Joomla! CMS
Joomla! is a powerful, open-source content management system (CMS) that serves as the foundation of your website. Think of it as the engine under the hood—it manages all your content, handles user permissions, and provides the tools you need to keep your site running smoothly. Unlike simpler platforms, Joomla offers exceptional flexibility for automation and customization, which means we can build systems that save you time while giving you control over your content. You don't need to be technical to use it—the interface is designed for business owners like you to manage pages and other content independently. Because it's open-source with a robust community behind it, you're not locked into proprietary software or ongoing licensing fees. We specialize in Joomla! because it strikes the perfect balance: powerful enough to grow with your business, yet manageable enough for you to handle day-to-day updates on your own.
Joomla! Official Knowledge Base - Documentation from the Joomla! organization.
Joomla! Guided Tours - Built-in Tours that walk you through common tasks within the Joomla! CMS
Basic Joomla Tutorials - Tim Davis YouTube tutorials - Hundreds of Joomla! tutorials on YouTube.
Joomla! Design
Your Joomla! website's appearance is controlled by a template—essentially a design framework that determines colors, layouts, fonts, and overall style across your entire site. The template sits on top of the Joomla! core and transforms your content into the professional design you see. To make building and customizing pages even easier, we integrate page builders that work within your template, giving you easy to use tools to create layouts without touching code. Think of it this way: Joomla is the engine, the template is the body and paint job, and the page builder is your toolkit for arranging the interior exactly how you want it. This layered approach means you can update individual pages, swap design elements, or even change your entire look down the road without rebuilding from scratch. We configure everything so you can make content changes and layout adjustments yourself, while we handle the technical foundation and remain available when you need expertise or want to expand your site's capabilities.
Joomla CK
Template-Creator - Webie Design Tutorial
Pagebuilder CK - Webie Design YouTube Tutorials
YooTheme
YooTheme - Yootheme documentation
SP Pagebuilder
SP Pagebuilder - Joomshaper documentation
Events/Calendars
An events calendar showcases your upcoming activities—whether they're in-person gatherings, virtual webinars, or community meetups. When you integrate a calendar component into your Joomla site, it becomes part of your automated marketing system: new events flow directly into your email newsletters and post automatically to your social media channels. You can manage both free community events and paid registrations from a single platform, streamlining how you promote activities and track attendance. This integration means you enter event details once and your marketing handles itself, saving time while keeping your audience informed across every channel they follow.
Events Booking
Joomdonation Documentation
Joomdonation Demo
JEvents
Working with Events in Joomla! – JEvents - Rutgers University
Demo - JEvents
E Commerce/Shopping Cart
A shopping cart component transforms your Joomla website into a complete online store, letting you sell products or services directly to customers. The right e-commerce solution integrates with your existing site rather than forcing you onto a separate platform. Your inventory, orders, and customer data live in one place alongside your content. You can manage product catalogs, process payments securely, track orders, and handle shipping calculations without leaving your Joomla dashboard. The e-commerce system connects to your automated marketing: new products can trigger email announcements and social media posts, abandoned carts can generate follow-up reminders, and purchase history can inform targeted campaigns. Whether you're selling physical products, digital downloads, or service bookings, the integration means less manual work and more consistent customer communication across all your channels.
Documentation - J2Commerce
Showcase - J2Commerce
Communities/Membership
Joomla! includes built-in user management and access control that provides the foundation for membership functionality. You can create user groups, control who sees what content, and manage basic member permissions right out of the box. For organizations ready to build vibrant online communities, Community Builder extends these capabilities into a complete social networking platform where members create rich profiles, connect with each other, share photos and updates, participate in group discussions, and engage through activity streams. Community Builder transforms your site from a simple membership roster into an interactive hub where your community actually lives and communicates. Additional options include memberships through paid subscriptions including powerful payment processing, recurring billing, membership tiers, and automatic access control—members get instant access to premium content when they subscribe, lose access when subscriptions expire, and can upgrade or downgrade plans as their needs change. Together, these tools let you build everything from simple member directories to complex community platforms with multiple subscription levels, automated renewals, group management, and complete social networking features. The integration means members manage everything from a single profile—their subscription status, payment history, community connections, and content access all work together seamlessly, while you maintain control through one unified system rather than juggling separate platforms.
Joomla! Features
Joomla's Access Control - Joomla! Documentation
Explore the Core: Controlling User Access - Joomla! News
Community Builder
Documentation - Community Builder
Demo - Community Builder
Membership Pro
Documentation - Membership Pro
Demo - Membership Pro
Email Newsletters
Email marketing remains the most powerful channel for reaching your audience because most people check their email daily, unlike social media algorithms that filter your posts or websites that require active visits. With enterprise-level newsletter management, you gain sophisticated automation workflows that send targeted sequences based on subscriber actions, drag-and-drop editors for creating professional campaigns without coding, detailed analytics tracking opens and clicks, and seamless integration with external delivery services. The economics are compelling when you compare the mailing with services like Mailchimp or Constant Contact for the same volume. Even better, your Joomla! content integrates directly into your newsletters through dynamic insertion—pull in your latest blog articles, product updates, event listings, or any other component data automatically, eliminating the need to manually recreate content across platforms. This integration saves hours of work while ensuring your email campaigns stay current with your website, turning your newsletter into an extension of your site rather than a separate system to maintain.
AcyMailing documentation
Tutorials - Webie Design Tutorials
Social Media Marketing
Social media presence doesn't have to mean hours of manual posting when your Joomla content includes properly configured Open Graph metadata, every article, product, or event you publish becomes instantly shareable with rich previews that display compelling images, headlines, and descriptions across Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and other platforms. This metadata lives right in your content management system, so when you publish an article or update a product listing, the social sharing information updates automatically. Take this a step further with automation that detects new content from your Joomla components—articles, events, products, blog posts—and posts them to your social channels on a schedule you control. Instead of logging into multiple platforms to announce the same content repeatedly, you create it once in Joomla and the system distributes it for you. The Open Graph integration ensures every share looks professional and intentional rather than displaying generic preview images or missing descriptions, while automation frees you from the repetitive task of cross-posting. Your social media becomes an extension of your content strategy rather than a separate workload, maintaining consistent presence across channels without demanding constant manual attention.
Search Engine Optimization
Joomla!'s SEO capabilities are built into its core architecture rather than bolted on as afterthoughts, giving you professional-grade optimization tools without relying on third-party plugins. The platform generates clean, semantic HTML that search engines can easily parse and understand, while the built-in metadata management lets you control titles, descriptions, and keywords for every page, article, and menu item directly from the content editor. Joomla!'s URL routing system creates search-friendly addresses that reflect your content structure—no cryptic parameters or database IDs cluttering your links—and the system handles canonical URLs automatically to prevent duplicate content penalties. The hierarchical menu structure creates logical site architecture that search engines reward, while the built-in redirect manager ensures you never lose SEO value when reorganizing content or updating URLs. Unlike platforms that require plugins for basic SEO functions or lock critical features behind premium tiers, Joomla! delivers professional optimization capabilities as standard equipment. You control alt text for images, heading hierarchies, mobile responsiveness, page speed optimization, and structured data markup all through the core system. This foundation means you start with solid SEO rather than spending time and money adding it later, and your optimization strategy integrates naturally with your content workflow instead of existing as a separate technical concern.