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My Web Design philosophy in 4 keypoints:

  1. Simplicity: I really care about user experience. Clean layouts with pleasant graphics and easy-to-use interfaces are my favourites.

  2. Web Standards: my websites are XHTML 1.0 and CSS valid. Following web standards is important to make the site more accessible and compatible. Standards compliant websites are also more appreciated by search engines spiders: they will be listed above others, obtaining more visitors.

  3. Cross-browser compatibility: 58,5% users use Internet Explorer, and an increasing 31,4% use Mozilla Firefox, while another 10,01% prefers other browsers (W3counter Aug/08 statistics). Having a website compatible with multiple browsers increase your audience. For the same reason it's important that the website works correctly with different screen resolutions.

  4. Accessibility: I believe it's very important to ensure that your website is accessible to impaired users, for they often use special devices and/or special software.


Works in progress:

(2008) - MammaRoma.org

About the customer: MammaRoma is an Italian non-profit association led by young professionals engaged in the social, economical, cultural fields of the city of Rome, in contact with its citizens.

About the site: XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.1 compliant. CSS potentialities are carefully utilized to provide a different representation of the site depending by the media used for its visualization: computer screens would get the standard look; printed pages would have the graphics elements of the layout removed and a different formatting of the text: this provides a better reading experience and less waste of paper and ink. This website is also full working with all the devices that disable CSS, as the devices for impaired users.

URL: coming soon ! 		MammaRoma website preview image

(2007 - 2008) - Laboratory of Neurochemistry (Redesign)

About the customer: the Laboratory of Neurochemistry was founded in 1997 as a "joint venture" of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and the Foundation Santa Lucia IRCCS, Rome. The main focus of the research is on neurodegenerative diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.

About the site: this site is a complete redesign of the old site, wich was outdated both technically and in its contents. XHTML 1.0 STRICT and CSS 2.1 Valid. I used PHP and MySql for the dynamic parts, especially for the Administration Control Panel, a tool requested by the customer to update some contenents of the site easily and indipendently.

URL: coming soon ! 		Laboratory of Neurochemistry new website preview image


Future Projects:

L'Ibisco di Massimiliano Nigro

About the customer: Massimiliano Nicola Nigro

About the site: coming soon !.

URL: coming soon ! 		Massimiliano Nigro's website preview image


Completed Projects:

(2008) - Antares88.com

About the customer: myself.

About the site: my portfolio. XHTML 1.0 and CSS2.1 valid. A bit of PHP around.

URL: http://www.antares88.com 		Antares88.com new website preview image

(2007) - Mutant SOD1 and familial ALS: from the molecule to man

About the customer: "Mutant SOD1 and familial ALS: from the molecule to man" was a congress held in Milan, Italy, September 13-16, 2007. This website provided information about the symposium together with guidelines for registration, hotel booking and abstract submission.

About the site: this site respects W3C standards XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.1. It's tableless and uses CSS for positioning. There's also a bit of php for navigation and dynamic title generation.

URL: http://www.hpage.it/sod1_als/ 		Mutant SOD1 and familial ALS: from the molecule to man Congress website preview image

(2005) - Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology

About the customer: Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, lead by Claudia Bagni, has been studying for several years the cause of the Fragile X syndrome. The Fragile X Syndrome is the most frequent cause of inherited mental retardation (1:2500 males, 1:4000 females) and is linked to the absence of the Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein FMRP.

About the site: actually this website is technically outdated. It featured some simple graphic experiments with CSS and it's viewable at 800x600 without lateral scrolling, even if at that time the main trend was making websites with a fixed width optimized for 1024x768 resolution.

URL: http://www.hpage.it/cbl/ 		Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology website preview image

(2003) Laboratory of Neurochemistry

About the customer: the Laboratory of Neurochemistry was founded in 1997 as a "joint venture" of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and the Foundation Santa Lucia IRCCS, Rome. The main focus of the research is on neurodegenerative diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.

About the site: actually this website is technically outdated. It featured some simple experiments with rollovers, CSS, and PHP. It's viewable at 800x600 without lateral scrolling, even if at that time the main trend was making websites with a fixed width optimized for 1024x768 resolution.

URL: http://www.hpage.it/lnchem/ 		Laboratory of Neurochemistry old website preview image