As with previous releases, Joomla! provides a unified and easy-to-use framework for delivering content for Web sites of all kinds. To support the changing nature of the Internet and emerging Web technologies, Joomla! required substantial restructuring of its core functionality and we also used this effort to simplify many challenges within the current user interface. Joomla! 1.5 has many new features.

In Joomla! 1.5, you''ll notice:

• Substantially improved usability, manageability, and scalability far beyond the original Mambo foundations
• Expanded accessibility to support internationalisation, double-byte characters and right-to-left support for Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew languages among others
• Extended integration of external applications through Web services
• Enhanced content delivery, template and presentation capabilities to support accessibility standards and content delivery to any destination
• A more sustainable and flexible framework for Component and Extension developers
• Backward compatibility with previous releases of Components, Templates, Modules, and other Extensions

The authentication plugins operate when users login to your site or administrator. The Joomla! authentication is in operation by default but you can enable Gmail or LDAP or install a plugin for a different system. An example is included that may be used to create a new authentication plugin.

Default on:

• Joomla

Default off:

• Gmail
• LDAP

If this is your first Joomla site or your first web site, you have come to the right place. Joomla will help you get your website up and running quickly and easily.

Start off using your site by logging in using the administrator account you created when you installed Joomla!.

The banner module is used to display the banners that are managed by the banners component in the site administrator. Help.

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