A Content Management System (CMS) is a way to make your website simultaneously much more powerful and much easier to maintain.  CMS-based websites are database-driven and allow you to easily and effectively create, edit, review, index, search, publish and archive different kinds of digital media and text.

At SQC we specialize in developing websites using the world's most popular open-source CMS - Joomla (www.joomla.org).  Joomla combines power and ease of use into a software package that anyone can get the hang of in less than an hour.  If you can send an email, you'll have no trouble learning how to administer your own Joomla-based website.  And the price is certainly right - the core Joomla software is available entirely free of charge.

Joomla can be used to create corporate websites or portals, company intranets or extranets, online magazines, newspapers, and publications, fullly e-commerce capable online stores, online booking and reservation systems for hotels and restaurants, small business web sites, web sites for non-profit organizations, community-based websites, social networking websites, school website, personal or family homepages, blogs, photo and video galleries, custom online applications, job directories, and much more.

Because Joomla is open source, users are free to create extensions that add to the basic features of the package.  There are currently more than 4,500 extensions available for Joomla, most of them free of charge, adding everything from image galleries to discussion forums to mailing list management and much more. 

The Joomla user community is very large and very enthusiastic.  The program is extremely well supported and will be around for many years to come.