Origins: In late 1995 I made some sketches of the site design, then implemented it using BBedit and PageMill in early 1996, with graphics done in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. Sometime in 1997 I added a frame to provide constant site-wide navigation (even though I don't really like frames that well, it seemed the best approach given there is a lot of scrolling material on the site). In 1998 I renamed the site VirtualParks.org and migrated the identity from "Erik's Maps and QTVRs." A Search capability was added in 1999, and in 2000 the frames were finally removed. The look and feel was redesigned in 2001. Currently I use Macromedia Dreamweaver, and BBedit v6.5 to edit content.

Thanks: I want to thank Greg Merrell for generously supporting VirtualParks, and generally being a great friend... thanks to Mark Elliot for photographic advice early on... thanks to Brian Reid for support early on, thanks to Bob Taylor for encouraging me to present the early version of the site to the researchers at SRC, and thanks to everyone who has contributed their ideas and feedback regarding this project.

Along Green Creek