First I would like to thank Katy Schneider, the creative director of a well known Bay Area company, for her excellent help. In spite of her busy schedule, Katy managed to spend a generous amount of her time creating, designing and organizing the layout of my Web site using Fireworks, as well as many hours of creative editing, marketing strategy work, and copy editing.

I would also like to thank Ted Whipple of Incite Design, a San Francisco-based web site development company. Ted provided core production work, including HTML and CGI programming, as well as additional graphic work. Ted developed the site's interactive features with the goal of making them easy and fun to use.

Finally, I would like to thank my sister, Akiko Shurtleff, for her love, moral and artistic advice and outstanding expertise. She and Katy worked together to set the tone and overall appearance of the site. Her contributions and insistence on maintaining high standards were invaluable to me and instrumental in bringing this entire project to its fruition.