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Technologies
Last profiled 11th May. Profile will be refreshed on 8th June.Operating Systems and Servers
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"Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996."
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"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."
Document Standards
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"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."
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"Allows webmasters to disable the image toolbar that appears when hovering over images in Internet Explorer 6."
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"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 "
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"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."
Document Encoding
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"UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages."
JavaScript Libraries and Functions
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"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."
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"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."
Syndication Techniques
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"A family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts."
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"Atom Syndication Format is an XML language used for web feeds very similar to RSS."
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"Really Simple Discovery is a way to help client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software."
Analytics and Tracking
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"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. "
Frameworks
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"PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML."
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