At Creative Possibilities, we believe in creating customizable solutions for your projects.  That's why we create all of our websites on the Joomla! CMS platform.  This allows us to hand over the maintenance of the site back to you when construction is complete.  Don't get us wrong; we'll still maintain your site for you if you want us to, but if you can create a document in Microsoft Word, you can maintain a Joomla site.  This is just another way we try to make owning and operating a website more economical.

What is Joomla?

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

What's a content management system (CMS)?

A content management system is software that keeps track of every piece of content on your Web site, much like your local public library keeps track of books and stores them. Content can be simple text, photos, music, video, documents, or just about anything you can think of. A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage. Since the CMS manages all your content, you don't have to.

What are some real world examples of what Joomla! can do?

Joomla is used all over the world to power Web sites of all shapes and sizes. For example:

• Corporate Web sites or portals
• 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

Who uses Joomla?

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

• MTV Networks Quizilla (Social networking) - http://www.quizilla.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
• Fellowship Bible Church, Searcy (Church) - http://www.fellowshipsearcy.org
• Creative Possibilities, LLC (Design Company) - http://www.creativepossibilities.org

More examples of companies using Joomla can be found in the Joomla Community Site Showcase.

We stay on top of the latest development and releases of Joomla.  As of this writing, the latest version of Joomla is version 2.5.