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.
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.
Auth Passthrough
Frontpage security module for Apache.
Limiter Modules
Log Byte and Bandwidth Limiter modules.
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.
Python
Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days.
Frontpage Extensions
A web site administration tool from Microsoft for the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. It was part of Microsoft Office application suite from 1997 to 2003.
JavaScript Libraries
Facebook for Websites
Allows a user to make a website more sociable and connected with integrations from the hugely popular Facebook website.
HTML 5 Shiv
HTML5 IE enabling script shim.
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 Cycle
A slideshow plugin for JQuery that supports many different types of transition effects.
Shadowbox
Shadowbox is an online media viewer application that supports all of the web's most popular media publishing formats.
jQuery Easing
A jQuery extension that provides functionality to "ease" things onto or off of the screen.
jQuery UI
jQuery UI provides abstractions for low-level interaction and animation, advanced effects and high-level, themeable widgets, built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library, that you can use to build highly interactive web applications.
Facebook SDK
JavaScript SDK enables you to access all of the features of the Graph API via JavaScript, and it provides a rich set of client-side functionality for authentication and sharing. It differs from Facebook Connect.
Twitter Platform
The page embeds the Twitter platform in one method or another.
jQuery Validate
JQuery Form Validation Plugin.
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.
Facebook Like
Allows users to Like items they find on the web, similar to how you Like items within Facebook.
Twitter Tweet Button
Official Tweet Button for sharing articles on websites and counting how many times a URL has been shared.
Google Plus One
Google's answer to Facebook Like.
Mapping
Google Maps
The Google Maps API embeds Google Maps into The website with JavaScript.
Content Delivery Network
AJAX Libraries API
The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular, open source JavaScript libraries.
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
HTML5 DocType
The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.
Open Graph Protocol
The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph, a open protocol supported by Facebook
Meta Keywords
Meta tag containing keywords related to the page.
Apple Mobile Web Clips Icon
This page contains an icon for iPhone, iPad and iTouch devices.
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.
Canonical Content Tag
Public specification of a preferred URL for a page allows search engines to understand the original location for content.
Google Font API
The Google Font API helps you add web fonts to any web 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.
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.