Alan and Lucy Richmond

EncycloZine.com Richmond : Alan, Lucy, Mark, Neil

Alan and Lucy met in 1988 while developing software for managing data from the HST. Alan was at the Space Telescope Coordinating Facility in Germany, Lucy was at the Space Telescope Science Institute in the USA. Neil was born in Cambridge, England, in 1990, and Mark was born in Grenoble, France, in 1992. We now live in Herefordshire, England.

We founded the Web Developer's Virtual Library in 1994; it was the first commercial web site for web developers. We sold it, supported it for one more year, then founded EncycloZine in 1998 - the first site written in XHTML. We developed EncycloZine for nearly 3 years before deciding that our extensive content would be perfectly suited to an online book store. Our carefully designed content structures (a shallow, richly cross-linked hierarchy) serves as 'virtual bookshelves', making it easy for you to quickly locate topics and books of interest.

We operate Curious Minds, an online store for games, puzzles, and science kits and toys.

I'm Alan Richmond. I was a software developer for several international scientific research institutes & projects, e.g. the HST. I was a web developer since 1993, starting at NASA/GSFC (near Washington, DC). I founded the Web Developer's Virtual Library, the web's first commercial web site for web developers. I founded EncycloZine, the web's first XHTML site, in November 1998.

I'm Lucy Richmond. I have a BA in English from Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama, and an MBA in Management from Georgia State University, in Atlanta, Georgia. My first job was as a Technical Editor but I quickly got into computer programming and have over 12 years of programming experience. Before starting my family, I was first a Database Specialist and later the STSDAS Software Systems Administrator for The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.