Joomla is a free, open-source content management system (CMS) and application framework that powers almost 3% of the entire web. With a lively volunteer community, plenty of power, and user-friendly features, Joomla is perfect for your website!

This new version of Joomla incorporates more control, more options, and more power than ever before. Joomla 1.6 offers more for all types of users: designers, developers, administrators, and Webmasters.

Revamped from the ground up throughout much of the application, this latest Joomla release will delight the casual website designer while assisting small, medium, and enterprise businesses to succeed in delivering applications, intranets, and websites to their respective markets.

Providing power through simplicity, Joomla 1.6 guarantees its place as the most popular CMS of its class. Joomla 1.6 provides new features to end-users and website administrators including:

◦ Enhanced access controls for editing and viewing content with configurable user groups and viewing levels
◦ User defined category configuration, from straightforward one-level to intricate multi-level categories
◦ Installation enhancements permitting multiple extension setups in one package, revised with a single click
◦ Extended language support for simple development of multi-language websites
◦ Begin and end publishing times for modules, with increased control over where they display
◦ Contemporary new templates and semantic markup to attract the eye as well as the search engines
◦ Increased creative control through template styles
◦ Numerous additional elements and features, streamlining workflow and increasing efficiency and productivity

Joomla 1.6 allows developers to build extensions more rapidly through all phases of design, deployment, and updates.

Advanced and robust API’s (Application Programming Interface) will afford new opportunities to compete, expand, and integrate into existing and fresh markets.

Style enhancements give graphic designers more control and more flexibility to create the perfect effect for any audience and website. Designers can now supersede virtually all output from the Joomla Administrator giving rise to new prospects for accessible, functional, or even mobile-friendly Administrator areas. Exclusive Administrator templates can be designated to exclusive users allowing Webmasters to attend to any particular requirements.

To learn more, or to get started building your own Joomla 1.6 web site visit joomla.org/16 and download one of the world’s most popular free Open Source content management systems.

Perfectory Web Design Services commends the entire Joomla project team and we celebrate the launch of Joomla 1.6 with our own release of brilliant Joomla 1.6 Templates.