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[Stephen Britton]

Excellent! Thank you!

This comes at a perfect time for me. I am trying to talk a potential client
to choose Joomla over WordPress (Her 15-year-old son claims to be WP
programmer!). And I know this article will help my case.

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Donna Marie Vincent <
donnamarievincent at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/240114/five_reasons_to_try_joomla_for_content_management.html
>
> Five Reasons to Try Joomla for Content Management
> Now 25 million downloads strong, this free Web content management system
> has plenty to offer small and medium-sized businesses.
> By Katherine Noyes
> Sep 15, 2011 2:08 PM
>
> There are numerous Web content management systems available out there to
> serve the needs of companies large and small, including numerous free and
> open source options. One that's figured prominently in the news this week,
> however, is Joomla, which is making headlines for the fact that it recently
> hit 25 million downloads.
>
> Some 2.7 percent of the Web now runs on Joomla, according to research firm
> W3Techs, which translates into a market share of roughly 10 percent.
> WordPress is currently the market leader, running almost 15 percent of all
> websites, while Drupal comes in third with 1.7 percent of the Web. Though
> Joomla is the relative newcomer among these three leaders, it boasts
> Citibank, eBay, General Electric, Harvard University, Ikea, McDonald's and
> Sony among its enterprise users.
>
> Does your company run a website? If so, here are a few reasons you may want
> to check out Joomla for yourself.
>
> 1. Powerful Core Features
>
> A three-tiered content management system and WYSIWYG editor along with
> tools for managing syndication, templates, menus, integrated help and more
> all combine to make Joomla a robust platform for creating and building a
> variety of websites and Web-enabled applications. Recently added in the
> current version 1.7 are the ability to perform one-click updates and
> multilanguage improvements.
>
> 2. More Than 8,000 Extensions
>
> Thanks to the ongoing efforts of a vital developer community, there are
> currently more than 8,000 free and paid extensions available to help you
> customize Joomla. A birthdays module, for example, shows a list of upcoming
> birthdays for a website's members; the Acajoom module, meanwhile, offers a
> powerful newsletter component.
>
> 3. Frequent Updates, Long-Term Support
>
> Whereas Joomla 1.6 took three years to develop, the project introduced a
> six-month release cycle earlier this year, allowing new features to be added
> more regularly. Every third release, however, is considered a Long Term
> Support release (LTS), offering 18 months of security updates and bug fixes.
>
> 4. It's Free and Easy
>
> Joomla is available for download at no cost, and it's designed to be easy
> to use for novices and experts alike. There's even an online guide available
> for absolute beginners.
>
> 5. It's Open Source
>
> Since its inception in 2005, Joomla has been 100 percent community owned
> and operated. The software is free, open, and available to anyone under the
> GPL license. For business users, that brings a number of considerable
> benefits, as I've noted before.
>
> Brian Proffitt, my colleague at Computerworld, recently compared Joomla
> with WordPress and Drupal and concluded that WordPress is best for
> beginners, Drupal is best for the most complex websites and Joomla is a good
> middle-of-the-road option that's powerful but still easy to use.
>
> You can see for yourself by taking Joomla for a free test drive via an
> online demo or the Joomla JumpBox, which lets you run the software locally
> with a pre-built and pre-configured virtual application on Windows, Mac or
> Linux.
>
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Stephen Britton
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"If you want to greatly increase your chance of success, double your rate of
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