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From an article furnished in the example Joomla installation....
"If you're new to Web publishing systems, you'll find that Joomla! delivers sophisticated solutions to your online needs. It can deliver a robust enterprise-level Web site, empowered by endless extensibility for your bespoke publishing needs. Moreover, it is often the system of choice for small business or home users who want a professional looking site that's simple to deploy and use. Joomla does content right.
So what's the catch? How much does this system cost? Joomla! 1.5 is free, it is released under an Open Source license - the GNU/General Public License v 2.0.
.......Joomla! has been developed for everybody, and anybody can develop it further. It is designed to work (primarily) with other Open Source, free, software such as PHP, MySQL, and Apache.
For a techie, it is easy to install and administer, and is reliable. A little HTML knowledge goes a long way in Joomla." I use HTML to make the layout better in some articles such as those requiring tables. To get the perfect Web site with all the functionality that you require for your particular application may take additional time and effort, but with the Joomla! Community support that is available and the many Third Party Developers actively creating and releasing new Extensions for the 1.5 platform on an almost daily basis, there is likely to be something out there to meet your needs.
The most time consuming task is figuring out the structure of the website and how to express that in sections and categories so that the articles you post end up on the correct 'pages'. That and getting your head to think about the 'pages' being dynamic, that is they are created "on the Fly" by retrieving your content from the database. Traditional websites are static pages. If you want to duplicate content on two pages you have to cut and page the code. In Joomla you can reference the same article in two different 'pages' easily.
I highly recommend checking out Joomla! if you are going to put up a website.
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