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Smart Translation Solutions | Powerful Web Applications | Awesome Email Design | Creative and Collaborative IT |

Smart Translation Solutions | Powerful Web Applications | Awesome Email Design | Creative and Collaborative IT |

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Hi, my name is Michele!

It’s really nice to meet you.

I’m a technical translator for French, German, and Italian with three decades of experience. In addition, I’m the founder and CEO of iXtran.net, a creative agency for multilingual communication that helps brands, business, and humans elevate their visibility and impact.

Although primarily I “make translations and terminologies”, I follow closely topics such as visual design and visual communication. I enjoy web development.

Working with programming languages for the web or exploring related subjects and technologies (CSS frameworks, website usability, web accessibility, color theories, typography, and so on), gives me, among other things, the opportunity to further improve my communicative skills as a translator.

Despite computer linguistic knowledge, my interest in programming was pretty much zero, until I found out that coding was quite more than just “writing software”. It also implies how to enhance the synergy of aesthetics and functionality when, for example, it comes to the interaction/communication between user and website or web application.

As a translator I believe in the power of language. Whether it be a natural language or a formal language, it is essential to the communication and its effectiveness.

Here’s a non-exhaustive list of fields of activity and tools I like to use:

Web Applications (since 2022 until now):

  • HTML, CSS, JS/jQuery (the core of web development)
  • Node.js (runtime environment)
  • Tailwind CSS (utility-first CSS framework)
  • GSAP (animation framework)
  • WordPress (content management system)

Email Design (since 2022 until now):

  • Maizzle (framework for HTML email development—powered by Tailwind CSS)
  • MJML (email framework)

IT & Linux System Administration (since approx. 2010):

  • Bash scripting for server administration
  • Firewalls (CSF, nftables)
  • Mail servers (based on Postfix, Dovecot, LDAP)
  • Web servers (Apache, OpenLiteSpeed)
  • XMPP messaging servers (ejabberd)
  • VPNs and proxies (WireGuard, OpenVPN, SoftEther)
  • Virtualization in VMware environments

My Technical Toolkit

  1. Editors:
    • Pinegrow Web Editor
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Zed
  2. WordPress Builders:
    • Oxygen Builder
    • Builderius Website Builder
  3. WordPress Themes and Templates:
    • OceanWP
  4. WordPress Addons:
    • Blockstudio (custom PHP blocks)
    • Meta Box (custom fields)

Ready to start a project?

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micheleregina.com