The “about” page was posted today, if you’d like to know more about the Handbook and its authors.

Why is the site so GREEN? someone asked… Maybe because the view out my office window, as I work to put the site together, has been as luscious green as I can remember, thanks to weeks of rain here in Philadelphia.

It’s also because the 3rd edition is an unusual color: celery green. 13 years ago, when we received a mock-up of the cover just before the initial print run, it was a pale salmon PINK! I had visions of it being shelved with the toddler parenting books and chick lit. Fortunately we were able to convince them to switch and they picked this intriguing shade of green.

The last reason is because — like a book cover — it’s useful and fun to create a webpage and blog which look distinctly different from “the usual” without being fancy. Color can do that.