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.
Apache
Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996.
CentOS
CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible.
Content Management Systems
MediaWiki
MediaWiki is a free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis, including The website.
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
Google Adsense
A contextual advertising solution for delivering Google AdWords ads that are relevant to site content pages.
ValueClick Inc.
Scalable solutions for advertisers to cost-effectively acquire customers and for publishers to maximize their revenue.
Analytics and Tracking
comScore
Market research company that studies internet trends and behavior.
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.
Widgets
WebsiteChat
Live Support Software allowing website visitors to chat with a company support team and have their questions answered instantly.
Aggregation Functionality
RSS
A family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts.
Atom
Atom Syndication Format is an XML language used for web feeds very similar to RSS.
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.
Content Style Type
W3C Recommended definition of the type of stylesheets used in a document.
Meta Keywords
Meta tag containing keywords related to the page.
OpenSearch
The OpenSearch description document format can be used to describe a search engine so that it can be used by search client applications.
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.
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.
Image Tool Bar
Allows webmasters to disable the image toolbar that appears when hovering over images in Internet Explorer 6.
Canonical Content Tag
Public specification of a preferred URL for a page allows search engines to understand the original location for content.
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.