Introduction of Creating a Website using Joomla CMS

I will introduce you about Joomla a little bit before I talk about the pros and cons, and the recommendation. Joomla CMS is a open source of content management system for building a website. It is a framework to build a website in it. All the source packages are available at Joomla.org. Unlike the Blogger.com, you can download the files and change it whatever suitable for your need; however it's not simple. Anyway, Joomla CMS is the most popular open source platform to establish a powerful website.

Even though Joomla is the most popular open source content management system, there are quite considerable drawbacks while it also has some great features. And it needs a little bit of coding skills, I mean just knowing basic things so that you can make some amendments for your websites. Anyway, I will jump into the listing of the advantages and disadvantages of using Joomla now.

Advantages of using Joomla to build your website:

• The package is Free since it is open source
• Full features of content management
• Can do things more than Blogger.com and Wordpress
• Available plugins to boost your SEO
• You can create E-commerce, Forum, Chats, Social Network, etc...
• You can manage your users sufficiently
• Tidy sections and categories management
• A lot of helps when you have a problem since many people use it

Disadvantages of using Joomla to build your website:

• Need to buy web hosting (i.e compare of Blogger.com)
• A lot of folders and files, sometimes it seems so clumsy
• Using CSS and Javascript which may slower your website's loading
• Some plugins, components are not free
• Templates, themes are not free (i.e except some premiums templates which are shared on internet)
• It's uneasy to change the appearance of template (i.e you may need to hire a developer)

My recommendation if you are suitable for Joomla or not. Choose Joomla if:

• You have a lot of contents and users to manage
• You are doing it at least a small business level
• You have all the financial that maybe incurred
• You are in a position to hire someone when it is out of your control
• If you are going to build it yourself, at least make sure you understand the coding language, if not at professional

It sounds Joomla is quite big and complicated, right? But I will tell you, it's not that complicated if you just want to try it out and just want to experience it. Or you just want to have a personal website with Joomla. It's not hard if you do not have a lot of users and contents to manage. If you want to try it out, I am having the step by step tutorials for you both in written and videos. Additionally, I also have a list of suggested web hosting which are affordable, do check them out! Sometimes, in order to have great experience, you do need some investment. Hope you are inspired to try Joomla out!