Creating Membership Web Sites Using Joomla Content Management System

Using Joomla to create membership sites that provide you with a recurring monthly income is one of the best ways to get started making money on the internet.

What is Joomla, you might ask, because a lot of people may have never heard of Joomla.

Joomla is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications, and of course membership sites, which is what we are primarily interested in here.

Best of all, and especially for your pocketbook, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everybody. You can download it for free and install and use it for free. Can’t beat that!

Joomla is used all over the world to power everything from simple, personal web sites & home pages to complex corporate web applications, and, of course, membership sites.

The possibilities are limitless.

Here are just a few of the many ways people use Joomla:

* Corporate websites or portals
* Online commerce
* Small business websites
* Non-profit and organizational websites
* Government applications
* Corporate intranets and extranets
* School and church websites
* Personal or family homepages
* Community-based portals
* Magazines and newspapers
* Membership Sites
* And there are many, many more…

I personally know that some of the “big guns” in the membership site business use Joomla to manage their sites.

Joomla can be used to easily manage every aspect of your website, from adding content and images to updating a product catalog or taking online reservations.

The basic Joomla package is designed to be easy to install, even for non-programmers and beginner internet marketers. Most people have no trouble getting the software up and running, and there is plenty of support available for newbies.

There are numerous forums available, and forum members can usually answer most near any questions you might have.

To give you a real jump-start on getting Joomla installed and configured on your web site as quickly and as easily as possible, a video tutorial on how to install & configure Joomla content management system can be a real time saver.

Once Joomla is installed and running, it is very simple for even non-technical users to add or edit content, update images, and to manage the critical data that makes your membership site go.

Anybody with basic word processing skills can easily learn to manage a Joomla site. It is the ideal solution for managing a successful membership site.

If you want to get your Joomla based membership site up and running as quickly and as easily as possible, then you may be interested in a video tutorial series that shows you exactly how to build a membership site using Joomla.

Using a simple, browser-based interface you will be able to easily add new press releases or news items, add member content and downloads, product images, and create an unlimited amount of sections or content pages on your site.

Out of the box, Joomla does a great job of managing the content needed to make your website something special. But for many people, the true power of Joomla lies in the application framework that makes it possible for thousands of developers around the world to create powerful add-ons and extensions.

Here are just some examples of the hundreds of available extensions:

* Dynamic form builders
* Business or organizational directories
* Document management
* image and multimedia galleries
* E-commerce and shopping cart engines
* Forums and chat software
* Calendars
* Blogging software
* Directory services
* Email newsletters
* Data collection and reporting tools
* Banner advertising systems
* Subscription services
* and many, many more…

Learn more about Joomla features at: http://www.joomla.org/

Take a look at some of the really professional looking templates available at:
RocketTheme Template Club

So what’s the catch to using Joomla?

There is no catch. Joomla! is free, open, and available to all under the GPL license.

Membership sites are one of the fastest and easiest ways to create a recurring monthly pay check. If you have a passion for a subject, a hobby, or an expertise in almost any field, then there is probably a demand for a membership site.

Give it a go, you may be surprised at the results.

Lewis Poteet