Let's have a look at some great real-world examples of sites built using Joomla. If you're anything like me, seeing inspirational examples is what makes you want to get started right away creating something equally cool (or preferably something even better). In this section, you'll see a few examples from the Web and from the Joomla site showcase (http://community.joomla.org/showcase). They are very diverse sites from very different organizations, each with their own goals and target groups. What they have in common is that they deploy Joomla in a way that you could too. They adapt CMS to their specific needs, making it perfectly suited for the content they present and the impression they want to make.

Here's an example from the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, (http://www.emro.who.int). The home page uses various ways to present highlights from the site's impressive amount of content.

The following example is the the Working Wonders website, a charity foundation (www.workingwonders.com.au):

Joomla can handle complex sites with thousands of pages. Here's an illustration of a content-rich site with a made-to-measure design: the Guggenheim Museum website (www.guggenheim.org).

This example demonstrates that Joomla sites don't have to look anything like a typical CMS-powered site. You can use quite a different design and still take advantage of the default functionality of Joomla to power the site. This site presents a Dutch events company (www.puurspecialevents.nl).

One final example: the personal portfolio site of an Argentinian artist Angie Villé (www.angieville.com.ar).

If you're looking for some more inspiration, browse the official Joomla showcase at http://community.joomla.org/showcase or go to www.bestofjoomla.com and have a look around in the Best of Sites section.