How many times have you wished you could simply make a change or two on your website without involving others?

Using a Content Management System (CMS) is the key to getting control of your website.  If you don't have the inclination to make website changes, a CMS is still going to allow your web design firm to be more efficient and timely when it comes to changes.  In the past, a CMS was extremely expensive and complicated to setup.   Today, the open source CMS choices available provide a CMS at virtually the cost of hosting.  The software is basically free. 

Marketing with Hot Peppers has chosen Joomla to be the CMS of choice for our bundled packages and services. 

Here are some of the product highlights of Joomla:

Content Management

Creating content is simple with the WYSIWYG editor, giving even novice users the ability to combine text, images in an attractive way. Once you've created your articles, there are a number of pre-installed modules to show the most popular articles, latest new items, newsflashes, related articles, and more.

Blogging

Joomla has a blog layout tool to allow you to create and publish blogs regularly.  The word blog is short for Weblog. Blogs are normally small, personal sites where one writes down his/her thoughts on a certain subject. It can be thought of as a not-so-personal online diary. Your blog can be about anything you want. Many companies use blogs to spread information on a product or service. Maybe you have a certain hobby you love, you can start up a blog about and who knows, perhaps other hobbyists will find your site and share your passion.

User Management

Joomla has a registration system that allows users to configure personal options. There are nine user groups with various types of permissions on what users are allowed to access, edit, publish and administrate.

Media Manager

The Media Manager is the tool for easily managing media files or folders. The Media Manager is integrated into the Article Editor tool so you can grab images and other files at any time.

Banner Management

It's easy to set up banners on your Web site using the Banner Manager, starting with creating a client profile. Once you add campaigns and as many banners as you need, you can set impression numbers, special URLs, and more.

Search

Help navigate users to most popular search items and provide the admin with search statistics.

Template Management

Templates in Joomla are a powerful way to make your site look exactly the way you want and either use a single template for the entire site or a separate template for each site section. The level of visual control goes a step further with powerful template overrides, allowing you to customize each part of your pages.

Syndication and Newsfeed Management

With Joomla, it's easy to syndicate your site content, allowing your users to subscribe to new content in their favorite RSS reader. It's equally easy to integrate RSS feeds from other sources and aggregate them all on your site.

Polls

If you want to find out more about your users, it's easy to create polls with multiple options.

Extensibility

These are just some of the basic Joomla features and the real power is in the way you customize Joomla. Visit the Joomla Extensions Directory to see thousands of ways to enhance Joomla to suit your needs.