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Technologies in use by davidgerard.co.uk

WP Super Cache is a page cache generation tool for WordPress.

iOS Safari instructions for mobile web apps

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

Jetpack is a free WordPress plugin that allows you to focus on what you do best. Create and publish great content. We’ll take care of the rest.

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

WordPress Page Builder

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

All Twitter's social tools, including buttons and timeline widgets.

Website using Instagram integrations or links.

Website with links to Instagram profiles or pictures

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is object storage with a simple web service interface to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web.

Websites using Amazon technologies

Embedded videos from YouTube.

Websites with links to podcasts hosted on BuzzSprout

Podcast hosting services

Podbean is an easy and powerful way to start podcasting. It's asimple solution to create and share audio video podcast channels. The best place to discover and collect everyone's favorite podcasts.

Ubuntu Linux operating system

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

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

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

A pingback is one of four types of linkback methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. This enables authors to keep track of who is linking to, or referring to their articles.

Website using the € symbol on their website - meaning it may accept payment in Euros.

Website using the £ symbol on their website - meaning it may accept payment in this British currency.

Websites using https protocol.

The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

Wesites using favicon rel tag

Chrome for Android, since version 39 supports the "theme-color" meta tag to allow websites control the background color of the tab's UI header.

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".

By adding rel="home" to a hyperlink, a page indicates that the destination of that hyperlink is the homepage of the site in which the current page appears.

The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph, a open protocol supported by Facebook

The iconic font and CSS toolkit

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