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A freely available eCommerce plugin that enables shop facilities on your WordPress website.

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

Websites embedding Google maps.

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

Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface.

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.

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

Embedded videos from YouTube.

Embedded videos from Vimeo.

iOS Safari instructions for mobile web apps

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

Websites with cart functionality on them

PayPal is a American international e-commerce service that enables companies and individuals to send money and to accept payments without revealing any financial details.

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

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

Websites using Google technologies

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

UK based domain name registration, SSL, VPS and hosting services. Part of WebFusion.

A rich hosted Exchange environment for every user without having to manage a server.

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.

Windows Live Writer Tagging Support Schema

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

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.

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".

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

A scheme.org entity that represents an article, such as a news article or piece of investigative report. Newspapers and magazines have articles of many different types and this is intended to cover them all.

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

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

The iconic font and CSS toolkit