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FancyBox is a tool for displaying images, html content and multi-media in a Mac-style "lightbox" that floats overtop of web page.

Websites using Google technologies

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

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

Version 7 of Drupal.

Drupal is a free software package that allows you to easily organize, manage and publish your content, with an endless variety of customization

A jQuery slider toolkit.

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

Modernizr is a JavaScript library that detects HTML5 and CSS3 features in the user’s browser and allows you to target specific browser functionality in your stylesheet.

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

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

Previously Google Apps for Business. G Suite is a cloud-based productivity suite that helps you and your team connect and get work done from anywhere on any device. It's simple to setup, use and manage, allowing you to work smarter and focus on what really matters.

The Apache HTTP Server is an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS/X and Netware. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services observing the current HTTP standards. Apache has been the most popular web server ...

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.

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.

websites using the $ symbol on their website - meaning it may accept payment in this currency used in Israel.

Websites using https protocol.

The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

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.

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

Sites who has this tag are verfied by google to use WebMaster tools

The http-equiv attribute provides an HTTP header for the information/value of the content attribute. The http-equiv attribute can be used to simulate an HTTP response header.

Meta Keywords are a specific type of meta tag that appear in the HTML code of a Web page and help tell search engines what the topic of the page is.

Meta descriptions are HTML attributes that provide concise explanations of the contents of web pages. Meta descriptions are commonly used on search engine result pages (SERPs) to display preview snippets for a given page.

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

Wesites using favicon rel tag

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