Server Information
Apache
Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996.
Content Management Systems
WordPress
WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.
Frameworks
PHP
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
Advertising
Google Adsense
A contextual advertising solution for delivering Google AdWords ads that are relevant to site content pages.
Amazon Associates
Launched in 1996, Associates is Amazon.com's affiliate marketing program. By linking to Amazon products and services you can add content for the sites visitors and receive up to 10% in referral fees.
Analytics and Tracking
Google Analytics
Google Analytics offers a host of compelling features and benefits for everyone from senior executives and advertising and marketing professionals to site owners and content developers.
JavaScript Libraries
Passive Localization
l10n.js is a JavaScript library that enables passive localization through native JavaScript methods, gracefully degrading if the library is not present.
jQuery
JQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.
Widgets
Wordpress Plugins
Plugins are tools to extend the functionality of WordPress. The website uses various plugins from WordPress to provide additional functionality. Some of them may be listed here.
ShareThis
One button sharing - quick sharing to MySpace, Email and more!
Content Delivery Network
AJAX Libraries API
The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular, open source JavaScript libraries.
Aggregation Functionality
Really Simple Discovery
Really Simple Discovery is a way to help client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.
Live Writer Support
Windows Live Writer Tagging Support Schema
RSS
A family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts.
Atom
Atom Syndication Format is an XML language used for web feeds very similar to RSS.
Document Information
XHTML Transitional
The website claims XHTML Transitional status. XHTML 1.0 Transitional is the same as HTML 4.01 Transitional, but follows XML syntax rules. It supports everything found in XHTML 1.0 Strict, but also permits the use of a number of elements and attributes that are judged presentational, in order to ease the transition from HTML 3.2 and earlier. These include center, u, strike, and applet.
Meta Description
The description attribute provides a concise explanation of the page content.
Meta Keywords
Meta tag containing keywords related to the page.
Cascading Style Sheets
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML
Canonical Content Tag
Public specification of a preferred URL for a page allows search engines to understand the original location for content.
Javascript
JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development. Its proper name is ECMAScript, though "JavaScript" is much more commonly used. The website uses JavaScript.
Encoding
UTF-8
UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.