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.
http://builtwith.com as John mentioned earlier is your first step, and as others mentioned if you are just beginning go with WordPress, about a third of all new sites now are on WordPress so you have the support, security and flexibility that goes with that.
If you're looking at a WordPress site you like the features of, you can dig a little deeper with http://www.wpthemedetector.com/ to see the theme they use and often the plugins they use. In my experience it only recognizes about 30% of the plugins out there, but often you'll get some great insights into how a site has been put together, and Viktor's tips above will help you find even more.
Answered 10 years ago
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