When starting a small online business, one of the first things owners think about is how to enhance their online web presence without spending a lot of money. Open source content management systems have enabled small business owners to manage their Web sites themselves while offering cool and innovative user experience enhancements developed by the open source community.
Over the past few years, Joomla has risen up as one of the top CMS open source solutions for businesses. Below are a few of the components that are freely available , yet offer small businesses the opportunity to offer unique and engaging products to their consumers.
Components
Jfusion – This is a cool component that allows you to authenticate your users across multiple open source software products. The current supported products are phpBB, SMF, vBulletin, Magento, Moodle, and myBB. Now your users wont need to create separate user accounts in Joomla and your phpBB forum. This software will automatically create a phpBB user account when your visitors create their Joomla account. How cool is that! Also single sign-on is supported.
JoomlaXplorer – is a file and FTP manager that allows you to manage your files and folders through an interface right within Joomla. This will save your business time when managing and updating your site content and download-able offerings.
ProjectFork – This component is a powerful project management solution that will allow you to manage and share your projects online. This is a great tool for collaboration of projects inside and outside of your organization. The features include a task manager, file repository, calendar, time tracking, and much more.
DOCMan – is a document management system that allows you to coordinate your documents effectively online. Through this system you can also offer conditional rules for downloading based on custom groups and users. You can also use the system as part of an digital document e-commerce solution and sell your publications online.
As you see, your small business can accomplish a lot without breaking the bank. If your using Joomla, you should take advantage of these components and see how fast your business can grow.
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