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This page contains links that give the impression that some of the site contents are stored on a content delivery network.

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.

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.

MooTools is a compact, modular, Object-Oriented JavaScript framework designed for the intermediate to advanced JavaScript developer. It allows you to write powerful, flexible and cross-browser code with its elegant, well documented and coherent API.

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

NetDNA's Dynamic Site Acceleration optimizes content delivery and web applications, providing end users with a satisfying experience without requiring the immense infrastructure costs that were previously the only solution

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.

The code to implement a Facebook Like Button on the page.

The fastest and most complete WordPress performance optimization plugin.

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 strict. XHTML Strict is the same as HTML 4.01 Strict but follows XML guidelines. See the link for more information.

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.

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.

The map tag is used to define a client-side image-map. An image-map is an image with clickable areas.

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