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Joomla!

Congratulations! You have a Joomla! site! Joomla! makes it easy to build a website just the way you want it and keep it simple to update and maintain.

Joomla! is a flexible and powerful platform, whether you are building a small site for yourself or a huge site with hundreds of thousands of visitors. Joomla is open source, which means you can make it work just the way you want it to.

Explore the articles and other resources right here on your site data to learn more about how Joomla works.(When you're done reading, you can delete or archive all of this.) You will also probably want to visit the beginners' areas of the Joomla documentation and support forums.

You'll also want to sign up for the Joomla Security Mailing list and the Announcements mailing list.

Upgraders

If you are an experienced Joomla! 1.5 user, this Joomla! site will seem very familiar. There are new templates and improved user interfaces, but most functionality is the same. The biggest changes are improved access control (ACL) and nested categories. This release of Joomla! has strong continuity with Joomla! 1.6 while adding enhancements.

The Parks sample site is designed as a simple site that can be routinely updated from the front end of Joomla!. As a site, it is largely focused on a blog which can be updated using the front end article submission.

New weblinks can also be added through the front end. A simple image gallery uses com_content with thumbnails displayed in a blog layout and full size images shown in article layout.

The Parks site features the language switch module. All of the content and modules are tagged as English (en-GB). If a second language pack is added with sample data this can be filtered using the language switch.

Parks uses HTML5 which is a major web standard (along with XHTML which is used in other areas of sample data).