Joomla! is recognized as one of the most popular open source content management systems ( CMS) on the internet today and is the ideal open source solution for individuals, small business or large enterprises who wish to take advantage of the benefits Joomla! can bring.

Joomla is standards-based, extensible, GPL'ed application architecture available to all under the GPL license. Joomla! has been downloaded over 5,000,000 times since March 2007 when the project began using the Joomla Code Repository. Recently, the 300,000th thread was created in the Joomla! forum where the community will soon welcome the 200,000th member.

Joomla! 1.5 was released January 22, 2008, after over two years of development effort to refactor the code base into a modern application architecture utilizing MVC, object-oriented, event-driven approaches.

• User friendly easy to use administrator and front end interface.
• Secure, Flexible, scaleable modular architecture.
• Wide range of open source and commercial modules and components.
  
• Open source - no licensing fees.
• Thriving support community via the official Joomla! forum.
• Wide range of plug-ins including shop's, forums, galleries and much more.
• (SEF) search engine friendly system to ensure you get the highest search engine ranking position.
• Ongoing development by the core Joomla! development team to ensure new and enhanced versions are released regularly.
  

The name Joomla is a phonetic spelling for the Swahili word "Jumla", which means "all together" or "as a whole".

For more information on Joomla! visit www.joomla.org for the official word.

Spoonful of Love is a proud user of Joomla! technology.