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Technologies
Last profiled 23rd April. Profile will be refreshed on 21st May.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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"Ubuntu is a free, Debian derived Linux-based operating system, available with both community and professional support."
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"Varnish is a web accelerator / reverse proxy caching server."
Document Standards
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"The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites."
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"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."
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"The description attribute provides a concise explanation of the page content."
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"Meta tag containing keywords related to the page."
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"Allows a website to define how a page is rendered in Internet Explorer 8, allowing a website to decide to use IE7 style rendering over IE8 rendering."
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"Frames Google Chrome window into Internet Explorer for HTML 5 compatibility."
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"This page contains an icon for iPhone, iPad and iTouch devices."
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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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"The Google Font API helps you add web fonts to any web page."
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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."
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"This page may be using a 960 grid layout system from 960.gs."
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."
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"Support tabs interfaces using the JQuery library"
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"Modernizr allows you to target specific browser functionality in your stylesheet."
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"A slideshow plugin for JQuery that supports many different types of transition effects. "
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"Superfish is an enhanced Suckerfish-style menu jQuery plugin that takes an existing pure CSS drop-down menus and adds much-sought-after enhancements."
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"hoverIntent is a plug-in that attempts to determine the user's intent. It works like (and was derived from) jQuery's built-in hover. However, instead of immediately calling the onMouseOver function, it waits until the user's mouse slows down enough before making the call."
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"A light-weight, customizable lightbox plugin for jQuery."
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"A library to support CSS1 background-repeat and background-position in old browsers."
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. "
Content Management System
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"ExpressionEngine is a flexible, feature-rich content management system that empowers thousands of individuals, organizations, and companies around the world to easily manage their website."
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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