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.
Analytics and Tracking
WordPress Stats
Tells owners of The website how many people are visiting the site, where they are coming from and whats most interesting to them.
JavaScript Libraries
HTML 5 Shiv
HTML5 IE enabling script shim.
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.
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.
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.
Prototype
Prototype is a javascript framework which aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.
script.aculo.us
script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications fly.
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.
jQuery Cycle
A slideshow plugin for JQuery that supports many different types of transition effects.
jQuery Metadata
A plugin capable of extracting metadata from classes, random attributes, child elements and HTML5 data-* attributes.
jQuery Mousewheel
Adds mouse wheel support to the web site.
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.
ShareThis
One button sharing - quick sharing to MySpace, Email and more!
Twitter Widget
Adds twitter to The website, this includes the user of a twitter badge, blogger javascript or anything from widgets.twimg.com.
Gravatar Profiles
Creates Gravatar Profiles on the site.
W3 Total Cache
The fastest and most complete WordPress performance optimization plugin.
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.
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.
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.
Atom
Atom Syndication Format is an XML language used for web feeds very similar to RSS.
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
HTML5 DocType
The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.
Friends Network
XHTML Friends Network is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks.
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.
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
Meta Description
The description attribute provides a concise explanation of the page content.
Meta Keywords
Meta tag containing keywords related to the page.
Canonical Content Tag
Public specification of a preferred URL for a page allows search engines to understand the original location for content.
HTML 5 Specific Tags
This page contains tags that are specific to an HTML 5 implementation.
960.gs
This page may be using a 960 grid layout system from 960.gs.
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.