Joomla - Content Management System

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build web sites and powerful online applications. It is based on PHP and MySQL. Joomla! is a popular CMS and it can be used to build, organise, manage and publish content for small businesses, governments, non-profits and large organisations worldwide. Joomla is supported by a large number of volunteers, professionals, web developers and support staff.

Major Features of Joomla:

1. Advanced content management systems supported by many contributed extensions and themes
2. Advanced user management system (custom user profiles, user registration system and much more)
3. Availability of advanced e-commerce extensions to create complex e-commerce websites
4. Joomla has powerful SEO tools built and ready right out of the box
5. Advanced security and anti-spam features
6. Availability for very powerful extensions and themes to create complex displays and layouts
7. Built-in mobile responsiveness and optimization
8. Availability of many beautiful and mobile responsive themes
9. Easy to use and deploy for newbies and novice users.

Joomla Cons:

1. Free versions of most of its extensions and themes are limited
2. Many important and useful extensions and themes are paid
3. Basic functionality is easy to deploy but complex worklows and customized systems are difficult to achieve

Joomla is the best choice for the following types of websites:

1. Personal Blogs and Portfolio Websites
2. Corporate and Business Websites
3. E-commerce websites
4. Websites involving social and community features
5. Websites with medium level complexity and customized systems