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Content Management Systems

WordPress is an open source blog publishing and content management system, based on PHP and MySQL.

WooCommerce is an open source e-commerce platform based on WordPress.

10Web (formerly Web-Dorado) Photo Gallery is a photo gallery platform based on WordPress.

Elementor is a WordPress-based website builder.

Server-side Programming Language

PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

Client-side Programming Language

JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, often used within web pages.

JavaScript Libraries

jQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resig.

Underscore is a JavaScript library that provides functional programming support.

Backbone is a JavaScript library providing a framework for defining models in applications.

Web Servers

The LiteSpeed Web Server is a lightweight web server by LiteSpeed Technologies.

Nginx (pronounced as "engine X") is a lightweight open source web server developed by Igor Sysoev.

Operating System

Unix is a range of operating systems originally developed at Bell Labs. This includes Unix and Unix-like systems, such as Linux.

Web Hosting Providers

ScalaHosting is a US-based web hosting provider. This includes its NS1.bg brand.

Flywheel provides managed WordPress hosting, owned by WP Engines.

Data Center Provider

ScalaHosting is a US-based web hosting provider. This includes its NS1.bg brand.

Reverse Proxy Service

Fastly is a content delivery network.

DNS Server Provider

Name.com is a domain registrar owned by Donuts.

Email Server Provider

Gmail is the email service provided by Google.

SSL Certificate Authority

Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority provided by the Internet Security Research Group.

Traffic Analysis Tool

Google Analytics is a free service to get detailed statistics about the visitors of a website, provided by Google. This includes the Ads conversion tracking and the Floodlight services.

Advertising Network

The Google Advertising network consists of AdSense, DoubleClick and other services.

Tag Manager

The Google Tag Manager is a Google service to support webmasters to manage tags on their websites.

Site Elements

External Cascading Style Sheets define style rules in a separate CSS file.

Embedded Cascading Style Sheets define a set of style rules in a <style> element within a web page.

Inline Cascading Style Sheets define style rules directly within an (X)HTML element using the style attribute.

Brotli is a lossless compression algorithm developed by Google.

HTTP/3 is the third major version of the HTTP network protocol, derived from the QUIC protocol.

QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) is an experimental network protocol, originally designed by Google and submitted to IETF standardization.

HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) defines a mechanism enabling web sites to declare themselves accessible only via secure connections.

The websites redirects visitors to use SSL encryption, e.g. from http://example.com/ to https://example.com/.

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

The websites redirects visitors to its www subdomain, e.g. from example.com to www.example.com.

Structured Data Formats

The Open Graph protocol, originally developed by Facebook, is an RDFa-based format that enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.

Twitter/X Cards enable automatic attachment of photos, videos and media elements to tweets.

JSON-LD (JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data) is a method of encoding Linked Data using JSON.

Generic RDFa (Resource Description Framework in attributes) is RDFa without further specialization.

Microdata is a specification to integrate metadata within existing content on web pages.

Markup Language

HTML5 is the fifth revision of the HTML standard.

Character Encoding

UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode, which is backwards compatible with ASCII.

Image File Formats

PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is a lossless compression image format, suitable to store graphics with uniformly colored areas, and originally introduced as a free, open-source successor of GIF.

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a lossy compression method suitable to store photographic images.

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format.

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