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Download Joomla!</a> </div> <h2 id="benefits">Joomla's Benefits</h2> <p class="lead">7 reasons why Joomla! is the perfect platform for your online projects.</p> <div id="accordion1" class="accordion"> <div class="accordion-item"> <h4 id="accordionHeadingOne" class="accordion-header"> <button class="accordion-button collapsed" type="submit" data-bs-target="#collapseOne" data-bs-toggle="collapse" aria-controls="collapseOne" aria-expanded="false">A flexible system, easy to extend and customise</button> </h4> <div id="collapseOne" class="accordion-collapse collapse" data-bs-parent="#accordion1" aria-labelled-by="#accordionHeadingOne"> <div class="accordion-body"> <ul> <li>Joomla has thousands of verified third party extensions which can be easily found on the Joomla Extensions Directory - <a href="https://extensions.joomla.org">extensions.joomla.org.</a></li> <li>There are also thousands of high quality templates available, a great number of which are free. Paid templates are also available and come with world class support. Many templates provide a graphical user interface (GUI) which allow you to change colours, fonts, layouts and features without touching a line of code!</li> <li>The layout and overrides system and built in extendable functions make it easy to create customised solutions including: <ul> <li>Custom Layouts</li> <li>Language overrides</li> <li>Template overrides</li> <li>Custom CSS</li> <li>... and much more.</li> </ul> </li> <li>A wealth of free documentation and video training make learning Joomla a breeze make sure to visit: <ul> <li><a href="https://docs.joomla.org/Special:MyLanguage">docs.joomla.org</a> - our official wiki</li> <li><a href="https://docs.joomla.org/Special:MyLanguage/Portal:Joomla_5">Learn about Joomla! 5</a> - Joomla! 5 introduction documentation</li> <li><a href="https://forum.joomla.org">forum.joomla.org</a> - the official Joomla community forum - it’s manned by hundreds of thousands of users, all who are happy to share their knowledge and expertise with you!</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="accordion-item"> <h4 id="accordionHeadingTwo" class="accordion-header"> <button class="accordion-button collapsed" type="submit" data-bs-target="#collapseTwo" data-bs-toggle="collapse" aria-controls="collapseTwo" aria-expanded="false">Search engine optimised out of the box</button> </h4> <div id="collapseTwo" class="accordion-collapse collapse" data-bs-parent="#accordion1" aria-labelled-by="#accordionHeadingTwo"> <div class="accordion-body"> <ul> <li>Joomla has powerful SEO tools built and ready right out of the box  <ul> <li>Metadata and Keywords</li> <li>Mod_rewrite support for SEF URLs</li> <li>Menu creation built with the thought of creating clear and consistent sitemaps <ul> <li>Every time you create an article or a menu item, it automatically creates an alias for its default PHP string so that the links to particular pages are both user and search engine friendly.</li> <li>Each menu item can have its own meta description, keywords and robots settings, allowing you to customize the SEO settings for your content to give optimal availability and searchability. These features allow you to make the most important parts of your content shine out among other similar websites, giving you the technical edge.</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="accordion-item"> <h4 id="accordionHeadingThree" class="accordion-header"> <button class="accordion-button collapsed" type="submit" data-bs-target="#collapseThree" data-bs-toggle="collapse" aria-controls="collapseOne" aria-expanded="false">Free forever Open Source software</button> </h4> <div id="collapseThree" class="accordion-collapse collapse"> <div class="accordion-body"> <ul> <li>Joomla is created, maintained and supported by a unique volunteer community who believe that it should be freely available to everyone, always.</li> <li>Joomla is also surrounded by an extensive ecosystem of extension developers, designers, integrators, copywriters, support personnel, system/server administrators, people from all walks of IT life, who believe passionately in Free Forever Open Source Solutions.</li> <li>You get the benefit of thousands of hours of development time and expertise from programmers around the world free for you to use. Being free and open source also means that if you need to change webmasters, many others are available without having to rebuild your site!</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="accordion-item"> <h4 id="accordionHeadingFour" class="accordion-header"> <button class="accordion-button collapsed" type="submit" data-bs-target="#collapseFour" data-bs-toggle="collapse" aria-controls="collapseFour" aria-expanded="false">Security conscious development with an excellent track record</button> </h4> <div id="collapseFour" class="accordion-collapse collapse"> <div class="accordion-body"> <p>With a codebase designed to be robust, Joomla also features built in two-factor authentication and extensive access control levels out of the box. Joomla‘s dedicated <a href="https://volunteers.joomla.org/teams/security-strike-team">Security Strike Team</a> always strives to be ahead of the curve and has a reputation for releasing patches before exploits are widely known in the wild.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="accordion-item"> <h4 id="accordionHeadingFive" class="accordion-header"> <button class="accordion-button collapsed" type="submit" data-bs-target="#collapseFive" data-bs-toggle="collapse" aria-controls="collapseFive" aria-expanded="false">Joomla! speaks your language</button> </h4> <div id="collapseFive" class="accordion-collapse collapse"> <div class="accordion-body"> <p>Multilingual made easy. With over 70 translation packs available for the core and out of the box support for <a href="https://docs.joomla.org/Special:MyLanguage/J4.x:Setup_a_Multilingual_Site">multilingual content management </a>and <a href="https://docs.joomla.org/Special:MyLanguage/J4.x:Multilingual_Associations">language associations</a>, creating multilingual websites with Joomla is a simple and straightforward process.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="accordion-item"> <h4 id="accordionHeadingSix" class="accordion-header"> <button class="accordion-button collapsed" type="submit" data-bs-target="#collapseSix" data-bs-toggle="collapse" aria-controls="collapseSix" aria-expanded="false">Grows organically as your needs evolve</button> </h4> <div id="collapseSix" class="accordion-collapse collapse"> <div class="accordion-body"> <p>Joomla‘s stable core and extensibility allows your website or application to keep pace as your business unfolds from a budding idea to a fully fledged Fortune 500. Scale and add new features with fast turnarounds and without headaches.<br>Joomla is the go to CMS if you need a good platform to adapt to complex needs. With the integrated ACL (Access Control List), you can define granular access rights for different types of user. Your site can be multilingual out of the box thanks to translation packs. Through the documented <a href="https://api.joomla.org">API</a> and strong code base, you can produce quality solutions, that last and are extendible in the future. Through modern techniques and minimum requirements like PHP 8.1 (required as of Joomla 5) you can expect a stable development environment. Through Overrides, it’s possible to manipulate the output easily without core hacks meaning your updates will go smoothly.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="accordion-item"> <h4 id="accordionHeadingSeven" class="accordion-header"> <button class="accordion-button collapsed" type="submit" data-bs-target="#collapseSeven" data-bs-toggle="collapse" aria-controls="collapseSeven" aria-expanded="false">Build powerful PHP applications</button> </h4> <div id="collapseSeven" class="accordion-collapse collapse"> <div class="accordion-body"> <p>Joomla is not only a CMS, but also a stable and lightweight PHP framework which allows you to write web and command line applications in PHP. The Joomla Framework is easy to adapt and extend according to your needs. The CMS and framework are independent from each other, no need to install the CMS to use the framework! A great example of what you can achieve with the Joomla Framework is our <a href="https://issues.joomla.org">issue tracker</a>.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2 id="features" class="mt-5">Joomla's Core Features</h2> <p class="lead">Here are some of the Joomla! features you will love.</p> <div id="accordion2" class="accordion"> <div class="accordion-item"> <h4 id="accordionHeadingEight" class="accordion-header"> <button class="accordion-button collapsed" data-bs-target="#collapseEight" data-bs-toggle="collapse" aria-controls="collapseEight" aria-expanded="false">Joomla! 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