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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Aggregation Functionality
RSS
A family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts.
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.
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 Strict
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
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
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.
Canonical Content Tag
Public specification of a preferred URL for a page allows search engines to understand the original location for content.
Meta Description
The description attribute provides a concise explanation of the page content.
Meta Keywords
Meta tag containing keywords related to the page.
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.