Sometimes you want  the back end functionality that Joomla provides, but don't want the site to be recognized as a Joomla site.

I was recently looking at a client's site that uses Joomla in an interesting way.

The Joomla template displays just the main body content

( <jdoc:include type="component" /> ).

This means that each Article is the complete page design.

Modules could be inserted in Articles using {loadposition positionName) or some more module positions could be added to the template.

Linking to other pages requires creating links manually. Follow this format:

index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19

id= is the Article id.

(this is a link to the site I was looking at which over time may have changed)

http://decormaria.com