Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

A content management system is software that keeps track of every piece of content on your Web site, much like your local public library keeps track of books and stores them. Content can be simple text, photos, music, video, documents, or just about anything you can think of. A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage. Since the CMS manages all your content, you don't have to.

At Red Bean we started creating Joomla sites as a very cost effective way of giving musicians a fully functioning site that they can update themselves as often as they like. Because Joomla is modular, with new modules being developed all the time, we can add galleries, media players, video players, mailing list software, gig list software, etc.

We can offer a simple installation and hosting service for those who are confident about building their own Joomla sites. Or we can actually install the templates and modules that you need so that you only need to log in from the front end and update content. We'll also be regularly adding to a series of instructional sheets to help you get the most out of your Joomla site.