Joomla is a CMS used to create attractive, professional, & highly scalable web sites.  The essential purpose of a CMS is to simplify the management of a web site's content for administrative users.  A CMS utilizes a database to store all of the content of the web site.  Templates are used by the CMS to provide a theme (color scheme & layout) for the entire web site.

There are several advantages to using a CMS-based web site including:

• Greatly Reduced Costs to Web Site Owners
• Rapid Deployment of Web Sites
• Non-Technical Users Can Manage Web Sites
• Expansion of Web Site is Quick & Easy
• Consistent Look & Feel Throughout Web Site
• Reliability

Cruthers Enterprises is a web site solution provider that specializes in the Joomla CMS.  Joomla is widely supported, well documented, and highly customizable open-source software that is free.  There are numerous developers all over the world who create sophisticated applications (Extensions), which can be incorporated into web sites to perform special functions such as the rotating pictures on the CEWSS Home Page. Many of these applications are free, while others are offered for small fees.