Joomla's registration system enables users to configure personal options. Determine which users are allowed to access, edit, publish and administrate. OpenID and Gmail authentication is available so users can use their existing account info to streamline the registration process.

Joomla's media manager is the perfect tool for easily managing media files, such as video and sound files. You can configure the MIME-type settings to handle any type of file. The Joomla Media Manager tool can be integrated into its Article Editor tool so you can grab images and other files.

Set up banners, graphical promotions, and add and edit campaigns, special URLS, impression numbers and more.

Joomla includes international support for many world languages and UTF-8 encoding. If you need your website in English and the administrator panel in another language, it's possible with multiple-languages support.

Joomla's built-in search helps your users find the right page or pages, based on keywords. The entire website, with all content can be indexed, and search reports on keywords are available to the site admin.

Easy-to-comprehend content organization and indexing. Create new content with a WYSIWYG editor. Use optional modules to show the most popular articles, latest news items, related articles, and more.

It's easy to syndicate your site content with Joomla. Give your users the ability to subscribe to your content with their favorite RSS reader. Integrate RSS feeds from other sources and aggregate them all into your site.

Joomla's menu manager enables you to structure your menu hierarchy independent of your content structure. Add rollovers, dropdown, fly-outs and other navigation systems easily. Generate breadcrumbs to help with the usability of your navigation.

Joomla has a more flexible template manager than Wordpress. You can use one template for the entire site or multiple templates as needed to create a more visually-diverse site design. Joomla provides flexible and powerful control over design, resulting in a well-branded and engaging site.

Joomla is true Open Source software, which means that thousands of developers all over the world contribute to the system and its growing library of available features and modules. There are tens of thousands of inexpensive and free system extensions available, which means it's a great choice for future growth.