Why Joomla?
Having been the patron of the Italian Joomla community for years and one of the most used hosting services for Joomla in the country, the company had great expertise on Joomla. Furthermore, Joomla was already in use for other public and internal websites in the company, since it powered Host Academy, an e-learning portal; several company landing pages used by the marketing team; and an intranet portal used by customer service to handle work shifts, vacation plans, and requests.
Besides the internal expertise, Joomla offered several advantages that influenced the decision:
- A brand-new stable version approaching (Joomla 4)
- A lightweight, powerful, and fast core
- Built-in multilanguage support
- A modular structure
Joomla 4, which was still in the Beta phase at the time the decision was made, looked future proof in the eyes of the company, allowing the use of cutting-edge technology, being based on a modern graphic framework such as Bootstrap 5,...