Joomla! is very flexible through the hundreds of extensions developed for it and can be used for a variety of purposes, from corporate Web sites to personal homepages.
Joomla works with WAMP, MAMP, LAMP and XAMPP environments.
Since January 2012 (v2.5+), Joomla also supports MS-SQL.
Here are some key features of "Joomla!":
· Admin dashboard
· Banner manager
· Manage contacts
· RSS feeds
· Polls
· Search tool
· Link manager
· Breadcrumbs
· Multi-user and multi-admin system
· Menu management
· Statistics
· Cache system
· WYSIWYG editing
· Legacy support
· Content rating
· Organize content in categories
· Extendable via components and modules
· Themeable
· Easy installation script
Requirements:
· Apache 1.3+ with mod_mysql, mod_xml, and mod_zlib or IIS web server 6 or higher
· PHP 4.3.10+
· MySQL 3.23+
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
Fixed bugs:
· Type check line 31, TemplatesHelper::getPositions
· Two Tags-related API issues
· com_tags show "{loadmodule..." when listing items
· Invalid tab end in article edit page
· Error in Database tab in Extension Manager
· Corrects font-file stack order
· Only titles display in featured/blogged views when hide intro text is selected
· Exception thrown for empty path
· Administrator interface dropdown menus not working on tablets
· Beez3 missing JHtml::_('behavior.caption');
· Menu item Alias required setting