Across the Universe websites running Joomla 1.7 are so much more than just powerful content management systems. Joomla! is an award-winning, free and open source content management system for publishing content on the Web. Out of the box, it provides support for the following features:
Joomla 1.7 has a rich system that allows users to configure user groups with various types of permissions re which users are allowed to access, edit, publish and administrate.
The Media Manager is the tool for easily managing media files or folders. The Media Manager is integrated into the Article Editor tool so you can grab images and other files at any time.
jNews is an email marketing tool for Joomla. It handles millions of subscribers and manages mailing lists. It provides templates for creating beautiful newseltters with your logo and design styles. It sends newsletters to the appropriate list subscribers and provides statistics on bounce backs and cick-throughs..
There is international support for many world languages.
It's easy to set up banners on your Web site using the Banner Manager, starting with creating a client profile. Once you add campaigns and as many banners as you need, you can set impression numbers, special URLs, and more.
Help navigate users to most popular search items and provide the admin with search statistics.
Joomla's simplified three-tiered system of articles makes organizing your content a snap. You can organize your content any way you want and not necessarily how it will be on your Web site. Your users can rate articles, e-mail them to a friend, or automatically save a PDF. Administrators can archive content for safekeeping, hiding it from site visitors.
Creating content is simple with the WYSIWYG editor, giving even novice users the ability to combine text, images in an attractive way.
With Joomla, it's easy to syndicate your site content, allowing your users to subscribe to new content in their favorite RSS reader. It's equally easy to integrate RSS feeds from other sources and aggregate them all on your site.
The Menu Manager allows you to create as many menus and menu items as you need.