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

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.

Cascading grid layout library

jQuery plugin for infinite scrolling.

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

iOS Safari instructions for mobile web apps

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Indicates that the site provides an interface specifically for searching the document and its related resources.

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.

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

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