Joomla! Web Site Design

Avatar recommends the award winning Joomla! content management system (CMS). In fact, we like it so much, that we use Joomla! to manage our own Avatar Web site. The easy-to-use Joomla! CMS will allow you to add and arrange all types of content on your site including text, images, video, music, photos or documents. Joomla! can be used on all types of Web sites and you don’t need to have any serious technical skills to use it.

Joomla Advantages

Benefits of using a Joomla! CMS:

  • Relatively easy to use
  • Extensive CMS functionality, very powerful
  • Excellent login / community-orientated functionality
  • Thousands of available extensions and design templates
  • Well supported by the developer community
  • Open source and free to use under GPL agreement

Extensions

There are over four thousand Joomla! extensions available that can add functionality to your Web site. Some popular examples include:

  • VirtueMart – The complete e-Commerce shopping cart solution for Joomla!
  • Xmap – Sitemap generator component
  • Joom!Fish – Translation control for a multilingual Web site
  • DOCman – Comprehensive document management system
  • Googlemaps Plugin – For the display of Google Maps
  • Jevents – Joomla! events calendar
  • AllVideos – Embed videos inside content items
  • View the main Joomla! Web site for more information

Joomla Sites by Avatar

Avatar have designed a wide range of Joomla! sites for clients, see our Joomla! Web sites portfolio for some examples.

"We were after a solution that gave our team maximum control over the site with minimum effort and Joomla has served this purpose perfectly. The system is very easy to use and we are particularly pleased with the fact the content gets well indexed on all key search engines. I'd also like to give a thanks to Avatar who always offers simple and easy to follow instructions if we do get stuck."
Neil Henderson, Flying Kiwi Adventure Tours