| Joomla! CMS |
Joomla! is the world’s most popular open source content management system (CMS), well supported by a large community of users and developers. It is designed to create dynamic web sites that your team can easily administer and update via the web browser. It is the CMS of choice for Team Firebox. The vanilla-flavoured out-of-the-box Joomla! has a slick administrative interface, user management, ad management, blogging, RSS news feeds, contact directory and more. The real power of Joomla! comes from its extensibility – literally thousands of extensions from the official Joomla! extensions site. Here at Team Firebox, we have our perennial favourites… Joomla extensions
JCE content editorJCE is an extended version of the TinyMCE content editor that comes with Joomla!. JCE combines WYSIWYG text editing, image handling and file management. The modal dialog images are particularly impressive, adding a modal-style pop-up image and manual slideshow (click on the image to the left to see in action). 
RSGallery2 image galleryThere's a large number of image galleries available for Joomla! RSGallery2 (which is used on this site) is very slick example (though it could do with some polish behind the scenes). The additional features for RSGallery2 are a slideshow, a category menu, a 'quick jump' list and statistics. 
VirtueMart e-commerce shopping cartSetting up an online shop used to entail a bespoke system at a cost of thousands of pounds. One of the joys of Joomla! is the ability to make an e-commerce site at a fraction of the cost, and VirtueMart is one of the key reasons for this. It's easy to set up, add products and manage prices. 
Kunena forumAn internet forum can be a great way to encourage discussion, feedback and support for your product, service or opinion. They only really work if your web site has a lot of visitors, plus they do have to be moderated to prevent abuse. Kunena is the standard forum extension for Joomla! 
Joomlapack backupThanks to JoomlaPack, it is a joy and a delight to backup your whole Joomla! web site with the click of a button. It’s also incredibly easy to restore your entire web site in the event of a catastrophe. What this also means is that it is very easy for you to move your Joomla! web site to another hosting service if you so desire. 
eXtplorer file managereXtplorer is a magnificent file manager for Joomla!, which enables you to upload, move, rename etc. files on your Joomla! site. 
sh404SEF URL rewritingsh404SEF rewrites a Joomla! site URL (or web address) so that is more easily, by both humans and search engines. This in turn should increase your page ranking on a search engine such as Google. |