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I'm just curious to get a little background. I'm an engineer but I don't deal with any website projects at all, so I'm a bit baffled. What type of website software is used for larger media companies (that do not develop their own)? For example CNN, CBS, CNET... I'm curious more in quick changing news and content type sites where, I imagine, users have templates where they just enter content and submit and the website software must produce a layout. I highly doubt these highy trafficed, polished media sites use Joomla, Drupal, Plone. Just due to the nature of the complexity, it must be very expensive. My questions extend to this:
- What do sites like, ABC, ZDnet, SiriusXM radio, and above use?
- Is there a way I can discover, or find out by just browsing.. most do not put a "powered by" banner at the bottom.
- I understand that this is costly, high dollar design and maintenance.. but is it possible for such highly develop sites using free/open source software? Most forums I have visited will give examples of Joomla, Drupal or whatever... and they never appear that well polished (like these large companies). Again, not to beat a dead horse, but content that changes and is dynamic is really my curiosity.. like how Sirius XM will have show description changes frequently. Thanks for any feedback.
- What do sites like, ABC, ZDnet, SiriusXM radio, and above use?
- Is there a way I can discover, or find out by just browsing.. most do not put a "powered by" banner at the bottom.
- I understand that this is costly, high dollar design and maintenance.. but is it possible for such highly develop sites using free/open source software? Most forums I have visited will give examples of Joomla, Drupal or whatever... and they never appear that well polished (like these large companies). Again, not to beat a dead horse, but content that changes and is dynamic is really my curiosity.. like how Sirius XM will have show description changes frequently. Thanks for any feedback.