Joomla goes to the extreme to offer powerful simplicity to its users. Joomla’s backbone is developed in such a way that it requires minimum technical knowledge for using Joomla for maintaining or setting up a website. Joomla works well for medium to larger websites and is one of the best content management systems out there. It competes against the best, thus it is one of the best.

The basic advantages of Joomla are that it is intended to work flawlessly in necessary shared hosting environments, a package that is not at all expensive and very common. Installer is just like any other common software and is very simple. Joomla is supported by a number of extensions, plug-in and add-ons. They are written in PHP, which is widely used and is a general purpose scripting language which is also best suited for web development. Version 1.5 of Joomla is coming out soon with more user friendly and ready-to-use functions to build a sophisticated website with a lot of pages and a hierarchy of more than two-levels of complex navigation. Joomla is also integrated with CiviCRM and other widespread packages like DemocracyInAction or GetActive .If you have used Mambo earlier, an added advantage while using Joomla is that you will not have to learn anything basically as Mambo and Joomla are very similar so little learning is needed for the translation. Joomla has the almost the same advantages that Mambo has like modules, user accounts and components, as well as many other things. With all these features you can set up an allowances or restrictions to your users. It ultimately gives you a very strict control over your website. If you set it up in the same way, everything will works as you’d like, and nothing will be published or happen that you don’t approve.

Disadvantages:

One possible disadvantage of Joomla in future is that it is going to be different from Mambo. Gradually, Mambo and Joomla , both will keep evolving and one will overpower the other one. However, right now we cannot say which one that will it be at this time, so you must consider both the risks and the advantages. Another drawback of Joomla is that it can be hard to learn, disable some features, to make a template of your choice,  how to work in the beginning when you are just starting to work with Joomla. It is also a little difficult to get the hang of it, if you are really new to the Joomla-Mambo software.