Burlington Writers Workshop Technology Stack

Cloud based storage systems by AWS.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive, evolving cloud computing platform provided by Amazon that includes a mixture of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and packaged software as a service (SaaS) offerings.

The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server.

The Apache Project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards.

ASP.net is an open source framework for building web applications and services with .NET and C#.

Bootstrap is a free and open-source front-end framework for designing websites and web applications. It contains HTML and CSS-based design templates for typography, forms, buttons, navigation and other interface components, as well as optional JavaScript extensions.

Font Awesome makes it easy to add vector icons and social logos to their website.

Gravatar is a service for providing globally unique avatars and was created by Tom Preston-Werner. It is owned by Automattic, having integrated it into their WordPress.com blogging platform.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript.

JavaScript is the programming language of HTML and the Web.

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is a server-side scripting language designed for Web development, but also used as a general-purpose programming language. PHP code may be embedded into HTML code, or it can be used in combination with various web template systems, web content management systems, and web frameworks.

Ecwid eCommerce shopping cart is a powerful, secure and easy-to-use online store solution.

Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service offered as part of Google's G Suite, with 15GB of storage, color-coded inbox filters and unsend button.

G Suite is a suite of apps from Google which offers a number of tools to communicate and collaborate with colleagues, store files, and manage data.

Whatsapp Business powers businesses communication with customers all over the world, so they can connect with them on WhatsApp in a simple, secure, and reliable way.

Zoom is a scalable, cloud based video conferencing & web conferencing platform enabling online meetings, webinars, file sharing, group messaging and more.

Google Analytics allows users to measure sales & conversions, plus gain fresh insights into how visitors use sites, & how they arrived on site.

Google Calendar is an get a button on its browser toolbar that they can easily click to see upcoming events from google calendar, without ever leaving their page. And if they are on sites that have special events encoded, it can click the button to instantly add events to they calendar.

Project management & team collaboration tool with trainable artificial intelligence.

Hostgator is a web hosting provider that provides services for hosting websites and blogs online and Hostgator is used for purchasing domain names online.

PodBean offers solutions for podcast publishing, promoting and advertising.

Vimeo PRO is a business video hosting platform.

WordPress is a website and blog creation and publishing platform with tools for aesthetic designing, visitor tracking, content storage and upload.

WPForms is the WordPress forms plugin with drag & drop online form builder that allows users to create powerful WordPress forms.

Yoast offers plugins to improve SEO and optimize web sites and blogs.

YouTube is a video sharing service where users can watch, like, share, comment and upload their own videos. The video service can be accessed on PCs, laptops, tablets and via mobile phones.

Hostgator DNS is a Domain Name System (DNS) solution provider of Web Hosting, VPS Hosting, Reseller Hosting, Dedicated Servers, Windows Hosting, and WordPress Hosting

Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform for creative projects such as movies, music, art, theater, games, comics, design, and photography.

PayPal is a global eCommerce platform for buyers & sellers. PayPal allows payments & money transfers to be made securely via email, phone, text message or Skype.

Square is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.

Square Point of Sale is a POS solution for Android and iOS devices which includes tools for managing payments, digital receipts, inventory and reports

reCAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA-like system designed by Google to establish that a computer user is human.

Shopify is a commerce platform that allows anyone to easily sell online, at a retail location, and everywhere.

Submittable is a submissions platform that can be used to accept, review and manage school admissions and job applications amongst others.