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A simple library that provides standard Unicode emoji support across all platforms.

Anti-bot CAPTCHA widget that helps digitize books by providing snippets of books for people to enter the text for. Owned by Google.

Sucuri SiteCheck website security monitor is used to monitor websites for malware, blacklist status and other security issues and Sucuri CloudProxy Firewall safeguards sites and those who visit them from attacks of all kinds.

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Filter & sort magical layouts

Sleek, intuitive, and powerful mobile first front-end framework for faster and easier web development.

Cascading grid layout library

jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library.

Lightbox is small javascript library used to overlay images on top of the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.

Facebook Connect allow users to connect their Facebook identity, friends and, privacy to any website. Facebook Connect is Facebook's first attempt to allow access to Facebook user data outside of Facebook itself. The company is describing it as giving third party applications access to much of the same data as Facebook applicat...

Google APIs are application programming interfaces developed by Google which allow communication with Google Services and their integration to other services.

This site uses the viewport meta tag which means the content may be optimized for mobile content.

A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.

Contact form builder and lead data management plugin for WordPress.

CloudFlare is a global CDN and DNS provider that can speed up and protect any site online.

nginx [engine x] is a HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev.

Windows Live Writer Tagging Support Schema

Really Simple Discovery is a way to help client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.

A family of standard web feed formats used to publish frequently updated information like blog entries, news headlines, audio and video.

Content Security Policy is best used as defense-in-depth, to reduce the harm caused by content injection attacks.

Websites using https protocol.

The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

This page contains a meta robots tag which tells search engines and robots to index or not index the page.

A canonical link element is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues by specifying the "canonical", or "preferred".

Google's hosted library for web fonts. Allows websites to choose and use fonts from a free, wide variety of fonts.

UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.