Recent Technology Changes in wmyc.org.uk

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Technologies in use by wmyc.org.uk

Anti-bot CAPTCHA widget that helps digitize books by providing snippets of books for people to enter the text for. Owned by Google.

MarineTraffic displays near real-time positions of ships and yachts worldwide. Connected to the largest network of AIS receivers, the app covers most major ports and shipping routes.

Websites embedding Google maps.

FancyBox is a tool for displaying images, html content and multi-media in a Mac-style "lightbox" that floats overtop of web page.

Websites using Google technologies

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.

Google APIs are application programming interfaces developed by Google which allow communication with Google Services and their integration to other services.

iOS Safari instructions for mobile web apps

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

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

Contact form builder and lead data management plugin for WordPress.

Websites using some type of cookie consent system

Previously Google Apps for Business. G Suite is a cloud-based productivity suite that helps you and your team connect and get work done from anywhere on any device. It's simple to setup, use and manage, allowing you to work smarter and focus on what really matters.

LiteSpeed web server is a light-weight server which conserves resources without sacrificing performance, security, compatibility, or convenience. It is capable of handling multiple concurrent clients with minimal memory consumption and CPU usage.

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.

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

Stripe is a developer-friendly way to accept payments online and in mobile apps.

Websites using https protocol.

The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

A web page. Every web page is implicitly assumed to be declared to be of type WebPage, so the various properties about that webpage, such as breadcrumb may be used. We recommend explicit declaration if these properties are specified, but if they are found outside of an itemscope, they will be assumed to be about the page

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.

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

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