Server Information
Content Delivery Network
This page contains links that give the impression that some of the site contents are stored on a content delivery network.
nginx
nginx [engine x] is a HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev.
Varnish
Varnish is a web accelerator / reverse proxy caching server.
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.
Advertising
BlogHer Advertising Network
BlogHerAds leverages the media, marketing and publishing experience of its three co-founders and extraordinary members -- women who read and write blogs.
Intellitxt
Video advertising from vibrant media
Vibrant Advertising
In text and video advertising
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.
whos.amung.us
Provides information on how many users are reading The website in real time.
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.
Twitter Platform
The page embeds the Twitter platform in one method or another.
jQuery Form
jQuery Form Plugin allows you to easily and unobtrusively upgrade HTML forms to use AJAX.
Content Delivery Network
CloudFlare
Automatically optimizes the delivery of your web pages so your visitors get the fastest page load times and best performance.
Widgets
Intense Debate
Intense Debate is a sophisticated external comment system for WordPress blogs.
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.
Google Plus One
Google's answer to Facebook Like.
Twitter Tweet Button
Official Tweet Button for sharing articles on websites and counting how many times a URL has been shared.
Meebo
Meebo me widget is used on this page to share links.
Aggregation Functionality
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
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.
FeedBurner
FeedBurner is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds.
Google FeedProxy
RSS Aggregation stats from Google, previously Feedburner.
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
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.
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.
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.