Using Joomla for Your Organizational Website Michelle Murrain Nonprofit Open Source Initiative Ryan Ozimek PICnet

Michelle Murrain

Nonprofit Open Source Initiative

Ryan Ozimek

PICnet

Open Source CMS Content Management Systems manage website (or intranet) content Open Source Content Management Systems have become one of the real open source success stories The three most popular open source CMS in the nonprofit sector are: Joomla Drupal Plone

Content Management Systems manage website (or intranet) content

Open Source Content Management Systems have become one of the real open source success stories

The three most popular open source CMS in the nonprofit sector are:

Joomla

Drupal

Plone

Joomla! Joomla is an open source CMS based on PHP and MySQL It can be installed and run on any server with Apache, MySQL and PHP (including Linux/UNIX, Windows and Macintosh) It is very easy to install (many web hosts have 'one-click' installation It is considered the most user-friendly of the 'big three' open source CMS projects It has a very active user and developer community

Joomla is an open source CMS based on PHP and MySQL

It can be installed and run on any server with Apache, MySQL and PHP (including Linux/UNIX, Windows and Macintosh)

It is very easy to install (many web hosts have 'one-click' installation

It is considered the most user-friendly of the 'big three' open source CMS projects

It has a very active user and developer community

Brief History of Joomla Joomla started it's life as Mambo Joomla forked from Mambo in 2005 The current version of Joomla is 1.5

Joomla started it's life as Mambo

Joomla forked from Mambo in 2005

The current version of Joomla is 1.5

Joomla! Features and Demos

Joomla! Resources http://www.joomla.org - main Joomla! website http://forum.joomla.org - Joomla! user forums (active, lots of help available) http://docs.joomla.org - Joomla! documentation wiki

http://www.joomla.org - main Joomla! website

http://forum.joomla.org - Joomla! user forums (active, lots of help available)

http://docs.joomla.org - Joomla! documentation wiki