UK Joomla Hosting
We offer a UK web hosting plan that works well for UK Joomla hosting. Our lowest plan isn’t large enough to host Joomla, but our UK home hosting plan and UK business hosting plan are both ideal. If you want a large Joomla site to host an online shop, we recommend you try our UK eCommerce hosting plan. We do offer free automatic upgrades if you’re not sure so you can upgrade if you need to, and a 14 day money back guarantee, so you’ve got nothing to lose!
Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to easily create websites. There are plenty of varied templates and themes available, so you don’t have to know how to make your own to have the perfect design to suit you. This is one of the reasons Joomla is so popular: it’s easy to use and very flexible.
You can see what we mean by having a look at the Joomla demo!
More About Joomla!
Joomla is versatile, well-tested and extensively documented, along with being supported by its huge community of developers and users to help you. There are often brand new extensions released to perform a variety of functions on your website, be it access and security or design and appearance. Joomla, along with many extensions and templates online, is absolutely free with our UK web hosting plans, and can be installed easily with one click of our script installer, Softaculous.
If you think you would like to use Joomla but you’re unsure where to start, there is an Absolute Beginners Guide to using Joomla.A lot of people are put off by Joomla because they find it confusing to configure. Joomla can be challenging to learn, but not impossible, and once you know how to do it, you can do almost anything with it as it’s so configurable. You will need to learn what articles, menus, modules, components, module positions, and extensions are and how they all work; if you get stuck, there is a huge community of users and developers to help, as well as excellent documentation.
Joomla Templates
If you’re a web developer, then you’ll love Joomla’s customisability; web designers will love it because it can be used to create many professional looking designs. Also, if you learn to design great quality Joomla templates, there’s always the market to sell them.
If you don’t have the technical knowledge, you can still create your ideal website using many free or premium Joomla themes. There are many out there that are not only functional but also very attractive, but be aware that some templates may not have the functions or documentation to perform what you want, so you could end up frustrated. If you’re after some really good templates, try out these template clubs:
Is Joomla Right for You?
Joomla is capable of many different kinds of websites. If you want a basic information site, Joomla is ideal. Also, if you want to use Joomla to create and run an online store, then you can download VirtueMart, an open-source ecommerce solution component for Joomla. Like Joomla, VirtueMart is not very easy to learn, and may be difficult to configure, but many users find it very easy. If you are experienced with Joomla, you should find this easy enough, but if you aren’t, there are plenty of other eCommerce options for you.