www.glc.org Acknowledgments

There are many people, organizations, and objects without whom/which this website would not have been possible (or would not have turned out as good as it did). With that in mind, I'd like to thank the following entities for their energy, aid, trust, and support.

• Mike Donahue and Christine Manninen for giving me this project, time to work on it, great administrative support, and an enthusiastic and thoughtful setting in which to develop, review, edit, and maintain www.glc.org



• Morgan Anderson, II and Sara Ashley for their original development, design, expansion, and maintenance of the first modern version of www.glc.org



• Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-scale Web Sites By Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville (written in our very own Ann Arbor, MI) for all of the information on hierarchy design and organization and ease-of-use theory



• Jakob Nielsen's http://www.useit.com/ (especially the AlertBox for all of the usability ideas and strategies



• Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug for all of the user experience scenarios and help with navigation



• www.sony.com for providing design inspiration



• HierMenus for providing the code driving our DHTML drop-down navigation menus



• Gary Overmier, Stuart Eddy, Jon MacDonagh-Dumler, Beth Moore, Kirk Haverkamp, Dan Blake, Thomas Jabusch, Mike Donahue, Michael Schneider, Ric Lawson, Matt Doss, Steve Thorp, and Jennifer Read for their thorough -- and extremely helpful! -- reviews and feedback



• Kevin Yam, for developing the "inside page" templates and for listening to me whine



• Hao Zhuang, for developing the PHP includes, setting up our server with MERIT, testing on various browsers, and for listening to me whine



• Stuart Eddy, for listening to me whine



• Beth Moore, for listening to me whine



• Dave Brenner (his nephew calls him "The Man of Steel") of Michigan Sea Grant for the great photos, chats, gel-trate, and Indian food... and for listening to me whine



• EPA-GLNPO's Visualizing the Great Lakes library of stock photos -- even though they have a broken link to GLIN!



• Matthew J. Bokach for staying in touch and describing his adventures down south and back east



• Trek, Merrel, and Chaco for providing my personal transporation between work and home



• Jefferson Market: Everyone should be so lucky as to (re-)build an environmental non-profit organization's web site while sippin' their fine, fine coffee



• Ann Arbor Farmer's Market for the vegetables and "brains"



• Bob Marley, Sublime, John Williams, Barenaked Ladies, Dave Matthews Band, Alicia Keys, Nikka Costa, Cry on Cue, Living Color, James Brown, Young M.C., Amazon.com, and (especially) Half.com and eBay for all of their great tunes



• IKEA, for reasons of a semi-disposable Swedish nature



• Douglas Coupland and Kurt Vonnegut, for helping me unwind



• The CCRB, where I should have been unwinding



• Marja Sofia Huhta, for being so Good

-- Jonathon D. Colman