Joomla is a free, open source CMS, written in PMP using object-oriented programming that also allows data storage, page cache, printable page versions, news flashes, blogs, polls and more. Surpassing 23 million downloads, it holds 23.5 percent of the market. Powering 1.4 million websites and going strong, Joomla is growing everyday with its community of developers that update and enhance the website. Unlike WordPress created by Matt Mullenweg, Joomla has no one founder yet continues to be ran and maintained by its 250k developers and publishers. These developers are able to resource and build software projects, tools and over eight thousand extensions now under the Joomla platform. It?s relatively unheard of in the U.S. but running websites in over 200 countries, including international governmental agencies like NASA and the US Army.

Nowadays WordPress is told to be the one of the largest self-hosted tool used for blogging every day. Thanks to the WordPress platform Web Designers and Web Developers may easily create fast and user friendly websites.
You can download this software on the official WordPress website. All you need is a webhost with minimum requirements and a little bit of technical knowledge. WordPress is entirely configurable to you and it can be used in many aspects connected with creating and designing websites.

You surely would like to know why the WordPress is so helpful. Simply because it started as a blogging system, but has evolved as a full content management system. Thanks to plugins, different themes and widgets it turned to become even much more than just a system. It is a very useful tool only limited by your invention, imagination and creativity. This is how you can connect with the rest of the world. It has a web template system which means it uses a template processor. Users of the WordPress system are able to arrange and re-arrange widgets without editing PHP or HTML code.

WordPress wasn’t the first invention this kind, but it is the fresh one, unique and more stable product, which focuses on web standards and users expectations. It’s precursor was a publishing system called b2/cafelog, commonly known as a b2 or just cafelog from 2001. It was written by Michel Valdrighi in 2003 as a joint effort between him and Matt Mullenweg. It’s name was suggested by their friend ? Christine Selleck. WordPress has few awards on its account, for example in 2007 it won a prestige Pact Open Source CSM Award and in 2009 WordPress occurred to be the best winning another Open Source SMS Award. It was released several times and most of releases were named after jazz musician stars.

An official announcement from wordpress.org:
WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard). Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies. (Twenty Ten theme shows all of that off.) Developers and network admins will appreciate the long-awaited merge of MU and WordPress, creating the new multi-site functionality which makes it possible to run one blog or ten million from the same installation. As a user, you will love the new lighter interface, the contextual help on every screen, the 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements, bulk updates so you can upgrade 15 plugins at once with a single click, and more.