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Hi everyone. You've probably already expressed what you think about Joomla in posts in other areas but I'd like some feedback here.

Could you jump in here and post in as few words as possible, what you like about Joomla! (I'll kick it off). What I'm looking for is your top of mind thoughts ... or what pops into your head immediately.

1. Friendly
2. Easy to use
3. Saves me money

These are examples, you can agree with these if you like or you may have other ideas.

Please share them.

Thanks in advance,

Pete

. open
. community
. easy

(ps : no numbers, because no preference on these..)

1. User Friendly
2. Open Source
3. Great Community

1. Ease of installation, configuration, maintenance and use.
2. $0.00 cost
3. open source license.

1. Easy template integration
2. Flexible
3. The most dedicated core developers 

- Looks good without hassle (rhuk)
- Feels solid
- Lots of expansion opportunities.

power
support
extensible

1. community
2. easy to use
3. open source / free

1. Nice code
2. Free licence as in freedom
3. Community

Non commercial
Full solution set
Professional       

1. Powerful
2. Free
3. Keeps Me Busy

1) Powerful
2) Open Source
3) Highly Customizable

Flexible
Low server requirements (small basic installation)
Active community

In random order, because it's hard to choose 

- great community
- free
- powerfull/easy extendable

Easy to use
Its Free
Good support forum

- Very active community
- User friendly
- Lots of extra CMT's

Supported - as shown by this community
Extensible - as shown by some excellent 3PO stuff and the odd code tweak
Deployable - you can (just about) get it working out of the box, from which point the world is your lobster 

Gary

Modular
Ease of use
Great Community

1. The community, the best open-source support I've ever received!
2. Great add-on selection from an active development community!
3. Easy to use/costs nothing, what more can you say?

I guess number three counts as three and four, but I needed more items than just three!

yup, agree with most of ya,

1. Easy
2. Free
3. Efficient

1) Thumbs up; Great Code. 
2) Two thumbs up; Great portability and modular. (is it modularity or modularness or modularbility)
3) Three thumbs up; Great Price.

1. Seriously USER Friendly {though I'm still trying to figure out how to embed a partners button on the menu without hardcoding in the index}
2. Fast & Aesthetically designed
3. .... good community

AA

Professional - state of the art solution
Extensible
Community of support

I´m not gonna be original;

- Easy to use
- Great community support
- the fact that it would develop stronger as time passes by due to the second reason.

Ease of use
Flexibility
Stability

Many free and commercial 3PD
Many free and commercial templates
Lively Support

summary: what better way is there to learn?

1. Active development of core and projects.
2. Easy adoption by clients.
3. I may be able to finally retire the CMS I wrote 5 years ago.

Hi, there. I am new to jloomla, actually I am on the second day into it. Before Joomla I used phpnuke and open source blog software such as b2, wordpress, etc. I would agree with you that joomla is a top CMS. But this is not because of what you guys have said. It is free of money. But there are so many out there which are also free. it is not because of easy. it is actually not easy. How many steps you need to go through to write your front page news? so many. so it won't be efficient. a good thing about CMS of this kind is the community. it works for community and builds community. but there are other CMS system there which work on the same manner. To me, the elegant design, the color, the icons, and the add-ons make joomla a bit of standing out among others. Other than that, there are somethings that do not make sense to me. For example, i installed jd-wordpress, but I still have not figured out how to make its sidebar work. without a menu, the wordpress is only a single webpage. so why bother? I can tell it is a lot more easier to configure, manage, and update (including adding in plugin, etc.) a weblog than CMS system like Joomla. unless you need so many potential functions it is inefficient to use Joomla vs. wordpress.
just want to share some different thoughts. I like Joomla though. thank you.

I like so many things about Joomla.    But to just name three I would say:

• IT'S FREE
• EASE OF OPERATION
• IT'S FREE
• THIS COMMUNITY
• IT'S FREE
• ADDON FLEXIBILTY

By the way did I mention ... it was FREE 

Thannks for sharing! 

1) Great commmunity
2) Open source
3) Lots of good work inside and outside the "core"