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StatCounter, a free online visitor stats tool. It offers its members the chance to grow and improve their online businesses by allowing them to monitor the number of hits to their website; the geographical location of visitors; the various pages a visitor views; keywords used to find the site plus other features.

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

jQuery UI is a curated set of user interface interactions, effects, widgets, and themes built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library. Whether you're building highly interactive web applications or you just need to add a date picker to a form control.

Modernizr is a JavaScript library that detects HTML5 and CSS3 features in the user’s browser and allows you to target specific browser functionality in your stylesheet.

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

CloudFlare is a global CDN and DNS provider that can speed up and protect any site online.

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

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

The 1&1 DNS management enables you to organize your domains in a simple and reliable way.

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 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.

Websites using https protocol.

The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

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.

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

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.

The iconic font and CSS toolkit