That's because I relied on no less than 13 talented professionals - from 6 countries, spanning 3 continents - for help with their specific skills.

I was fortunate to work with some excellent copywriters who helped me take some very sketchy ideas and turn them into compelling text. Richard Bloch wrote the original English version and offered suggestions on how visuals and copy could work together to illustrate my concept and vision.

Translation was an immense challenge, mainly because I demanded that the other language versions come across as original - not as a mere verbatim translations of Richard's text. Franziska Haug was responsible for the German version. René Buuts Concept & Copy helped us with the Dutch copy. Adriana Celis and Hector Bravo worked together as a team on the Spanish version.

My friends Rolf Hess, Martin Siebold and Dominic Speiser volunteered their valuable time critiquing the initial versions of the site and the brochure and made many worthwhile suggestions.

Brad Richards of Kraan and Richards took the myriad components, put them together and physically created the first version of the web site and the brochure in all four languages. He set up the hosting and made sure the search engines treat us nicely. Moreover, he managed to stay sane when I was not.

And long after I thought I was done, my wife, Renée, tore it all apart and helped me make it even better.

Finally, a few months after the first version was finished and available, Teun van der Heijden and Lena Kuppens of Heijdens Karwei applied their considerable design talents to make the current version a web site and a brochure we can all be proud of.

To round it all off, Kristian Castruita helped me implement the foreign language versions.