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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.

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.

Tells owners of The website how many people are visiting the site, where they are coming from and whats most interesting to them.

l10n.js is a JavaScript library that enables passive localization through native JavaScript methods, gracefully degrading if the library is not present.

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.

Fixes z-index issues in IE6.

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

The website contains payment options via the use of PayPal.

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.

Cforms is a plugin for WordPress, offering convenient deployment of multiple contact forms throughout your blog or even on the same page.

ThickBox is a webpage UI dialog widget written in JavaScript on top of the jQuery library. Its function is to show a single image, multiple images, inline content, iframed content, or content served through AJAX in a hybrid modal.

WP Super Cache is a page cache generation tool for WordPress.

Google has off-loaded static content (Javascript/Images/CSS) to a different domain name in an effort to reduce bandwidth usage and increase network performance for the end user.

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.

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

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.

Meta tag containing keywords related to the page.

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

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.

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