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  • What is Joomla?

    Joomla is a cutting-edge content management system (CMS) designed to be highly extensible while at the same time extremely easy to use. With Joomla, it is simple for even non-technical users to add or edit content, update images, and to manage the critical data that powers your company or organization. Anybody with basic word processing skills can easily learn to manage a Joomla site.

    Through a simple browser-based interface, you will be able to easily add new press releases or news items, manage staff pages, job listings, and product images, and create an unlimited number of sections or content pages on your site.

    While Joomla is packed with features, its greatest quality is that it is extremely extensible. Because of its extensible structure, there aren't many things you can't do with Joomla!

    What kinds of things can I do in Joomla?

    • Dynamic form builders
    • Business or organizational directories
    • Document management
    • Image and multimedia galleries
    • E-commerce and shopping cart engines
    • Forums and chat software
    • Calendars
    • Blogging software
    • Directory services
    • Email newsletters
    • Data collection and reporting tools
    • Banner advertising systems
    • Subscription services
    • Many, many more…

    If you want to get extreme, Joomla also has APIs and it can extend into other technologies.
  • Who uses Joomla?

    All types of businesses, organizations, and individuals use Joomla.

    • Corporate intranets and extranets
    • Online magazines, newspapers, and publications
    • E-commerce and online reservations
    • Government applications
    • Small business Web sites
    • Non-profit and organizational Web sites
    • Community-based portals
    • School and church Web sites
    • Personal or family homepages

    Here are just a few examples of Web sites that use Joomla:

    United Nations (Governmental organization) - http://www.unric.org
    MTV Networks Quizilla (Social networking) - http://www.quizilla.com
    L.A. Weekly (Online publication) - http://www.laweekly.com
    IHOP (Restaurant chain) - http://www.ihop.com
    Harvard University (Educational) - http://gsas.harvard.edu
    Citibank (Financial institution intranet) - Not publicly accessible
    The Green Maven (Eco-resources) - http://www.greenmaven.com
    Outdoor Photographer (Magazine) - http://www.outdoorphotographer.com
    PlayShakespeare.com (Cultural) - http://www.playshakespeare.com
    Senso Interiors (Furniture design) - http://www.sensointeriors.co.za
  • Can I build an online business using Joomla?

    Yes, you can build an application that offers services to others. Or you could build an information site and sell advertising services.
    Many customers create content and ideas around one idea, using Joomla as the tool to display the information online.
  • Can I make money online using Joomla?

    You can make money implementing your ideas online, and use Joomla as your publishing engine for the internet. Google indexes Joomla sites very well. As part of our service, we have Joomla perfectly configured to connect to the search engines.      

    If you go to http://extensions.joomla.org/ you will see people have a great deal of pre-made software that you can install into your Joomla Web site, which can be used to power your Web site.

    Here are just a few ideas
    • Paid directory listing site
    • Article directories with shared Google ads
    • Build a membership site
    • Build an application inside of Joomla and offer an online service
    • Build an information site and offer advertising space
    • Build landing pages and drive traffic using pay per click
    • Build a local business Web site that indexes as local business
    • Build a social network around a niche market
    • Build brochure Web sites to help people understand your service
    • Become a service company offering Joomla-built Web sites
    • Become a partner of CloudAccess.net, offering Joomla Open Source Web sites
    • Sell custom-built Joomla Web sites to your local area
    • Sell online whatever you produce—add-ons to games like The Sims or Second Life, handmade jewelry, self-authored e-books...
  • Do you build my Web site for me?

    We can provide support for you while you build your Joomla Web site, within the guidelines of standard support policy. Joomla is Point-and-Click simple and if you watch a few getting started videos, you should be installing and playing within minutes. If you're just getting started with Joomla, take your time and play with the system. If you think you broke something, email support a screen shot and a URL and we will look into the problem. If you want to play first then have us reinstall the system, that's not a problem. Send support a ticket indicating that you want a clean slate. We will wipe the sandbox away and give you a new area to build your dream Web site.

  • What does Open Source software mean?

    In essence, Open Source software, in all of its many forms, contains an underlying programming code that is available to all users so that they can read it, make changes to it, and build new versions of the software that incorporates their changes.

    Open Source is about people from all experiences, all usages coming together and collaborating to make something everyone uses better in perpetuity.

    Here are some ideas from the Joomla experts:

    Elin Waring: Code is art or ideas—its about learning and making it better. Open Source provides freedom to run, to study, to modify, and to share.

    Jennifer Marriott: free isn't what it is all about as in download; free as in the code is available to everyone to work with. It allows everyone that has it to use, collaborate, and share their experience

    Once you use Joomla, you will be amazed with what you can do with it. Open Source allows you to stay in control. Own your code, but let us manage it. 

  • Where can I learn more about Joomla?

    Joomla.org has over 300,000 members in the community forum and close to 4,000 custom extensions that you can install into your Joomla site.
    You can visit the family of Joomla Web sites by going to http://www.joomla.org
  • How can I get a Joomla Web site?

    We handle the startup for you. Sign up with CloudAccess.net, and we will get you started right away. You could have your Web site online in less then 5 minutes.
  • Are you Joomla, or do you run Joomla?

    No, we are not Joomla and we do not run Joomla. The CEO of CloudAccess.net is a team member of the Joomla Resources directory. We are also very active within the Joomla community.

    You might find us in the forums helping, or you might find us investing money into some of the many Joomla days worldwide. The Joomla community is very active, and we try to be as involved as possible.

  • I don't like the templates you provide. Can I use other Joomla Templates.

    Joomla is very popular around the world. You can search for Joomla templates all over the internet, and you can use any Joomla template you find on the internet with our service.

    You can also have a custom template made for your business. Contact sales for more information about our custom Joomla template services.

  • Can you build me custom software that I can offer as a service?

    Contact sales, and we can help you build custom applications using Joomla Framework.
  • Can you build me a custom template?

    You can give us a template PSD to code, or we can construct you a new template from the ground up. Contact sales for more information.


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