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<span class="dropcap">T</span>his is a _minimalist_ web site: I do not care about fancy graphics or nitfy effects. I do care, however, about content and I want you to read what I write comfortably. As you can see, this site has no sidebars: it only has a header, a main column and a footer, exactly where you expect them to be.

This site was designed to work with all the major modern browsers (hint: Internet Explorer 6 is _not_ a modern browser). It validates as XHTML 1.1 Strict and CSS 2.1.

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h3. Under the Hood

This site is powered by:

* -A customized version of the "Typo":http://www.typosphere.org blogging engine.-
* -The "Ruby on Rails":http://www.rubyonrails.org web framework for the "Ruby":http://www.ruby-lang.org programming language.-
* -The "MySQL":http://www.mysql.com database engine.-
* -The "Apache":http://www.apache.org web server.-
* Just "Nanoc":http://nanoc.stoneship.org/, <em>"[...] a site compiler written in Ruby for building awesome web sites."</em> 

h3. Licensing

My "articles":/#archives and other material available on this web site are lincesed under the _Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported_license. For other uses, contact me.


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h3. Credits

I'd like to thank the following people for their work, which made this web site possible:

* "Denis Defreyne":http://www.stoneship.org/, for creating the wonderful "Nanoc":http://nanoc.stoneship.org/ site compiler.
* "David J.Perry":http://scholarsfonts.net/, who designed the "Cardo font":http://scholarsfonts.net/cardofnt.html I used for the H3RALD logo.
* The staff of "Archive.org":http://www.archive.org, for scanning the first edition of "A Complete Guide to Heraldry":http://www.archive.org/details/completeguidetoh00foxduoft, and making it available to the public. All the images featuring heraldric beasts, monsters and symbols are taken from there.