Core Joomla! Components
These are the main Core Joomla! Components.
Banners
The Banners component permits display of banners in your website.
You are able to manage banners by client and to track the number of times a banner image is viewed and clicked.
Banner Modules can display banners almost anywhere in your website.
Contacts
The Contacts component enables you to provide contact information, including contact forms, for your website visitors.
It will also enable you to create a complex directory that you may find useful for a wide range of purposes other than managing contacts.
Content
The Content component enables you to create and edit Articles.
Media
The Media component lets you upload and insert images into content throughout your site.
Menus
The Menus component lets you create the menus you see displayed on your site.
News Feeds
The News Feeds component enables you to present information from another website on your own website.
You an use menus to present a single feed, a list of news feeds in a category, or a list of all news feed categories.
Redirect
The Redirect component enables you to fix broken links that otherwise produce Page Not Found (404) errors.
You can use it to redirect broken links to specific pages in your website.
It will also help you manage migration related URL changes and so avoid adverse impact on your search engine ranking if you change the domain name.
It's use is a MUST if you care about search engine optimisation.
Search
Joomla! offers two search options: basic search and smart search.
The Smart Search Component enables the creation of search filters.
In this way you can provide your website visitors with a specific set of results in response to their search query.
Smart Search is disabled by default in the Joomla! CMS.