Here are some of the many resources I used to both inspire me and from which I modified CSS or javascript for use on my website. Hopefully my webpages will be at least a fair reflection of the excellence that these resources represent on the internet. Also here you will find some great resources for interesting information about the places I visited and which Ive researched for facts presented on these pages. To leave comments, suggestions or questions blog me! , for which there is also a link at the bottom of each page.


Some of the many excellent resources Ive researched for flora, fauna and natural history information presented on my zoo, wildlife and Galapagos pages are listed here:

• The Wikipedia is one of the finest encyclopedias on the net.
• The Honolulu Zoo Animal Species page has very informative information about hundreds of birds, mammals and reptiles.
• The SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Animal Bytes has great one-page fact sheets for hundreds of creatures in the animal kingdom.
• The San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes is one of the finest resources for concise information on hundreds of animal species, not to mention a first rate zoo.
• The Charles Darwin Foundation runs successful breeding programs for tortoises and land iguanas at the Charles Darwin Research Center on Santa Cruz and is a great resource of information regarding the the Galapagos Islands and its preservation.
• For fascinating information about the natural history of the Galapagos Islands, visit Dr. Robert Rothman's Natural History of the Galapagos Islands.
• Another great resource for the natural history, geology, climate and oceanography of the Galapagos Islands is Galapagos Geology on the Web.
• For one of the most excellent concise identification field guides Ive found for the Galapagos Islands' fauna, see Birds, Mammals, and Reptiles of the Galapagos Islands: An Identification Guide By Andy Swash, Rob Still.
• Another superbly illustrated and comprehensive identification guide for the Galapagos Islands' fauna and flora is Wildlife of the Galapagos by Fitter and Hosking.

Many of the Internet resources which have been essential to me while building this website are:

• For superb rounded corner dialog boxes with sliding doors method, visit Schillmania!
• With some modifications I use the excellent 100% CSS Image Gallery as my thumbnail viewer.
• For one of the best resources anywhere for cutting edge CSS demonstrations and for the scroll-drop menu I use on this site please visit
• For adaptable rounded edges visit Liquid Rounded Corners, an excellent, multifunctional and flexible css-concept with transparency for creating dynamically changing non-rectangular borders.
• For expert guidance in creating a conditional CSS stylesheet for only one version of our 'beloved' Internet Explorer, visit michaelnoga.com, Michael Noga's webdeveloper's website.
• The innovative Slimbox 1.0 is a 7kb visual clone of the popular and original Lightbox 2, authored by Lokesh Dhakar, written using the ultra compact mootools framework. It was designed to be small, efficient, more convenient and 100% compatible with the original Lightbox v2.
• For an excellent extended version of Slimbox which I now use visit Phatfusion.
• The Slimbox close button is a resized version of Jonathan Schemoul's excellent design.
• For help with Slimbox, visit freewebs farms forums.
• For help in modifying Lightbox for your needs visit the forum, Huddletogether.
• For downsizing your javascript files for more efficient page loading use the Internet's most efficient javascript compression tool, Bananascript.
• For help in creating multi columned lists viist the very informative site, CSS Swag.
• An excellent source for very small, tiled backgound designs is squidfingers.
• For great logo headings and much more, visit GrSites.
• These web pages are created by myself with TopStyle Pro, an excellent, stable and versatile XHTML and CSS editor that contains powerful tools for building standards-compliant web sites. Ive used this web editor after trying several others and I can highly recommend it.