Joomla® — The Flexible Platform Empowering Website Creators
Joomla! is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build web sites and powerful online applications.
Multizone have been building websites and content management solutions with Joomla since its inception in 2005 and love it. it may not have the market share of some of the competition, but it is award-winning, free and open-source.
Joomla! has a global community of developers and volunteers, who make sure the platform is user friendly, extendable, multilingual, accessible, responsive, search engine optimized and more.
How to get started with Joomla!
Joomla! is free, open, and available to anyone under the GPL. If you are unfamiliar with this license, you might want to read the GNU General Public License FAQ. Read Getting Started with Joomla! to find out the basics.
If you're ready to install Joomla! by yourself ou can download the latest version of Joomla! and you'll be up and running in no time.
Joomla tech notes and demos
Buttons in Joomla with Bootstrap 5.3
As of 2026, Joomla ships with Bootstrap 5.3, and its button system is one of the most practical parts of the framework to understand. Whether you are building a custom template, overriding a core layout, or crafting a module, Bootstrap's button classes give you a consistent, accessible set of interactive controls that work across forms, dialogs, toolbars, and anywhere else a user needs to take action.
TL:DR – Bootstrap, included with Joomla, is a free and open-source CSS framework aimed at helping build fast, responsive web sites.
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Module positions in the Cassiopeia template for Joomla
Cassiopeia remains the default front-end template shipped with Joomla 4 and Joomla 5, and as of 2026 it continues to be the baseline that most Joomla site builders start from before customising or switching to a child template. Understanding its module position system is foundational whether you are building a new site on Joomla 5.x or maintaining a site that migrated from an older version.
TL:DR – I keep looking for module positions in the Cassiopeia template for Joomla so I documented it.
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Adding a responsive banner to the topbar in Cassiopeia for Joomla 5 and 6
Cassiopeia remains the default front-end template shipped with Joomla 5 and Joomla 6, and it continues to offer clean, flexible layout control — including a dedicated topbar position that makes adding a full-width responsive banner straightforward.
This site carries a banner above the site logo and navigation menu. It sits in the topbar module position and resizes automatically when the template is set to fluid layout. If you want to get that effect on your own Joomla site, there are now two practical routes: the classic Custom module approach, or our more capable Cassiopeia Themer extension, which gives you a visual control panel for banners, typography, colour palettes, and marketing scripts without touching any CSS manually. Both are covered below.
TL:DR – We wrote the Cassiopeia Themer extension because we kept bumping in to repetitive work with custom modules and wanted to make it easier to manage.
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Ridiculously Responsive Social Sharing Buttons is a plugin for Joomla
The joomlarrssb plugin adds social sharing buttons and Open Graph metadata tags to com_content items. It is an official Joomla Project plugin, originally built for the joomla.org website network, and fully compatible with Joomla 4.x, 5.x, and the newly released Joomla 6. It places clean, responsive sharing buttons on your content pages and — perhaps more valuably — automatically generates Open Graph tags for every article on your site.
TL:DR – Once built and uploaded, this just works. The Open Graph tag generation is reason enough to install it.
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Joomla and the end of Internet Explorer: the right call, fully vindicated
When Joomla! 4.0 shipped with Bootstrap 5 and dropped Internet Explorer support, it was a bold move that drew some grumbling from enterprise corners. In 2026, with Internet Explorer long since dead and buried by Microsoft itself, that decision looks not just correct but visionary. Here is why it mattered, what has happened since, and what it means for Joomla developers today.
TL:DR – If you are arriving at this article because someone in your organisation is still asking about Internet Explorer support: the answer is no, and it has been no for years. Point them to Microsoft's retirement announcement and move on. There is better work to be done.
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