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iOS Safari instructions for mobile web apps

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Dedicated and shared hosting programs from Japan.

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

The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

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

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.

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.

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.

When running in a browser on a mobile phone, "format-detection" meta tag determines whether or not telephone numbers in the HTML content will appear as hypertext links. The user can click a link with a telephone number to initiate a phone call to that phone number.

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

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