Finding Out If a Website Is a Joomla Website

OK. This is a new blog.

I'm just getting started learning
Joomla.

Lesson number one? How can you
tell if a website was created
using Joomla.

The answer seems fairly strightforward.
Just look at the Home page and see if
Joomla is the generator.

Here are the steps:

1. Right click on the Home page
2. Choose View Source Code
3. Do a search on the source code
4. Search for the word generator

That's the broad outline of what you need to
do to find out whether or not the website was
created using Joomla.

Here are a few wrinkles.

First, when you right click, be sure to right
click on real text, not image text. The difference?
Real text can be highlighted with your cursor and
can be copied and pasted.

Image text will not copy and paste, ever!

Another wrinkle is that I do not know Joomla well
enough to know whether or not you are always provided
with the name of the generator.

If you are, you may see something like this:

<meta name="generator" content="Joomla! 1.5 - 
          Open Source Content Management" />

Hope this helps!

It helps to know that a site was created with
Joomla.

Since Joomla is a Content Management System, I
assume you do not want to monkey with the source
code in this case.

Instead, it is better to work with the content
management system itself.

Ed Abbott