
I used Joomla to build some personal blogs. It was pretty straightforward to use the cms. The extensions and templates were easy to customize. Joomla helped me in many ways especially it saved me from spending a thousand bucks on the web developer.
Joomla is a user-friendly Content Management System (CMS). It helps literally anyone to build a website with no technical knowledge. I did not know any coding the first time I used Joomla. I was able to build a personal blog instantly. Moreover, it provides users the option of creating Joomla customized domain names and free hosting for their website.
Joomla is extremely easy to customize. It comes with built-in extensions and templates. The templates help decide how a website will look, while the extension enables you to add more functionalities and features to your site.
Joomla is reasonably secured. They always update their security patches, extensions, and templates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
While Joomla is easy to learn, it's learning curve is more complex than that of other CMSs like Drupal, Wix, Weebly, and WordPress. I personally disliked the outlook of the sites I built with Joomla. Websites built with Joomla seemed less elegant than that built with other CMS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It provides control and personalisation to your website.The vast liberaries of templates provide all new different looks to your website and the extensions presented by Joomla allow you to have different functionalities. Creating websites is easy with Joomla's extentions and templates and does not require specialization. Joomla is a great CMS that is easy to customise for good-looking websites. Joomla has provides strenght to young individuals beginning their careers in website designing . The security updates for the CMS are quite constant to provide protection from viruses.One of the great benefit of Joomla is that it provides customized domain names to it's users and free hosting service as well.Joomla is quite reliable and prvides a better environment for website building. The most valuable aspect of Jooml as a Cms is the availability of a large number of free extensions and themes , counting as much as around 4000+ . Joomla can be easily learnt to work on through youtube videos or simple tutorials which makes it a quite good aspect for you to select Joomla as your CMS for website building. Authorization properties are also upto the mark , it provides quality with the money spent on it. It is definitely quite good though . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The overall look of your website created with Joomla is not that much elegant as it is with other CMS platforms like Wordpress or weebly. Even though Joomla is quite easy to start creating websites but it is very much complex while understanding it's working efficiently . These are some of the issues that can be linked with Joomla. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Joomla is a great CMS of PHP. Websites can be easily made using Joomla. Its best feature is, content can be managed on the fly. It has a admin panel which can be used to manage Joomla features. The third party components are also easily available for Joomla. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Joomla is a very good and easy to use CMS. Also it has multiple templates available which can be used directly. Hence there is nothing to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
We use Joomla to build our website and because it is easy for our development team to make changes and updates to it through its multiple templates, extensions and design resources that Joomla offers, it is also extremely useful for creating the best web content. It is the best system for managing content and has multiple training resources to make the best of its benefits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Without a doubt it would be its high price and its limitations in terms of web page construction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is powerful and secures CMS software as it helps in ensuring the safety and integrity of your content so that no one will be able to access it without authority. It helps in editing your content such as menu, articles, category and a lot more. It is easy as well as powerful platform for creating tools thus any developers and programming skills are not needed for creating multiple menus through it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Modifying codes in it may be a complex procedure for some users. It may not meet the requirements of large enterprises as some of its features are not compatible with these enterprises. Extra features for security should be more helpful and will satisfy more customers. It has a poor preview ability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It does not any developer of a specific skilled person for using it. It does not need any cost for installing it as compared to other CMS platforms. It is providing continuous auditing for resolving its issues. As PHP is strong and powerful web development language thus it is written on PHP language. Due to PHP language, it facilitates a lot of developers for continuously creating and adding more extensions and features into it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
User may face a lot of problems if a user wants to make modifications in the layout of the website. It should be more SEO friendly. If more templates will be added in it then it would be more helpful for managing websites. It should be more responsible for mobile, tablets and smartphones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- The diversity in services provided by Joomla is its power.
- Joomla has a built-in media manager that lets you build your own folder, name it, and customize the media manager settings to redirect it to a different folder.
- Joomla has built in revision control. You can go back to a previous version in case something goes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- Sometimes cache build up becomes a problem, and cache has to be cleaned out.
- Joomla lacks the capability of a detailed preview. And there's no decent plugin for that.
- With Joomla, database problems are fairly common! Particularly when trying to migrate to a new server and/or updating data in a database.
- There is lack of authentication and protection measures to safeguard the content of the website and user information obtained through the portal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It does not any specialized and skilled person to operate it. It will be beneficial for those who are not familiar with HTML and many other programming languages. It helps in making a wide collection of sites such as e-commerce, classifieds, online job portals, index listing, real estates, social media sites and many more. You can use it without paying any cost. It is constantly improving and changing a lot of features into it due to the contribution of the community in it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It may be difficult to upload your files on multiple places. It may be difficult to migrating external content into it. It is not providing better experience about upgrading it. It should be more user friendly for content managers and tech leaders. It is not providing easier ways for formatting text. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The ability to host multiple sites and content for clients and internal teams simultaneously on one platform. We were exploring complete ownership of our platform, with all the tools we needed for performance and integration, as well as managing our teams, and Joomla seemed ideal to try this out on, along with Drupal. Within a couple of hours, it was cleat to us that Joomla was the simpler of the two platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The learning curve is a bit much to take on, especially from an Admin role, but I really don't see how you can get around it. The setup seems to compartmentalized but as a small business, the training time was tedious, but that wasn't because of a lack of material. It just seemed like the training was a project of it's own accord. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The advantage of Joomla in addition to being free is that it offers facilities to people who have little knowledge in the area of web page programming. It is something intuitive and with many options available to create a very complete basic blog. It also has a very good administrator panel where you can manage the pages that your site has. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Despite all its advantages, it has many weak points to consider, starting with the fact that even though it has many widgets and plugins, its repertoire is not really that wide. It is also not recommended if you want to create a professional website with a large number of options and its SEO optimization is not very advanced such as other software that offers the same service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Joomla is secure CMS to publish website and manage content easily. It is more secure than WordPress. Hackers can't easily hack our business website directly from CMS because it build with three application Model, View and controller. Every Single part of website design with separate application. Controller works on user action and fetch the data from model and view the website design to use. So it is powerful Tool to develop website. To login in joomla website we have to use administrator that is good one to access admin panel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
In joomla one issue we found that if we need to upgrade our version than we have to hire expert for version upgradation. We can not manage design part of website like WordPress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is quite an easy platform to install and operate. It takes very less time to start working on it. It is easy as compared to WordPress and simple as compared to drupal. Thousands of useful plugins accessible at the homepage of Joomla. If you want to make your platform more functional you can also install some of its paid plugins as well. It has an abundance of helpful tutorials and tools. It creates websites in a hierarchical order which is not a complicated process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Some advanced templates and modules are missing in it but it is improved than WordPress. You have to increase your resources and more storage if your website is too large and having lots of visitors. Most of its modules are paid. There are some compatibility issues between its plugins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Joomla has given its maximum potential in each update. They have added nested categories to have a more organized hierarchy control, they also added revision control, whose action that has gone wrong can be reversed for example a failure in the publication of an article. Joomla helps me create content very simply. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Everything has been incredible with Joomla, I quickly got used to its qualities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Joomla content management system is easy to use and implement, with great admin tools and features, Joomla is a scalable CMS solution with so many modules and plugins to choose from for your website. I like the fact that you can install e-commerce modules to create an online e-store to sell products and services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Nothing so far, I have been using Joomla since 2008 and I am satisfied with the results. I recommend Joomla for small business owners who need to built their website and have little or no knowledge in coding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The many additional applications (apps and widgets) help me to create a homepage without resorting to outside help. I have integrated the live chat tool and newsletter tool - so I can communicate faster with potential customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
A lot of features that vary from style to style and therefore I have to be careful, as soon as I change the design template, some widgets are no longer available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The way how its design and runtime environment. Dozens of modules, extension, templates, and plugins make this cm live. The PWA feature makes it installable on the mobile like a native app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There should be more API based commercial components Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It helps the user in building powerful applications and websites. It is providing thousands of free templates and extensions which allow you to customize your website or applications according to your needs. It can be used for various platforms which include portals, corporate websites, small business websites, intranets, extranets, government, non-profit websites, educational websites,
personal and family homepages, online reservations, e-commerce, school websites and many more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It has many templates and modules but as compared to other platforms it has limited options and functions. Your website may slow down if it is large in size and having too many visitors. Some of its plugins and modules are paid. Compatibility issues may be faced between plugins. It may be difficult for users who are not familiar with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Comprehensive and secured, aded more feature, easy in installation. Can devolp and can be integrated other modules like LMS, invoices, ERP etc offcially which are available and offered by Joomla itslef, many other plugins are too available, Builtin message/user section are pre installed, wide customization and devolpment documentation is available, many free and payed themes are available to change the outlook of the web, easy integeration and direct access to servers. Pre builtin fttp access tool in it with the programmed access through servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Menu is much lengthy and complex, over secured and control checks at some points, which makes customization harder.
Library of plugins/extensions is limited comparitively to competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Joomla is very powerful and great content management system. I really like it for my complex projects. I must say that the extension and modules are very powerful and easy to understand, you'll learn to control very quickly. The whole web development process is simple and easy while on Joomla. Joomla dashboard is pretty simple and neat and clean interface, you'll learn to manage the end product very fast due to clean GUI of this magical CMS. I. Really love the themes customizations as its simple yet you get powerful editing tools handy. For me it's my second best CMS after WordPress or I must say for complex projects it's the one and only tool I ever used. It's really easy for me when it comes to search engine optimization, e-commerce solution on the other hand you'll use powerful extensions for free. It's really easy to track content while on Joomla. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
So far I am unable to spot any issue with this beautiful and powerful Content Management System, there are few paid modules but believe me they are value for the money. As I mentioned earlier that I mostly use it for my complex and larg projects therefore it's bit heavy for simple and small scale web projects. One another issue is limited customization options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is very simple to understand after you get inside and work a lot in it. Would recommend having an expert to ask questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It's really hard to navigate and figure out where each page is and to update it accordingly. The changes take a while to apply, even when you clear the cache. Can't customize the page very much. Requires some background of HTML coding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.