TonyMc - 10:43 pm on Mar 12, 2006 (gmt 0)

Open Source software is essentially free software. Lots of people contribute to the creation of software for the sole purpose of giving it away for people to use. This is different than paid software that you purchase off the shelf somewhere.

Unix is the operating system or platform that your web server software would run on. Unix servers running an Apache web server are probably your best bet. You can google Unix and Apache and find lots of information on them. An alternative would be a Windows IIS server.

Joomla is open source content management software. Check out Joomla.org for more information about that. I'm not familiar with the software that you mentioned so I can't really answer your questions there.

...and you could use Word to write your content and paste it in but it's a little messy. I'd suggest writing it in a very simple text editor like Notepad then formatting it in whatever software you intend to use.

Hope that helps.

--Tony