Why Choose Joomla?

Joomla is a fork of the popular Mambo software. It was started because there was not enough development or progress on the Mambo project. Since the split, Joomla has grown from strength to strength and firmly established itself as the number one CMS to power various websites.

With so many features built in from user management with access control, full content management on a range of different media types, easy menu builder, categorization, search engine friendly URL's, polls, advertising management and RSS feeds, using Joomla is like getting 80% of your website done immediately. Agriya can then help you finish off the final 20%.

The main advantages of choosing Joomla as your base platform are:

• Rapid application development, most of the features are already included in the Joomla software and there are thousands of existing free plugins that functionality to your installation.
• Joomla is an open source platform licensed under the GPL/GNU license. This means the software is 100% free for you to use and customize to your exact requirements.
• With over 100,000 websites around the world running Joomla, it is a proven safe, robust and reliable system. 

Joomla should certainly one of your considerations when you look to your next web development project, particularly if you are on a tight budget and need to get the website launched as soon as possible.

To help make your decision easier, here are a few more benefits that come with using the Joomla platform for the base of your website.

• Localized to dozens of different languages - real translations done by native language speaking people
• Will run on virtually any server setup, Linux and Windows
• Huge database of free plugins and themes to choose from, reducing your development costs
• Highly optimized for the search engines, so your sites can get better rankings in sites like Google, Yahoo and MSN
• Agriya has a lot of expertise developing websites based on Joomla