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As a beginner, I'm going to build a good-looking video streaming website, but want the easiest way to build. I'm looking for a user-friendly CMS to create the main structure of my site. Please have a look at: http://www.threehosts.com/ratings/comparison-software/wordpress-vs-joomla-vs-drupal.html. As you can see they have provided a collection of websites created with WP, Drupal and Joomla. How can I understand if these websites are really built with the mentioned software? And how can I know if they have used any template for their sites or they have only used the mentioned CMS? Because some of these websites look really great and professional and due to I'm on a tight budget I don't want to pay for any template or theme.

If you're comfortable with going through the page's source code (https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000746.htm), you can use the following telltale signs to determine the CMS currently in use:

1. Search for the "generator" meta tag, it contains exactly the information you need.

2. Search for CMS-specific directories, such as "wp-content" for WordPress or "templates" for Joomla.

3. Apart from checking the code, you can also try visiting specific URLs, e.g. try adding "/administrator/" to the homepage URL to see if it's Joomla or "/user/" to see if it's Drupal.

Please note, however, that any of those can be changed manually by the site admins, so there's no 100% precise method, to the best of my knowledge, unless you decide to simply ask the site admins :)

You can also install a Chrome extension such as the Wappalyzer which will tell you a page's underlying CMS automatically.

If you're on a budget, I strongly recommend using WordPress, as it has the steepest learning curve and offers a much wider template and plugin choice. You can determine which theme a particular website is using e.g. here: http://satoristudio.net/what-wordpress-theme/, the tool will give you a direct link to the (parent) theme's official web page - or let you know that the theme has been modified too far to be recognizable.


Answered 7 years ago

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