Joomla is an open source content management system
which can be downloaded and used completely free of charge. You can use
it to build any type of website that you might desire from a personal
website through organization website to a fully functional and secure
commercial website. There are a huge number of Joomla extensions which
are available to extend the functionality of your website to allow it to
do whatever you could ever want it to do.
However, like everything else in the world, Joomla is not perfect. It
does have some downsides. However, by having a look at the potential
downsides of Joomla now, you will be able to see that its problems are
far outweighed by its advantages.
First, Joomla plug-in extensions make an awful lot of things
possible, but the more Joomla extension you have, the slower your Joomla
website will load. Be very careful that you are not adding
functionalities for the sake of them and that they are truly needed by
the people who will be using your Joomla website and it will probably
work just fine.
Like with all other extensions, there may be incompatibilities
between your Joomla plug-ins. For instance, certain l;ibrary plug-ins
may clash with other similar functions that are already installed within
your Joomla website. The thing to do is do your homework before you
install a Joomla plug-in. Read forums on Joomla. There are a lot of
them. Has anyone else had a problem with this particular Joomla
extension? If they have, think twice about using it yourself or see if
the problem was overcome with a patch which you may need to get.
Another downside of Joomla is that you are totally reliant on the
work of other people. This can be frustrating when you need a fix for a
problem and the developer is reluctant to help. However, this problem is
not unique to Joomla and goes along with the territory of all open source content management systems.
Some people have expressed the concern of the security of Joomla.
However, if you are careful to only install tried and tested extensions
that do not come from a third party whom you are unsure whether you
should trust, Joomla is a pretty secure system.
Joomla is a complex system, small problems are bound to arise from
time to time. This can be through rogue plug-ins or file permission
errors. Like with all content management systems,
it takes a little while to get your head around it in order to make the
most of it. But that can be said of anything to do with website
building.
In short, there are problems with Joomla, potentially, but they are no different to the problems associated with any other open source content management system.
There are ways to overcome the problems and the downsides of Joomla are
far outweighed by its advantages. Go into Joomla with your eyes open,
being realistic about what you need your website to do and being
prepared to learn and you won’t go far wrong with Joomla.
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