Recent Technology Changes in mikegerrard.net

See full history

Technologies in use by mikegerrard.net

Globally Recognized Avatar

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

Pinterest is a social networking site with a visually-pleasing virtual pinboard interface. Users collect photos and link to products they love, creating their own pinboards and following the pinboards of other people whom they find interesting. The site has experienced rapid growth in recent months.

All Twitter's social tools, including buttons and timeline widgets.

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

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

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

Websites using Google technologies

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

BlueHost web hosting services

A family of standard web feed formats used to publish frequently updated information like blog entries, news headlines, audio and video.

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.

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.

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.

Sites who has this tag are verfied by google to use WebMaster tools

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

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