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How many times are you sitting around blogging wondering if there’s life beyond Wordpress? Yea, me neither, but I happened to stumble on this Okinawa Travel website that makes me think that Joomla might be getting a little stronger than it was when I knew it as Mambo, the open source CMS. They’ve (Joomla) really got their act together compared to those days. Looking back, development of Joomla seems like the dark ages.

This site has an interesting setup for their Okinawa Japan Pictures gallery. Not real sure what gallery plugin they use, but the layout could be better. The RSS feed layout is nice, but doesn’t really work for me. They may wish to look for other options for the RSS feed syndication, but that appears to be another weakness of Joomla also.

In case you didn’t know, Joomla has been back-to-back winner of the best content management system award for years now, and it’s FREE as in beer. The one thing they really need to beef up is their out-of-the-box search engine friendly URL’s, they just aren’t there, but that’s supposed to be addressed in the 1.5 version. There are tens of thousands of open source junkies that crawl their forums helping to develop this content management system. Some are avid defenders of the faith, and others quickly wake up to reality when they try to set up a simple blog, which is hardly as easy to manage as Wordpress.

Well, it’s worth checking out, for those who are reading this wondering what the heck Joomla is, Joomla is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable…according to them anyway!