Joomla Programming

Altalingo specializes in custom website design and development of the Joomla CMS including custom Joomla themes, modules, components, upgrades, data migration, site conversions to and from Joomla and other programming services. We recommend using Joomla as the basis for administrator driven sites such as real estate.

We can design a professional HTML template with appropriate CSS, turn it into a custom Joomla theme, configure a site to your specifications and create modules and perform other programming as needed. We have long expierince with many existing Joomla modules such as Hot Property, Joomfish, and dozens of others. Click here for a list of Joomla components.

Since pictures are worth a thousand words and a fully functioning prototype perhaps even more, please feel free to take a look at one of our custom Joomla websites: Acapulco Real Estate

What is Joomla?

Joomla! is a Web CMS (content management system) for use with the Internet or private networks. Elements include services like printable pages, Web feeds (RSS), blogs, polling, searches, page caching and language internationalization.

Joomla! is a fork from Mambo, and is free and open-source software. It was written in PHP and uses MySQL for the database. Mambo is also a Web CMS, open-source and in wide use. In August of 2005 the entire Mambo development team departed Miro International Pty Ltd., which had been supporting Mambo development. The dispute centered on the transfer of Mambo to a private foundation. The developers believed this would insulate the project from the Mambo user community and from any influence of the developers themselves. The developer group then formed OpenSourceMatters and re-released Mambo as Joomla! 1.0.0 in September of 2005. "Joomla" comes from a Swahili word meaning "all together." Like Mambo, Joomla! has since won awards for its features, functionality and availability.

Joomla! is modular, permitting "plug-ins" or "extensions" to be added easily. More than 2,000 such extensions are available through a directory found on OpenSourceMatters, the developer Web site. "Components" are extensions that essentially are routines to help webmasters. Examples are content translation, backup, search-engine-friendly URL creation. "Modules" execute discrete tasks, like displaying calendars or clocks and inserting code.