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    <title xml:lang="en-GB">AlessandroPolo.name - about web site</title>
    <title xml:lang="it-IT">AlessandroPolo.name - riguardo al Sito</title>

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      <author>
        <firstname>Alessandro</firstname>
        <surname>Polo</surname>
        <email>contact@alessandropolo.name</email>
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    <date>2008-12-13 09:32</date>
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    <abstract xml:lang="en-GB">
      Some information about www.AlessandroPolo.name website and its specifications.
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    <abstract xml:lang="it-IT">
      Informazioni riguardo al sito www.AlessandroPolo.name e le sue specifiche.
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      <keyword>about website</keyword>
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    <title xml:lang="en-GB">about AlessandroPolo.name</title>
    <title xml:lang="it-IT">riguardo AlessandroPolo.name</title>

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      <title xml:lang="en-GB">about web site</title>
      <title xml:lang="it-IT">riguardo al Sito</title>
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		<para xml:lang="en-GB">This website have been designed to be as accessible as possible. By separating the content from the presentation using <acronym title="Cascading style sheets">CSS</acronym> and <acronym title="Extensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</acronym> it will enable a wide range of computing platforms to access the site and ultimately be device independent.</para>
		<para xml:lang="it-IT">Questo sito &#232; stato sviluppato per essere accessibile e funzionale. Contenuto e presentazione sono separati grazie all'uso di <acronym title="Cascading style sheets">CSS</acronym> e <acronym title="Extensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</acronym> rendendolo indipendente al dispositivo utente.</para>

        <para xml:lang="en-GB">Developed on Linux Debian Etch with gEdit, designed for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(layout_engine)">Gecko browser Engine</a> (such as Iceweasel, Firefox).</para>
        <para xml:lang="it-IT">Sviluppato su piattaforma Linux (Debian Etch) utilizzando gEdit, disegnato per <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(layout_engine)">Gecko browser Engine</a> (come Iceweasel, Firefox).</para>

        <para xml:lang="en-GB">The website validate to <acronym title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym> published <a href="http://www.w3.org/Style/">CSS</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/">XHTML 1.0</a> guidelines and passes <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG1AA-Conformance">Level Double-A of the W3C-WAI Accessibility Guidelines 1.0</a>.<br/>Each page or resource of this Website is accessible within 3 clicks from home page.</para>
        <para xml:lang="it-IT">Il sito &#232; validato da <acronym title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym> per formati <a href="http://www.w3.org/Style/">CSS</a> e <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/">XHTML 1.0</a>, conferma le linee guida: <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG1AA-Conformance">Level Double-A of the W3C-WAI Accessibility Guidelines 1.0</a>.<br/>Ogni pagine e risorsa &#232; accessibile entro 3 clicks dalla pagina principale.</para>

        <para>
          <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer" title="Valid XHTML 1.0!">
          <img style="border:0;width:88px;height:31px" src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10" alt="Valid XHTML 1.0!" /></a>
          <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/" title="Valid CSS!">
          <img style="border:0;width:88px;height:31px" src="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/images/vcss" alt="Valid CSS!" /></a>
          <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG1A-Conformance" title="Level A conformance icon, W3C-WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0">
          <img style="border:0;width:88px;height:32px" src="http://www.w3.org/WAI/wcag1A" alt="Valid WAI"/></a>
        </para>
        <para xml:lang="en-GB">Any CSS standards compliant browser will display the site as intended. The site should render in older browsers but results - whilst still remaining usable - may vary.</para>
        <para xml:lang="en-GB">The site has been tested on PC and Macintosh platforms using the following browsers:</para>
        <para xml:lang="it-IT">Il sito &#232; stato testato su piattaforme x86 e Macintosh con i seguenti browsers:</para>
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          <li>PC - Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7; Netscape 7; Opera 7; Mozilla; Safari; Lynx;</li>
          <li>Macintosh - Microsoft Internet Explorer 6; Mozilla; Safari; Camino;</li>
        </ul>
        <para xml:lang="en-GB">Users of older computers may wish to consider <a href="http://www.opera.com/download/?custom=yes" title="Opera browser download">Opera</a> as a standards compliant browser requiring minimal resources, supporting a wide range of platforms.</para>

        <para xml:lang="en-GB">
          Compatble with:<br/>
          <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/" title="Compatible with Firefox"><img style="border:0;width:80px;height:15px" src="/_images/std.firefox.png" alt="Mozilla Firefox"/></a>
          <a href="http://www.microsoft.com" title="Compatible with Internet Explorer"><img style="border:0;width:80px;height:15px" src="/_images/std.ie.png" alt="Internet Explorer"/></a>
          <a href="http://www.mozilla.com" title="Compatible with Mozilla"><img style="border:0;width:80px;height:15px" src="/_images/std.mozilla.png" alt="Mozilla Browser"/></a>
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          Compatibile con:<br/>
          <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/" title="Compatible with Firefox"><img style="border:0;width:80px;height:15px" src="/_images/std.firefox.png" alt="Mozilla Firefox"/></a>
          <a href="http://www.microsoft.com" title="Compatible with Internet Explorer"><img style="border:0;width:80px;height:15px" src="/_images/std.ie.png" alt="Internet Explorer"/></a>
          <a href="http://www.mozilla.com" title="Compatible with Mozilla"><img style="border:0;width:80px;height:15px" src="/_images/std.mozilla.png" alt="Mozilla Browser"/></a>
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          Standard:<br/>
          <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer" title="Valid XHTML1"><img style="border:0;width:80px;height:15px" src="/_images/w3c.valid-xhtml.png" alt="valid XHTML"/></a>
          <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/" title="Valid CSS"><img style="border:0;width:80px;height:15px" src="/_images/w3c.valid-css.png" alt="valid CSS"/></a>
          <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/" title="Valid WAI AA "><img style="border:0;width:80px;height:15px" src="/_images/w3c.w3c-wai.png" alt="valid WAI AA"/></a>
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        <para xml:lang="en-GB">
          Powered by:<br/>
          <a href="http://www.php.net" title="PHP"><img style="border:0;width:80px;height:15px" src="/_images/w3c.php-powered.png" alt="PHP Powered"/></a>
          <a href="http://www.xml.com" title="XML"><img style="border:0;width:80px;height:15px" src="/_images/w3c.xml-feed.gif" alt="XML Powered"/></a>
          <a href="http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL" title="XSL "><img style="border:0;width:80px;height:15px" src="/_images/w3c.xsl-powered.png" alt="XSL Powered"/></a>
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        <para xml:lang="en-GB">Date format: ISO 8601</para>
        <para xml:lang="it-IT">Formato Data: ISO 8601</para>
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    <section>
      <title xml:lang="en-GB">acknoledgments</title>
      <title xml:lang="it-IT">ringraziamenti</title>
      <content>
        <para xml:lang="en-GB"><a href="http://www.AlessandroPolo.name">AlessandroPolo.name</a> has been authored and is currently maintained by <a href="mailto:contact@alessandropolo.name" title="contact Alessandro Polo">Alessandro Polo</a>.</para>
        <para xml:lang="it-IT"><a href="http://www.AlessandroPolo.name">AlessandroPolo.name</a> &#232; stato interamente concepito e sviluppato da <a href="mailto:contact@alessandropolo.name" title="contact Alessandro Polo">Alessandro Polo</a>.</para>
        <para><a href="http://www.ewgate.net/alex"><img style="border:0;width:80px;height:15px" src="/_images/w3c.apdesign.png" alt="AP Design"/></a></para>
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    <section>
      <title>standards</title>
      <content>
        <para xml:lang="en-GB">
          I have been working on websites and Internet-related standards for many years, this website is deeply based on XML datasources, using PHP and XSLT for rendering (with some workarounds because of Sablotron/PHP/DOM version).<br/>
		  Layout generation is driven by a custom <acronym title="Content Management System">CMS</acronym> engine I built: <acronym title="Simple Extendible Content Management System II">SECMS2</acronym>.<br/>
		  <a href="/blog">Blog</a> and <a href="/pictures">picture Gallery</a> engine have been developed as hoc from scratch. While Blog Engine is very simple and customized on my requirements, picture Gallery is a new interesting approach to images' grouping/rendering.<br/>
		  Website offers also RSS2.0 feeds (generated with RSS Feed Generator and XSLT) and XML Sitemap (google format).
        </para>
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		  Ho lavorato su siti web e standard legato ad Internet per anni, questo sito &#232; basato su sorgenti dati XML ed utilizza PHP e XSTL per l'impaginazione (con alcuni workaround a causa delle versioni Sablotron/PHP/DOM).<br/>
		  La generazione del layout &#232; gestita da un sistema <acronym title="Content Management System">CMS</acronym> che ho creato: <acronym title="Simple Extendible Content Management System II">SECMS2</acronym>.<br/>
		  <a href="/blog">Blog</a> e <a href="/pictures">Galleria fotografica</a> sono stati sviluppati ad hoc. Mentre il Blog ha funzioni limitate e implementate per le mie esigenze, la Galleria fotografica dimostra un nuovo approccio al raggruppamento e visualizzazioni di immagini.<br/>
		  Il sito offre anche feed RSS2.0 (generati con RSS Feed Generator e XSLT) e la mappa del sito in formato XML (formato google).
        </para>
      </content>
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    <section>
      <title>open source</title>
      <content>
        <para xml:lang="en-GB">Some parts of this website are released as open source (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">Creative Common License</a>) and they are available for download at <a href="/opensource">/opensource</a>
        </para>
        <para xml:lang="it-IT">Alcune parti del sito sono rilasciate come open source (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">Creative Common License</a>) e sono disponibili su <a href="/opensource">/opensource</a>
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