There's excitement in the air at LOFT ... welcome to the all new LOFTportal! Contructed right here at LOFT the new webportal is powered by 'Joomla!' Content Management Systems (CMS). Joomla! is a powerful PHP open source framework designed for quick publishing of all sorts of highly interactive multi-language content and media.

What is a web portal? Simply, a webportal acts as a communication hub, bringing together all the needed content and material to everyone's fingertips, where they need it; when they need it.
Joomla! provides an easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) that simplifies the management and publishing of large volumes of LOFT content including static HTML pages, office documents and PDFs, forms, and rich media. Joomla! is used by organizations of all sizes for both public websites and intranets, and is supported by a community of thousands of coders and millions of end-users. Plus, with a fully documented library of developer resources, Joomla! allows the customization of nearly every aspect of the new LOFT webportal including presentation, layout, administration, and the rapid integration with many third-party server applications.

Joomla! has a rich heritage and has been crowned the CMS King many times over. Now with the latest developments and even more capabilities under the hood, Joomla! 1.5 is shifting gears and providing real developer power while making the user experience all the more friendly. A new framework, ground-up re-factoring, and LOFT's own highly-active media team brings the excitement of 'the next generation CMS' to LOFT's fingertips. Whether you are a program manager, salesman, or a client, the new LOFTportal can bring the content you need to the next level. Because the new Joomla! API has such so mush incredible power and flexibility, we are free to take nearly any direction our creative mind takes us and Joomla! can help us get there much more easily and with more power than ever before.