection and reporting tools
• Banner advertising systems
• Subscription services
and many, many more…
You can find more examples over at our growing Joomla!! Extensions Directory at
http://extensions.joomla.org/
. Prepare to be amazed at the amount of exciting work
produced by our active developer community!
Joomla!! for Developers
Many companies or organizations have requirements that go beyond what is available in the
basic Joomla! package or in a freely available extension.
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:
• Integrated e-commerce systems
• Inventory control systems
• Data reporting tools
• Custom product catalogs
• Complex business directories
• Reservation systems
• Communication tools
• Application bridges
or any kind of application to suit a unique need.
If your company or organization 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 over at 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’s the catch?
There is no catch. Joomla! is free, open and available to all under the GPL licence. We don’t
claim to be perfect, and can’t 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