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Technologies in use by yaktrax.co.uk

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

Royal Mail is a mail service that connects companies, customers and communities across the UK and internationally.

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

Websites using some form of Captcha technology on them.

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

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

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.

Websites using Google technologies

A jQuery slider toolkit.

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

Form builder plugin for WordPress.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Direct payment via online banking.

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.

Websites with FAQ page

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

The http-equiv attribute provides an HTTP header for the information/value of the content attribute. The http-equiv attribute can be used to simulate an HTTP response header.

A canonical link element is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues by specifying the "canonical", or "preferred".

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

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