Server Information
nginx
nginx [engine x] is a HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev.
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 Ad Partner Services
Google Adsense Partner Program is being used on this site.
Google Adsense
A contextual advertising solution for delivering Google AdWords ads that are relevant to site content pages.
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.
Effective Measure
Effective Measure provides cutting edge digital Audience Measurement, website rankings, internet demographics and market intelligence for website publishers, media agencies and digital marketers.
JavaScript Libraries
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.
Passive Localization
l10n.js is a JavaScript library that enables passive localization through native JavaScript methods, gracefully degrading if the library is not present.
SWFObject
SWFObject is a small Javascript file used for embedding Adobe Flash content. The script can detect the Flash plug-in in all major web browsers (on Mac and PC) and is designed to make embedding Flash movies as easy as possible.
Hover Intent
hoverIntent is a plug-in that attempts to determine the user's intent. It works like (and was derived from) jQuery's built-in hover. However, instead of immediately calling the onMouseOver function, it waits until the user's mouse slows down enough before making the call.
SuperFish
Superfish is an enhanced Suckerfish-style menu jQuery plugin that takes an existing pure CSS drop-down menus and adds much-sought-after enhancements.
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.
WP Super Cache
WP Super Cache is a page cache generation tool for WordPress.
Aggregation Functionality
Pingback Support
A Pingback is one of three types of Linkbacks, methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.
RSS
A family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts.
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.
Friends Network
XHTML Friends Network is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks.
Meta Description
The description attribute provides a concise explanation of the page content.
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
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.