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If you plan to build website using Joomla CMS, then here is a Top 10 Must Have Joomla Extensions for your Joomla Website. All of this extension will be needed a lot for you to improve, maintain and publish your website.

1. Community Builder suite (CB) extends the Joomla! user management system. Key features: extra fields in profile, enhanced registration workflows, user lists, connection paths between users, admin defined tabs and user profiles, image upload, front-end workflow management, integration with other components, like PMS, Newsletter, Forum, Galleries. Over 165 extensions for CB are listed here. New release 1.2 is compatible with all Joomla! 1.5 native, Joomla! 1.0.x native and Mambo 4.5.2-4.6.5. New CB version 1.2 Stable brings multi-criteria user searches, full field controls of core fields, ajax email and username checkers, new lost username/password form, image and integer fields, custom validations and many more features and fixes. CB 1.2 Stable has been released after a long RC cycle. CB 1.2 Stable is open-source and free. Please see announcement on our homepage.
   Notes: Using CB will make you able to enhance your membership profiling.
   
   
   
2. eXtplorer is a web-based File Management Component for all your needs. It has a desktop-application-like interface with drag&drop, grid and a directory tree and makes heavy use of the ExtJS Javascript Library.You can use it to access and modify the files and directories on your server via FTP or direct file access. eXtplorer runs natively under Joomla! 1.5.x, 1.0.x and can also be used as a standalone app. Other suggested file management extension, then you can use JoomlaXplorer. Notes: Using eXtplorer will help you a lot to maintain and doing file management for your website (copy, rename, move, zip, extract, etc)
   
   
3. Jom Comment is the comment system chosen by the pro's! A powerful, Ajax-based comment system for your Joomla! website. Jom Comment ensures comments appear slick and smooth with Ajax while saving server bandwidth. Protect your website from unwanted SPAM with powerful Captcha image challenge. Templatize your whole comment module to look and feel like the rest of your website. Jom Comment is easy-to-use and install, with superb developer support. If you've got AkoComment or ComboMax data, just import them easily to Jom Comment.
   Notes: Using Jom Comment will make your website more attractive and interactive so every member will be able to contribute building and publishing your website.
   
   
   
4. Joomap is a sitemap component for Joomla that shows the normal Menu Structure, Content Categories, Sections and Virtuemart Categories in a hierarchical tree or a Google Sitemaps list. A plugin system and translation support make it easy to expand the range of supported content and localization.
   Notes: This extension will help your website to be more easily dig and indexed by Search Engine so it will be perfectly publish on the net. Notes: In order to make this extension works better you will need some other plugin to support others joomla components such as jdownload, fireboard, and others plugin. You can download this plugin on the developer website.
   
   
5. JoomlaStats is a USER AWARE statistics component for Joomla. Features: OS, browser, bots/spiders, referrers, last visitors, last bots/spiders, page hits, visitors by country, average visitors/bots, search engines, and keywords. Many modules are available to display statistics to the front end (more to come). From version 2.1.4 there's no need to tamper with your template. Just download a module to activate JoomlaStats. Visit the project home page for more info!
   Notes: Using JoomlaStats will help you to monitor how popular your website is by identifying the visitors details.
   
   
   
6. Joomla Content Editor (JCE) is An advanced, configurable WYSIWYG editor for Joomla! based on Moxiecode's TinyMCE.
   Includes advanced Image/Media, File and Link handling, plugin support, and an Administration interface for editor configuration.
   
   
7. sh404SEF rewrites Joomla URL to a more user-friendly format (SEF URL or URL rewriting). It is also a security component and manages title and meta tags : automatic tags, or manual for every page. It works with or without .htaccess file. Fully Joomfish compatible. Caching system for high speed and very small DB queries overhead. Support many components natively but uses also sef_ext from OpenSEF/SEF Advanced. VirtueMart, Fireboard, Community Builder, mosetsTree, HotProperty, Sobi2, Docman, myBlog, iJoomla Magazine,News Portal, Remository and more supported natively. SSL switch, automatic 301 redirection from non-sef to sef and from Joomla SEF to sh404SEF, insert Google news style numerical ID,.. Many backend parameters to control URL construction behavior.
   Notes : Just like joomap, this extension will also need anotehr plugin to make it works perfectly with other extensions.
   
   
8. JEvents is a project brings the well known and loved Events Calendar to Joomla. JEvents consists of a Joomfish compatible Joomla component and a number of modules and mambots.
   
   
9. uddeIM allows users of your community to send Private Messages to each other (note that uddeIM is not a webmail component nor an email client). uddeIM wants to be simple and easy-to-use but it offers all the features you need in a Private Messaging System (PMS). uddeIM is available in 28 languages. It integrates seamless with Community Builder, Joomlaboard, Fireboard, and Agora. uddeIM runs on Joomla 1.0, J!1.5 native and J!1.5 legacy.
   
   
10. Kunena, translated from Swahili meaning "to speak", arose out of a fork of the former Fireboard forum with a new team and some of the previous developers, including several Joomla core developers. Many fixes and new features which had been planned for past releases but never implemented have been added to the initial release. Kunena 1.0.x is fully compatible with all prior versions of Fireboard and upgrades are automatic. Migrating from Fireboard to Kunena couldn't be easier. Simply uninstall Fireboard, update any menu links, and you're ready to go. A Joomla 1.5.x native version of Kunena is in the works and and we are actively working on new features and encourage suggestions in our forum. Give Kunena a try!
11. JoomlaPack is an open-source backup component for the Joomla! CMS, quite a bit different than its competition. Its mission is simple: create a site backup that can be restored on any Joomla!-capable server. It creates a full backup of your site in a single ZIP archive. The archive contains all the files, a database snapshot and an installer derived from the standard Joomla! installer. The backup and restore process is AJAX powered to avoid server timeouts, even with huge sites. Alternatively, you can make a backup of only your database. If you want a reliable, easy to use, open source backup solution for your Joomla! site, try it out.
    Notes : This is extension must always be installed to your Joomla Website, because it will help you a lot to backup your website and move your website in the future.
    
    
12. jDownloads is a extensive Download Manager for Joomla! with special functions for Joomla! 1.0 and 1.5 Legacy mode. ncluded Languages: english, german, dutch, france, turkish, italian, brasilian.portuguese, serbian, norwegian.
    Notes: This extension will be very helpful if you plan to share files on your websites.
    
    
13. Joom!Fish is the solution for your multilingual website if control over the translations matters for you. The extension is totally free of charge available and allows translation of any content within your Joomla system. With an easy extension it is also possible to translate any 3rd party extension available for your favored CMS.
    
    
14. Virtuemart is a complete e-Commerce shopping cart solution for Joomla! - used by thousands of store owners. It can be run in Store- and Catalog-Mode.With its powerful Administration Tool you can handle an unlimited Number of Categories, Products, Orders, Discounts, Shopper Groups and Customers.
    
    
    
    
    
15. Mod_HTML allows you to Add Any HTML or JavaScript code to your Mambo or Joomla Website CMS via a module.
    Why use mod_html?
    1) mod_html allows you to add any html or javascript to your modules withought having to change any settings in your Mambo, Joomla CMS.
    2) You can copy the module in the admin panel, for quick clones of an advertisement or banner ad
    3) mod_html allows you to add google adsense code directly to your site, just copy and paste from your google adsense account page.
    Notes: Using this module, will be able to monetize your website using Ads Networks program (Google Adsense, Bidvertiser, AdBrite, etc), because in the end by building a website, we hope that we can make money from our website.
    
    
16. Member Care System is a component enables administrators to follow site members and give them the sense of being a family, by inviting them to visit the site if they don't login for long time, or asking them whether they face problems when logging to your site, etc... With Member Care System you can: 1. You can write your custom email subject and message in the configuration form. 2. You can provide a form, the same as the 'Lost Your Password?' form, for the inactive users to get their activation emails, whenever they want without any action from you. (see README.txt) 3. You can list the members didn't login to your site for some x days, where x ranges from 1 to y, and y is set in the configuration. And Order the list by absence days, never logged in members, username, name, register date and last visit date. and other features, read more on www.joomlareem.com Changes to ver 1.0.2: Newly Added Features: - Delete inactive users from MCS without the need to use joomla users manager. - All back end strings are included in the language files to be translated into any language. - Email subjects are now are customised the same as messages.

With all above extensions, then you will see that it will be very easy to manage, to improve, to maintain and to publish your website over the net to make it more attractive and famous to others.