The American Cetacean Society is the world's oldest nonprofit devoted to whale and dolphin conservation. This group of dedicated volunteers provides free educational materials, promotes public awareness of issues facing cetaceans, and undertakes projects local to the chapters. The national website provides a vehicle for distributing some of those educational resources and is a forum for promoting public awareness of issues.

The content for the ACS national website has come from a variety of sources. It's a remodel, and we attempted to keep as much of the prior contents as possible. There is a credits page on the site listing the photographers and other contributors. Most of these are volunteers. We've worn almost every hat a site developer can wear for this project.

This is a large site which has both depth and breadth. When you visit it, you'll see that the organization and navigation are so well developed that you can tell what's available and get there with only a little effort.

There is a wide variety of page types on the site, but almost all have one thing in common - they load quickly, and are usable back to version 3 of Internet Explorer but have features that cable users will appreciate.

The ACS site has a lot of examples of various ways of using graphics, from simple rollovers and illustrations which seem to float to photos available in multiple sizes, slide shows, use maps, seamless tiles, small animations, and more. These add interest to the site tastefully.

The conference sections all have their own themes, which is kinda fun.

The pages are all flexible and adjust themselves to fit the size of the viewing area. They automatically compress for smaller monitors and portrait printing, and expand for larger monitors and wider printing.