Joomla 1.5 ~ A community management system?

Till now I have been talking about Joomla 1.5 being and excellent content management system for websites. I then introduced Joomla 1.5 to be the best for blogging. In this topic I will share my views regarding Joomla being the best community management system as well. I recently was working on a community website at my office where I found out that Joomla 1.5 has tremendous support for building one of the best communities over the internet. Joomla 1.5 is far more powerful than any web developer can think of. You only come to know about its hidden powers as you explore it further.

The actual power and strength of Joomla are its extensions. Don’t get confused by the word extensions as they are the modules/components I have been talking about earlier. Extensions are just another name to them. While building a community website the most powerful extension Joomla 1.5 provides you is the Community Builder Component. You can also get and additional and complete Community Management Suite. The main features of this component are integration with other modules, easier user registration, easy to understand connections between admin interface and user interface for the web developer.

The best part is that the Community Builder suite is available for free and can easily be downloaded at joomlapolis.com. You can find a large number of extra plugins there as well which will ultimately convert your little community website into a world class social networking community.

My experience with the Community Builder extension was flawless and very interesting. I am now off to download it at my home and use it to create my own personal little community. There may be one day that I will find my community list amongst one of the best social networking websites over the internet. The community Builder Suite has numerous plugins. You just need to explore them to know how to use each one aptly to increase the performance of your community. You can easily integrate other components like newsletter, galleries etc into your community as well. The Community builder suite has it all for you. The PMS extension is also made available at the community Builder Component by Joomla 1.5.