Server Information
IIS
This website is running on a Microsoft IIS Server solution.
IIS 6
Internet-based service for servers using Microsoft Windows. It is the world's second most popular web server in terms of overall websites.
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
Shockwave Flash Embed
The website contains Adobe Flash content embeded without the use of JavaScript.
PHP
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
ASP.NET
ASP.NET is a web application framework marketed by Microsoft that programmers can use to build dynamic web sites, web applications and XML web services. It is part of Microsoft's .NET platform and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) technology.
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.
StatCounter
The website uses StatCounter a free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats.
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.
jQuery Cycle
A slideshow plugin for JQuery that supports many different types of transition effects.
cufón
sIFR replacement with simpler and easier to use functionality. Shows fonts in a nice format.
Facebook for Websites
Allows a user to make a website more sociable and connected with integrations from the hugely popular Facebook website.
Facebook SDK
JavaScript SDK enables you to access all of the features of the Graph API via JavaScript, and it provides a rich set of client-side functionality for authentication and sharing. It differs from Facebook Connect.
jQuery Form
jQuery Form Plugin allows you to easily and unobtrusively upgrade HTML forms to use AJAX.
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.
Facebook Like
Allows users to Like items they find on the web, similar to how you Like items within Facebook.
Twitter Widget
Adds twitter to The website, this includes the user of a twitter badge, blogger javascript or anything from widgets.twimg.com.
Facebook Like Button
The code to implement a Facebook Like Button on the page.
Content Delivery Network
Twitter CDN
This page contains content sourced from the Twitter CDN, either by the use of Widgets or linking to image content on twimg.com currently hosted by Akamai and Amazon.
Mapping
Google Maps
The Google Maps API embeds Google Maps into The website with JavaScript.
Aggregation Functionality
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.
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.
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
Document Information
XHTML Strict
The website claims XHTML strict. XHTML Strict is the same as HTML 4.01 Strict but follows XML guidelines. See the link for more information.
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.
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.
Open Graph Protocol
The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph, a open protocol supported by Facebook
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.
Conditional Comments
The website uses conditional comments that are supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer. They allow web developers to show or hide HTML code based on the version of the viewer's browser.
HTML 5 Specific Tags
This page contains tags that are specific to an HTML 5 implementation.
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.