You are probably wondering why to even consider using a ready-made free solution like the Joomla! CMS. If it was any good it wouldn't be free of charge, right? Wrong! The prejudice against free software lays in the misconception about the core values it is based upon. It is free not because it is less powerful or professional or because the developers are a bunch of starting up kids with too much free time on their hands. Trust us, you would have to be filthy rich to hire just one of the members from the core-dev team. It is not about charity either, let's get real. Then what is it about? It's about the freedom to run, study, copy, improve and distribute the software.

Ok, you're an averagely knowledgeable computer user, always looking for the 'next' button when coming accross the term 'license agreement', can this be affecting you directly? Joomla (from the Swahili word 'jumla') means 'all together' and that is what will act on your behalf. Imagine having the time, experience and dedication of hundreads of developers from all around the world at your disposal, working together to make your project better and more functional. Joomla! itself is just the starting point, there are already over 1600 extensions, some of them powerful enough to be considered a CMS inside the CMS. Why hire a whole team of developers and pay for months of their work if in the hands of a skillfull webdeveloper Joomla is like clay and can meet your demands in a fraction of the time and for the fraction of the money.