Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. There are functional and attractive design templates available for information and ecommerce based websites. Many plug-ins are also available to customize your project. A major advantage to a CMS is that the web pages are conastructed on-the-fly in your web browser. All articles and modules are pulled from your database. Because the CMS takes expertise to build, the initial construction cost is higher, but the speed and ease of long-term maintenance is well worth this initial investment.