Server Information
Apache
Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (often abbreviated to RHEL) is a Linux distribution produced by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market, including mainframes.
Content Management Systems
Drupal
An engine suitable to setup or build a content driven or community driven website. Modular design allows flexibility in design.
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
DoubleClick.Net
DoubleClick enables agencies, marketers and publishers to work together successfully and profit from their digital marketing investments.
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
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 UI
jQuery UI provides abstractions for low-level interaction and animation, advanced effects and high-level, themeable widgets, built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library, that you can use to build highly interactive web applications.
jQuery Cycle
A slideshow plugin for JQuery that supports many different types of transition effects.
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.
Mapping
Google Maps
The Google Maps API embeds Google Maps into The website with JavaScript.
Widgets
FeedBurner
The website uses the FeedBurner widget to display how many readers of its RSS feeds they have.
Aggregation Functionality
RSS
A family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts.
FeedBurner
FeedBurner is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds.
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.
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
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.
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.