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Whether you want to develop a website or start your own blog, Joomla has proven to be the most useful free open source Content Management System (CMS) for easy website development and management.  Joomla’s popularity among the web community has risen tremendously over the last few years. Since it’s inception in 2005, there have been more than 15 million downloads of Joomla CMS. According to the 2009 Open Source CMS Market Share Report, Joomla is the most popular open source CMS. So, what are the reasons for Joomla’s amazing popularity?

The main reasons of rapid growth of Joomla Community are:

Joomla is very easy to install. Whether you want to install Joomla on you local machine or on a Web Server, you just need to follow few simple steps to get started with your website. You just need to download and extract the Joomla installation zip file and follow few basic steps like giving you database configuration and you are done.

Joomla is Free. You get a fully functional Website development kit completely free of cost. Also there are lots of free Joomla extensions and free templates available. This saves you a lot of money which could have been spent on buying a costly CMS or website building softwares.

Joomla is easily Extensible and Customizable. While Joomla is self sufficient and feature rich by itself, if you need to build a sophisticated website or add some extra functionality then there are more than 4000 free or inexpensive add-ons available for Joomla. This makes Joomla a very powerful CMS for developing any kind of website from simple blogs to sophisticated portals or ecommerce sites.

Joomla has Flexible layout template system. There are 1000s of free high quality Joomla Templates available. You can easily change the look and feel of your website by changing the Joomla Template.

Joomla is SEO optimized. For bringing visitors to your website, it needs to be optimized well with various Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques and tricks. Joomla has a built-in SEO system to make your site rank better in search engines. Using Joomla SEF component you can make your web pages URL search engine friendly. You can also create google sitemap or choose a SEO optimized template.

Joomla has excellent community support. Joomla has a very large user base and active developer community of more than 200,000 people. 1000s of developers keep developing new Joomla extensions, modules and templates. If you have any problems, then you can quickly get help from many large active Joomla Forums and groups.

Joomla has built-in multilingual support. Using Joomla you can easily build website in many languages. So, you can interact with your visitors in their own language.

Joomla is very easy to manage. Even a non-technical user can manage his content very easily in Joomla by post articles and images.