Today I’ve updated my customers’ requests’ list with a particular one from an hair stylist products’ reseller.
The mail body:
home page restyling
and nothing else matters.
I’m not kiddind: not an “Hello guys” nor a thank for the patience we paied to read the mail ( the 19 letters that compose the whole mail! ).
So, no probs!
I asked, in the reply, if they need a complete restyling of the site and …{other boring stuff}… …but the big question was: how was their site built?
Current site’s layout sucks at all so, I’ve thought, it has been built with frontpage or simple HTML+CSS old way ( like this blog’s layout, but more ridicolous ).
No: after a while I’ve decided to know if they were using a CMS and it came out they use Joomla!.
How did I found it out? Let’s take a look to the ways you can recognize a Joomla!-based site.
URLs
Dynamic URLs, in Joomla!, are something like:
index.php?option=com_content...index.php?option=com_virtuemart...
but this site used static URLs.
Next!
Generator metatag
The generator metatag defines Joomla! 1.5 as the software that builds the site; unfortunately, it missed here.
Next!
HTML source
In HTML source of the webpages of the site you can find lots of signs of the usage of Joomla!:
- template’s path (
/templates/rhuk_milkyway/css/template.css) - extensions
and many others.
Ridicolous, this site used a source encryption tool!
Next!
Standard URLs
I’ve tried to type a standard URL like index.php?option=com_user but I got a forbidden error: what a stupid webmaster built this site, trying to hide that he used Joomla!
Next!
/administrator
The backend of the site was protected by a php script.
This appeared to me like a confirmation of the usage of Joomla! because the webmaster could have used any URL he wanted to reach the backend of the site; although I cannot directly get to the backend of the CMS, the fact that the /administrator path was the backend of the site made me realize that it was a Joomla!-based site, but I needed a new confirmation.
Next!
Template blocks
So I’ve reached:
index.php?tp=0- index.php?tp=1
and it suddenly appeared the typical Joomla!’s template blocks view.
Next one, sheriff!