Joomla is a powerful framework for delivering Complex web portals. With over 4700 extensions and counting, the largest developer network in the world and the most user friendly interface has made the award winning Joomla CMS the fastest growing open source CMS project perhaps in the world. With millions of users and enthusiasts from all around the globe and a low cost of entry this is quickly becoming the dominant content management system (CMS) for small businesses (SMB's) and even larger enterprises and institutions.

Step One: Defining your business goals. The first step in this process is to clearly understand what the goals are for investing your time and money into this project. What quantifiable results do you want to achieve with this initiative and who else will be involved in the process of achieving these goals. Very much like starting any new business you want a clear understanding of your SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats).

It is obvious that updating Joomla Core is a very complicated and time-consuming task and sometimes a small mistake in the process can play havoc in the final result.

However after long time a company named Realtyna Inc. has created an Extension called Magic Updater and it enables you to automatically update your Joomla sites easily. It consists of a Component and a Plug-in that together provide all the necessary features for a safe transition to a new Joomla version.

This article will help you greatly speed up the process of updating your Joomla.

JoomlaEnergy released VM Products from Categories 1.0. This module shows the latest virtuemart products from the selected categories (separated by comma).

Reams have been written for and against Joomla Content Management System (CMS). The usual refrain is that Joomla is not a best bet in terms of Search Engine friendliness. However, this is the view of those amateurs who really don’t know how to optimize the power of this Content Management System.

You can make money with Joomla Affiliate Programs. Many Joomla developers offers Joomla Affiliates Programs for thei services and give you commisions to promote their services. Here is a Joomla Affiliate Programs list.

Almost a year passed sice Joomla became a real CMS. Now it's time to make a little study to find if it's still growing and if it's more powerful than Mambo. A few days ago Google released Google Trends , a nice and helpful tool for webmasters. This study is based on searches made by regular users on Google. I must say that this tool has a small problem. It doesn't show the number of searches (probably milions) but you will see that it give us a clue where Joomla is compared to Mambo.

It's the timeless question: how do you get other sites to link to you? The most commonly discussed ways are reciprocal linking (swapping links) and buying links. Yet there's another important tool for building links that should be a part of your toolbox: distributing content in exchange for one-way inbound links.

Based on our last week poll we have noticed that a small number of webmasters are using Joomla for blogging. I think that Joomla is offering a very well endowed environment and maybe the Joomla dev team should focus on attracting as many bloggers as possible. Right now, as you read these lines, there are more than 30 million bloggers all over the world ...and counting. Even if a great deal of them is using free bolggs, there are plenty of them that own or wish to buy their own blogging domain. If those would be attracted to Joomla, the number of Joomla users would exponentially increase.