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.
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.
Google JS Api
Google Mashup Editor (GME) includes a JavaScript API that gives you direct access to the document object model (DOM) via JavaScript. This API lets you use JavaScript to perform operations that duplicate and go beyond the features available in the GME tags. The API is useful when you want to access an object in the application from a JavaScript expression. You can also use the API to perform CRUD operations (create, read, update, delete) on entries in a data feed.
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.
Aggregation Functionality
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.
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.
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.
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.