This Web site, WFY2000, has been created to inform and entertain, as well as give me a creative outlet to express myself and my Web skills. Of all the media I have ever tried, I find the Web my favorite.

This site has evolved to its present position over the course of four years. My first site, long since removed from the Penn State Hazleton server, was uploaded on 1996/02/16. GeoCities and Lookup.com (I don't think it exists anymore) also hosted my site, with GeoCities being the host for over two years. Yurasko.net, hosted by pair Networks , was established 1998/11/11. The most recent major overhaul was over 1999 Labor Day weekend, which I have referred to as The Eighth Generation Web site of William F. Yurasko. Other portions of WFY2000 have been added since. On April 22, this site was christened WFY2000. Prior to that it was christened WFY2K.

The template for WFY2000 was originally developed with Netscape Composer, but shortly thereafter it became strictly maintained by "hand-coded" HTML. I found that while Composer was quick, the limitations to be frusturating to work with and sometimes incompatible with other browsers.

Starting 2000/02/13 the site began the transition to XHTML 1.0, starting with the main page. I accomplished this using HTML-Kit and HTML Tidy, availible from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Pages (Including this page) showing the "W3C XHTML 1.0" seal have been validated by W3C.

Since I have switched to "hand-coded" HTML and now XHTML, the primary site should look fine regardless of platform. I have tested it on both Netscape 4.0 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 on Windows 95/98/NT and Mac platforms. I have not yet tested it on UNIX boxes or Web TV. Secondary parts of WFY2000, including The Beltway @ Yurasko.net and the Double V Campaign have yet to be tested or converted, but should be in the near future. The computers that I use to create this site have mainly been Intel Pentiums, especially my own 75 MHz (circa 1995), but also Pentium II and III's in the Penn State Center for Academic Computing labs with Netscape as the primary browser. As a result, WFY2000 will probably look the best on computers meeting those criteria, but similar, if not the same on other platforms and browsers.

The images were created using Adobe 4.0/5.0/5.5. Most of the images are GIFs, some of the photographs are JPEGs though. Many of the highway marker images were from James Lin or based on graphics created by him.

Time stamps are being added to all pages beginning on 2000/02/12 as they are altered.

Many fonts were downloaded from Larabie Fonts. For simplicity, I use basic fonts like Arial and Times New Roman, so your browser will not have trouble reading them.

Since autumn 1999, I have been using The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual, 34th edition, Banta, New York, as reference for content style.

Funding for WFY2000 and the rest of Yurasko.net has been provided by William H. Yurasko , Yurasko Group. If viewers like you wish to contribute, please feel free.

Thanks go out to the members of the Yurasko Group, Steve Anderson, Eric Folley, J. Ford Risley, Scott Oglesby, C.C. Slater, Kyle J. Thompson, T. William Harrison, Bradford M. Stratton , and many others for their help with this Web site.