You've plotted out your site map. Spent hours pouring over designs and color palettes. Tested your CSS. Made sure all the images link up properly. Your checklist is done and you're publishing your site. Congratulations! Time to crack open a champagne bottle and celebrate your victory.

Before the bubbles fizzle into the air, you realize you forgot to add something.You have new product information you want to go live immediately. The programmer has gone home for the evening and you're left panicking. What do you do?

It's an ugly scenario, but one that's all too common. After weeks of developing your web site, if you don't have the tools to edit the content to your satisfaction and timetable, you're left feeling trapped and helpless.

But there's a better way.


It's called Joomla. What is it? 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. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

Put simply, Joomla gives you, the user, the freedom to edit content, images and extend the functionality of your web site at your convenience.

Joomla is the most popular open source CMS currently available as evidenced by a vibrant and growing community of friendly users and talented developers. Joomla's roots go back to 2000 and, with over 200,000 community users and contributors, the future looks bright.

The best news is that you don't have to have a brand new site to run on Joomla. It can be installed on your current web site.

To see a sample of what Joomla looks like, contact Avant Garde today. We'll be happy to answer any questions you may have.