This webpage is the culmination of more than five years of extracurricular webpage design. Developing webpages has been a strong hobby of mine. What you see before you is the end result of several years spent writing code, reading HTML books, reading the code of other websites, and all the trial and error associated with trying to create a visually stimulating website, based on what myself and others wanted to see. In this Credits section, I cover some of the questions visitors of my webpage may have, namely:

For various reasons I won't get into, I despise those user-friendly webpage software programs such as FrontPage and Dreamweaver. For this reason, everything on this site has been written strictly at the HTML code level. For those of you who are upset that my webpage does not support your browser of choice, let me outline exactly why I chose to make that sacrifice. For one, I am displeased with the fact that the most widely-used internet browsers do not all recognize the same exact set of instructions within the webpage code. A given command may be recognized perfectly by one browser, while it will be outright ignored by others. To create some of the more advanced website features and ensure that they operate in all of the major browsers, a great deal of redundancy is often needed in the code. For large and rather complex websites, this translates into a royal pain in the butt for any website developer. In some cases, the browser discrepancies can alltogether prevent certain features from ever being implemented. My secondary reason is simple: an overwhelming majority of all internet users utilize one version or another of Internet Explorer. Statistics will generally show an Internet Explorer market share of 85-90%, with some showing the share as 92% or higher. Given this knowledge, I opted to voice my disgust at the lack of browser incapabilities by throwing all my eggs in the IE basket. I see others doing the exact same thing. Maybe if enough developers jump ship, Netscape and some of the other browsers will begin to show signs of appropriate compatibility.

Those of you with slow-speed internet connections may also come to notice that loading times can be rather large on my webpage. Well, in 1997 or '98 when I began my webpage creations, I abided by the unwritten codes which suggested that picture sizes should remain very small to help promote quicker loading of pages. Well, we have come a long way since just 1997. We are now in the age where nearly everyone is considering one form of high-speed internet connection and only a few still operate in front of an 800x600 resolution monitor. To help showcase some of my abilities and take advantage of these ever-increasing platforms, I have opted not to handicap my page to the slower connections and lower resolution monitors. Some will suffer, no doubt... myself included! I am still operating off of a dial-up modem that has seen no higher than a 28.8k connection! But the number of people who will be affected by the bandwidth requirements of my site is small... and ever diminishing. I have utilized frames and image pre-loading to help lessen the effects of slow internet connections.

Getting back to the topic at hand, I would like to give recognition to all the individuals who have contributed to this website. Though I consider myself rather educated on the subject of HTML, I am not the man I wish I was with respect to many other related topics, such as JavaScript and graphics development. For this reason, I have utilized various scripts and graphics that were created elsewhere. From there, I then spent hours and hours and hours in Photoshop and Notepad modifying the scripts and graphics to fit with my visions. Many of the original authors and designers, however, are noted below. If you are the author of something utilized on my webpage and do not see just recognition, please contact me. It's not always easy to account for everything without forgetting one or two items.

Graphics - Nearly all of the graphics you see on my webpage were originally developed by the team at www.GUIstuff.com. This includes the switch, lightning, menu backgrounds, and all the similar images. Not a single image has been left unedited. In most cases, I spent at least one or two hours on each image, modifying it to my needs. The animations of the switch and lightning graphics were by far the most time-consuming. Visit www.GUIstuff.com for an excellent array of free GUI (Graphical User Interface) themes.

Photography - Unless otherwise noted within the webpage, all photographs were taken with my Panasonic PV-SD4090 digital camera. Maximum resolution is 1280x960 (1.3 megapixel). Higher resolution versions of any photos on this website can be obtained by contacting me. Please do not use any photos without my permission.

Additional Features and Resources - There are many other features to this webpage that can be loosely considered common knowledge among web developers. I cannot attribute my webpage knowledge to one single web resource. I will, however, do my best to list some of my favorite sites for researching HTML tricks and code. Keep in mind that the sky is certainly the limit when it comes to this field! There are literally thousands of websites aimed at providing helpful webpage building information. Beginning with the list below, you can begin to learn the basics behind some of the more common features of my webpage, including: mouseover animations, cascading style sheets (CSS), relative links, frames, flash, sound, web-friendly fonts and colors, DHTML, and much more. I no longer have my list of helpful online resources. As I find them, I'll be sure and add them to this list.