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Cascading grid layout library

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

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

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

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

Varnish is an HTTP accelerator designed for content-heavy dynamic web sites. In contrast to other web accelerators, such as Squid, which began life as a client-side cache, or Apache and nginx, which are primarily origin servers, Varnish was designed as an HTTP accelerator. Varnish is focused exclusively on HTTP, unlike other pro...

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

Pantheon hosts Drupal and Wordpress sites, while also delivering staging environments, backups, workflow, a global CDN and HTTPS.

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.

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.

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.