Joomla is a full-featured content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications or web portals. Joomla provides many useful features that simply make it a good choice to opt from a traditional HTML-based website to Joomla. 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.

Here are the 10 most powerful features of joomla content management system:

1. Multiple user access
   It proves as good help to multiple users as they can access the website at the same time; each user can access the website with his or her own user permissions. While developing a traditional website, developers have to add authentication and user access features but in Joomla, this is a built-in feature. Using it with extensions you can build a social networking website for little or almost no cost with faster rate compare to engaging developer to build the same.
2. Supports many international languages

   This will be really useful to you because if your business covers many regions across the world and only English readers are not your customers. When you install Joomla, it will work with a language extension, it is possible that for your website visitors to select a language in which they want to view your website. Imagine you will be able to customize the language with just one click of the mouse.

3. Better for your business

       * Open source code - you can get access to your source code
       * Supported by many developers all around the world
       * Huge amounts of online help to learn all aspects of running a Joomla website
       * A huge range of plug-in components which will save you money on development.
       * Continuously upgraded

4. WYSIWYG editor
       * Easily edit the site yourself
       * What You See is What You Get editor using buttons like in Microsoft Word
       * Control font colours, styles and layout
       * You can use font styles such as Heading 1 to make your site formatting consistent
       * Insert images
       * Insert links to PDFs or other documents
       * Insert links to other web pages or offsite to any URL
       * Insert a link to create an email to yourself
       * Full screen mode for easy editing
       * Drag and drop images around a web page
       * Insert tables
       * Create anchors
       * Paste from Word option (to delete HTML code written by Microsoft Word)
       * Insert numbered lists
       * Insert bulleted lists
       * Subscript
       * Superscript
       * Insert page breaks
       * Insert read more
       * Insert Youtube videos
       * Edit Page Keywords and Description
       * Edit HTML source code
   
   
5. Allows the use of many extensions
   This can be counted as one of the most useful feature of it. Extensions are software programs that are pre-installed onto an existing website which gives the website extra functionality which the standard that its installation doesn’t provide. With hundreds of available extensions, Joomla has power to do almost anything that a website wants without needing further customized development. All you need is to find the correct extension.
   
   
6. Easy for many people to work

    

   Now it’s not necessary to worry about an errant page destroying the look of your entire website. Once user has given the proper permissions, anyone with a web browser can create content to use on the website and can publish it . Furthermore, when you publish website again then the newly published pages across the website will have same template which makes sure a consistent look and feel is maintained across the entire website.
   
   

7. Templates are useful to achieve a consistent look and feel
   Now no need to worry about an errant page destroying the look of your entire website. Joomla shows all web pages within a template, and the template can be manipulated at any point in time. Due to the reason there is no need to go through each and every web page in order to change how it looks. Just one click is all it takes to change the look and feel of the entire website.
   
   
8. Working with pages on your site
       * Easily organise content into Sections and Categories for large sites
       * Copy pages
       * Delete pages
       * Archive pages
       * Automatically create blog-style pages eg showing the introduction to all articles in a category. These can be arranged by Alphatbet, Date, Author, Order and more
       * Search engine friendly
       * Have multiple templates for different areas of your site
       * Have different elements display in different areas of your site - eg banners, menus, advertisements
       * Easily Publish and Unpublish content
       * Automaticly start publishing content or finish publishing
   
   
9. Menu manager
       * Fully manage menus on your site - create new menu items, change spelling, change order
       * Multiple menus eg Main menu, side menu, footer
       * Easily create drop-down menus
       * Link directly to files eg PDFs
       * Link directly to other websites (eg any URL)
       * Easily Publish and Unpublish menu items
   
   
10. Some Default Features by Joomla
        * Advertising management (banners, etc)
        * Built-in Help files
        * Built-in site search engine
        * Build-in content syndication (RSS)
        * Create, publish, and reorder and edit articles in a click
        * Create your own publishing schedule
        * Content display scheduling
        * Completely database-driven site engines
        * Email-a-friend and Print-format(pdf) for every story and article
        * Easy to use graphical administrative interface
        * Text editor similar to Word Pad
        * News, products or services sections fully editable and manageable
        * News feed manager. Choose from over 400 news feeds from around the world
        * Trash Manager (A "Recycle Bin" for your web site)
        * Media (images, documents) upload and management
        * Search engine friendly (SEF) URL's
        * WYSIWYG content editor support (built into the CMS)
        * Simple polls