More About Joomla!

For more information about the Joomla! CMS, please visit the project home page, or browse through the online database of more than 4,000 extensions and add-ons.

What Does Joomla! Mean?

The name Joomla is a phonetic spelling for the Swahili word Jumla, which means "all together" or "as a whole", a name which reflects both the community-developed origins and comprehensive nature of the software.
Joomla! Content Management System

All our websites are built within a full content management system (CMS) powered by Joomla! This award-winning open source application enables small and medium-sized enterprises to access powerful features and site management tools previously restricted to large enterprises who had the resources to invest in proprietary development tools and customised web programming.

Using the Joomla! CMS will provide your organisation with an easy-to-use browser-based website management interface, through which it will be possible even for those with limited IT backgrounds to manage and update the website without needing specialist software or expertise.

In addition, the Joomla! CMS framework provides a range of built-in and extendable features that will meet all the current and future needs of any website:

  • Easy-to-use and easy-to-update menus and navigation, including built-in pathway/breadcrumbs feature and automatic site map generation
  • News/blog engine (with optional facility for users commenting on articles) and news archiving system
  • Facility for every page to be printed or emailed
  • Built-in search facility with ability to search for any text on the website
  • Site visitor tracking (including by individual content items) and advanced statistical reporting
  • Registration of website visitors, with facility to email all registered users as well as email newsletter subscription options
  • Login facility with separate content for registered users and facility for registered users to submit articles and content
  • Events calendar
  • Online forms, surveys and polls
  • Full constituent relationship management (CRM) system (see CiviCRM)
  • E-commerce and shopping cart system
  • Document management facility, with ability to classify downloadable documents in any format – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, ZIP, etc – into folders and subfolders with different levels of access/security
  • Discussion forums, with moderation and other security features, and facility for users to subscribe to threads
  • Image and multimedia galleries with a range of customisable features
  • Web 2.0 ('social web') features

Being open source, these development frameworks would also not your organisation to Avec Solutions or any other particular development company in the future. (Joomla! is the world’s most widely supported content management system and can also be supported by any web developer familiar with HTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL.)

It should be noted that there is no limit to the scale or traffic that can be accommodated by a website created using Joomla! CMS: it is a platform used by organisations large and small around the world.
 

Featured Joomla! Extension Suites

CiviCRM

CiviCRMCiviCRM is a full constituent relationship management solution, designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, not-for-profit and non-governmental groups.

CiviCRM is a powerful contact, fundraising and eCRM system that allows you to record and manage information about your various constituents including volunteers, activists, donors, employees, clients, vendors, etc. Track and execute donations, transactions, conversations, events or any type of correspondence with each constituent and store it all in one, easily accessible and manageable source.

Avec Solutions can integrate CiviCRM and its optional components into a full Joomla! CMS-based website.

VirtueMart E-Commerce

VirtueMartVirtueMart is a complete e-commerce shopping cart solution for Joomla! CMS.

Used by thousands of store owners, it can be run in store or catalogue-only (ie no shopping cart) mode. With its powerful administration tools, you can handle an unlimited number of categories, products, orders, discounts, shopper groups and customers.

Avec Solutions can install and customise VirtueMart within your Joomla! CMS-based website.

JoomSuite

JoomSuiteJoomSuite offers a professional suite of components including:

  • JoomSuite Member: set up paid access to any part of your site
  • JoomSuite PeopleTouch: social networking like Facebook
  • JoomSuite Permission: advanced user permissions
  • JoomSuite Resources: create any type of content you can imagine

Avec Solutions can integrate any of the JoomSuite components into your Joomla! CMS-based website. Please note that JoomSuite components are commercially licensed, and attract a small charge for use.

Community Builder

Community BuilderCommunity Builder is a suite of extensions building on the Joomla! user management system to easily create a community-based site or portal.

Key features include extra fields in profile, enhanced registration workflows, user lists, connection paths between users, and integration with personal messaging and discussion forum systems.

Avec Solutions can install and customise Community Builder within your Joomla! CMS-based website.