| By now most web developers and designers have | | | | professionalism without costing thousands of dollars, |
| heard of Joomla because of its ease of use and its | | | | they will most likely choose Joomla and pair that with a |
| effectiveness as a fully featured and open sourced | | | | professionally designed template from one of the |
| CMS. The backend is very powerful but easy enough | | | | major template clubs. |
| for someone without much experience. In that respect | | | | There is now a large Joomla marketplace solely |
| Joomla has been increasing its presence all over the | | | | because of this fact. If you want to remain competitive |
| world. | | | | with your peers, competitors, and other Joomla |
| Joomla's back end is what the administrator and | | | | designers than it would be very wise to be a part of a |
| developers use to build the structure of the site | | | | Joomla template club. Not all clubs are created equally |
| however it must be tied with an equally impressive | | | | though, as with everything, some are better than |
| front end: the template. There are many free | | | | others and it makes sense to look around and see |
| templates in Joomla and rarely, if ever, will you find one | | | | which clubs consistently provide the best templates. |
| that isn't cookie cutter or bare bones. The free | | | | Joomla is continuing to grow at very fast paces due to |
| templates in all respects are very weak especially if | | | | its ease of use for novice and experienced designers |
| you have any experience with free templates from | | | | and developers. At every corner you turn there is |
| wordpress which are much more impressive. But the | | | | another person praising Joomla for its effectiveness |
| professional template clubs fill that void. | | | | and all around perfection. I would urge anyone |
| Joomla is often used by professional web designers | | | | interested in Joomla to get some shared hosting and |
| who are building sites for their clients cost effectively. | | | | play around with Joomla. Show it off to your friends |
| A client who wants a site built with Joomla does so to | | | | and pretty soon one of them will ask for a site from |
| save tremendous amounts of money as developers | | | | you and you will be on your way to becoming a |
| don't come cheap. So for the site to uphold its | | | | Joomla developer. |