When you have a CMS (Content Management System) like Joomla, you can do a lot of things yourself. Much more than a "Web Site", this CMS delivers the power to you. It is absolutely scalable.
On this site we give you some insight into a very cool global thing that is just what a community of cyberpeople like the ones in Taos can use very well, thank you. Look into it a joomla.com
Base system: Joomla 1.0.13
Joomla is open-source software released under GPL/GNU General Public License. Most software is free of charge. Some specialized components and modules charge fees.
Joomla Comes with:
Components for:
Banners (basic banner ads)
Contacts (basic contacts)
Content
Frontpage
LogIn (staff login)
Messages (email with site users, i. e., staff)
Newsfeeds (a section to show newsfeeds from other sites)
Poll (basic 1-question polling)
RSS (publishes your newsfeed)
Site Search
Users (Several Tiers of users)
Weblinks (basic outgoing links lists)
Wrapper (pulls another site into your site)
Modules for display for some things above plus:
Archives
Latest News
Navigation Menues
Most Read
Newsflash
Poll
Ransom Image
Related Items
RSS Feed
Stats
Template Chooser
Who's Online
There are hundreds of other components and modules that add a lot of functionality. These include:
Google Maps
Video & Audio
Weather
Public and Private Blog
Estate Agent - (a neat Brit real estate listing component product)
eCommerce Amazon storefronts
sort of "whatever you want" based on budget.
Template Driven
The "front end" look and feel of the site is determined by "the Template". Individual sections of a site can have different templates. You can ever allow viewers to select from several templates. There are hundreds of templates for Joomla sites available on the Web. Some are free of charge (if you keep the link to the designer) and some have to be bought. Customization of a free template is the simplest and lowest cost way to go. Design of a new template is more costly.
