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Joomla Templates and Themes

Content Management System, or CMS for short, is how most websites in the internet are designed currently. It is the best investment any webmaster can obtain to design, manage, and publish content and source code. There are some paid and free CMS depending on the application for the new website creation. Experienced and novice webmasters use all types of CMS. One of the most complete free CMS distributed under the open source rules (e.g. Firefox, linux, etc.) is Joomla. Joomla presents their users with a set of advantages and qualifications that no other CMS provides. Some of the advantages of using Joomla are that it can be used for Inventory control systems websites, Data reporting tools, Application bridges, Custom product catalogs, Integrated e-commerce systems, Complex business directories, Reservation systems, and Communication tools.

Joomla comes out of the box with a very complete set of core features that lets you create your website right away. These set of core features found on the Joomla package are User Management, Media Manager, Language Manager, Banner Management, Contact Management, Polls, Search, Web Link Management, Content Management, Syndication and Newsfeed Management, Menu Manager, Template Management, and Integrated Help System.

Joomla has a complete network of encoders, programmers, and designers behind it creating astonishing free and paid extensions. Extensions are the useful additions that make Joomla such versatile CMS. Some categories that you can find extensions for Joomla are as follow:

Access & Security
Administration
Ads & Affiliates
Bridges
Calendars & Events
Clients
Communication
Communities & Groupware
Contacts & Feedback
Content Sharing
Core Enhancements		 Directory & Documentation
e-Commerce
Editing
Extension Specific
External Contents
Financial
Hosting & Servers
Languages
Migration & Conversion
Miscellaneous
Multimedia		 News Display
News Production
Photos & Images
Search & Indexing
Site Management
Social Web
Sports & Games
Structure & Navigation
Style & Design
Tools
Vertical Markets

Beside the great availability to a great number of extensions, Joomla possess an easy to use interference for changing the look on your new or established site. This interference let you change a complete set images, CSS, and flash movies called a template or theme. There is also a great number of Joomla sites offering templates and themes to fit the Joomla CMS. Since Joomla is one of the most common CMS on the net today, you are bound to find exclusive and shared designs that will fit your current need, or can be modified to fit your application.

Joomla Templates for Corporate or Personal Use

A good professional design template for Joomla is a must on keeping your visitors from leaving, and interested in your site. There are some free Joomla templates and themes around the net, but for a small investment, you will be able to deliver to your clientele. Some of the most common professional design templates and themes for Joomla fall into Agriculture, Alternative Power, Animals & Pets, Architecture, Art & Photography, Beauty, Books, Brewery, Business, Cafe and Restaurant, Cars, Charity, Christmas, Communications, Education, Electronics, Exterior design, Family, Fashion, Flowers, Food & Drink, Games, Gifts, Halloween, Hosting, Hotels, Industrial, Interior & Furniture, Internet, Jewelry, Law, Media, Medical, Music, Night Club, Personal, Politics, Portal, Real Estate, Religious, Science, Security, Software, Sport, St. Patrick, St. Valentine, Transportation, Travel, Web design, and Wedding categories.

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First Time Creating a Website? Get the Tools

Is this your first time creating a website? If this is your first time creating a website, you are loaded with questions, and very important decisions. By now you should have had your domain name and hosting company aligned, so the only thing that you need to worry is how is your site going to look.

For most first timers, The question to do-it-yourself website or hiring a web design or developing company is very large. Although most of  the time it comes down to how much money you want to spend. If you have the large budget most probably you will end up with a website design and developing company to take all the frustration or happiness of the accomplishment away from you. If you do not want to spend that much, you will attempt to do your website yourself, and most probably you are the latest since you have come to this site for help in creating your own site.

Website Creation

There are many ways to start up your site. The first question that you need to ask yourself is what do I want to accomplish with my website? Is it going to be a couple of pages for web presentation only?, or does it need some type of functionality? Do I want people to find me in the internet through search engines? or I just do not care – I want to have my presence anyways. These are the type of question that you need to start asking yourself now, so you do not throw your work later on.

Most people that are creating a website for the first time want to go with motion and sound. They want to go with Flash. Flash movies can be the most amazing websites in terms of creativity, and they just leave the website users in awe. However, search engines as Google, Yahoo, and MSN cannot read anything that is made with flash. If they cannot read them, they will not place them high enough or basically anywhere where searchers can find them. Not only that, it can be a little tricky if you do not have any experience developing Flash sites. We are going to be steering ourselves out of Flash Design for now, and focusing more into guide the first time website user into creating a site with ease.

Using Templates and Themes with CMS

The First time web designer tents to complicate themself due to the fact that they do not know the tools readibly available on the net. These tools come in the name of Website Templates, Themes, and content management systems or CMS such as wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, and others. They will make your site look very professional, and will shorten your design fase by many folds. Best of all, there are a lot good looking CMS and templates that are Free or very low budget.

Most of the free content management systems have been extensively developed and tested by the website community over and over. Not only that, some of the big websites in the net today most likely use them. Also, sine they have been extensively used, programmers have develop add-ons or plugins that most likely will exceed your need for your website functionality whether it will be an ecommerce site with credit card processing or a site for showing off your private collection.

Furthermore, most CMS come with the ability to change looks (Templates or Themes) on the fly. So, if three days from now you do not like how your site looks, you change the template or theme by a few clicks of your mouse. So, for all these reasons the best way to go for first time website creators is to go with templates and themes, and a good CMS that will fit your need.

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