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
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.
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.
GetClicky
web 2.0 analytics for The website also used by FreeWebs.
JavaScript Libraries
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
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.
Facebook for Websites
Allows a user to make a website more sociable and connected with integrations from the hugely popular Facebook website.
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.
Thickbox
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.
Facebook Sharer
Share this page on Facebook.
WP Super Cache
WP Super Cache is a page cache generation tool for WordPress.
Content Delivery Network
Akamai
Akamai provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery.
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.
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 Transitional
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.
Friends Network
XHTML Friends Network is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks.
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.
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.