Free CMS Websites?

So at Fine Line IT, we mainly develop websites using the Joomla platform. We have had great success using the platform so far with the few expected annoyances. For the most part it is free, enough of the components / modules work great and the platform is easy enough to customize for your needs when the Joomla component doesn't work just right.

The main reason anyone goes to an Open Source CMS platform is that it is free. Nothing beats free, right? When, we began the process of starting Fine Line IT, we decided we like free. We looked intensely for all products that were of no monetary costs. While other options exist in the free CMS arena, for various reasons, we chose Joomla.

So far, we have been impressed with Joomla. We have been able to accomplish everthing we want in a website using the CMS application and several of its components. I will begin to discuss the different components we use on another post. Suffice to say, if you look hard enough at the 1,000's of components Joomla developers offer, you can find a good quality free one that is close enough to solving your solution (forms, photo galleries, google map, etc) that it can be customized slightly to be perfect.

In the coming months, I will descuss in detail some of the components that we use and how we use them to build great quality websites.