Joomla! Documentation™

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What is Joomla?

Joomla! is a CMS(Content Management System) that lets you...

...make and update web pages easily.

A simplified explanation, think of a Joomla! website as dynamically bringing together three elements.

• Your content, which is stored in a database and called articles.
• Your template, which controls the design and presentation of your content (such as fonts, colors and layout).
• Joomla! is the software that bring the content and the template together to produce webpages.

No more HTML pages to store, update, link together and then upload to your server.