PHYSICS.BROWN.EDU

Technology Profile

Server Information

Apache

Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996.

Unix

A *nix based operating system (undisclosed).

mod_ssl

This module provides strong cryptography for the Apache 1.3 webserver via the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols

OpenSSL

The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library.

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.

Perl

Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including system administration, web development, network programming, GUI development, and more.

Advertising

Google Adsense for Search

Adding the Google search box to your website puts our search engine at your visitors' fingertips. And combining search with AdSense puts Google's base of advertisers to work for your bottom line.

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.

HTML 5 Shiv

HTML5 IE enabling script shim.

jQuery Cycle

A slideshow plugin for JQuery that supports many different types of transition effects.

Audio/Video Media

JW Player

The JW Player has evolved through the history of online video since the time Jeroen wrote the first version in 2005. The experience we have developed over those years are built into the JW Player.

Widgets

Lightbox

Lightbox JS is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.

AddThis

Widgets that allows visitors to save and promote the site.

Document Information

HTML5 DocType

The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

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

sIFR

sIFR replaces short passages of plain browser text with text rendered in your typeface of choice, regardless of whether or not your users have that font installed on their systems. It accomplishes this by using a combination of javascript, CSS, and Flash.

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.

HTML 5 Specific Tags

This page contains tags that are specific to an HTML 5 implementation.

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.

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