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We've been developing websites since 1993, starting at NASA's GSFC. Alan has lectured in HTML and other web technologies, and we founded the Web Developer's Virtual Library in 1995 - the web's first commercial website for web developers. We have an extensive background in scientific computing, and we (Alan and Lucy) met in 1988 while developing archival software for the Hubble Space Telescope. Alan was at the Space Telescope Coordinating Facility in Germany, Lucy was at the Space Telescope Science Institute in the USA.
Alan Richmond
was a software developer for several international scientific research institutes
& projects, e.g. the Hubble Space Telescope.
He started building web sites from almost the beginning of the web,
in 1993 for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (near Washington, DC).
He founded the Web Developer's Virtual Library,
the web's first commercial web site for web developers.
He founded EncycloZine,
the web's first XHTML site, in November 1998.
Alan has also worked on nuclear fusion and fission devices and a synchrotron
(a powerful X-ray research machine).
Alan has also been a science teacher, and home educated his sons in science.
Lucy Richmond
has a BA in English from Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama,
and an MBA in Management from Georgia State University, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Her first job was as a Technical Editor but she quickly got into computer
programming and has over 12 years of programming experience.
Before starting her family, she was first a Database Specialist and later the
STSDAS Software Systems Administrator for The Space Telescope Science Institute
in Baltimore, Maryland.
Curious Minds
Curious Minds is an online science shop featuring a wide range of Science, Nature, Space, & Technology toys, kits, and gifts vetted for scientific integrity by our helpful & friendly ex-NASA/HST staff. Subjects: Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, History of Science, Physics, Technology;
EncycloZine
EncycloZine is an encyclopedic magazine providing concise illustrated overviews of major topics (Arts, History, Recreation, Science, Society, Technology), and links to further information in other resources. It also recommends relevant books, posters, and other products. There is a discussion forum.
Kosmoi
our photo gallery, with over a thousand photos mostly about cats, Curious Minds' products (our science shop), farm & nature, flowers, optical illusions (from Eluzions.com), our mostly Physics museum, and places.