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Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996.

WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.

A contextual advertising solution for delivering Google AdWords ads that are relevant to site content pages.

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 Form Plugin allows you to easily and unobtrusively upgrade HTML forms to use AJAX.

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.

Atom Syndication Format is an XML language used for web feeds very similar to RSS.

A Pingback is one of three types of Linkbacks, methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.

A family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts.

Really Simple Discovery is a way to help client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.

Windows Live Writer Tagging Support Schema

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.

XHTML Friends Network is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks.

This page contains a meta robots tag which tells search engines and robots to index or not index the page.

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 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.

Public specification of a preferred URL for a page allows search engines to understand the original location for content.

The description attribute provides a concise explanation of the page content.

Meta tag containing keywords related to the page.

A persistent uniform resource locator (PURL) is a URL which describes an intermediate location which, when retrieved, results in redirection to the current location of the final resource. The site contains schema information identifying the use of PURL.

UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.