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I'm still amazed that this Web site is listed among Yahoo's Most Popular Cycling Travelogue sites! It amazing how this site has grown in the 3 1/2 years since I first put this site online.

The site started out humbly, as a final project for an HTML class I took at Southwestern Illinois College in 2001. The logo at the top of the page did not exist in those days. The background for the entire site was the tan that I currently use for the background for the articles, including this blog. Unfortunately, I no longer have the files of that site, and none of those pages were archived.

Later that semester, I took a course in Dreamweaver. That's when I created the original site for the Tour de Stooges, also as a final project. I liked the color scheme that I used for that site, which included the tan background for text and a maroon background for everything else. Shortly after the course, I used Dreamweaver to enhance the entire site. To see what the site looked like in June 2001, click on the link to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine's findings:

Roger Kramer's Favorite Cycling Tours
Tour de Stooges

Later, many people in the Belleville Area Bicycling and Eating Society were having a hard time finding out when and where the riders were because of problems in distributing our parent organization's newsletter. I then decided to make the BABES part of the site to help our members find out about the rides and, for selfish reasons, bring more traffic to this site. See how the BABES site appeared in October 2001.

Over the years, I have strived to improve the appearance of the site. Along the way, I've had to re-edit some of the articles because of typos or missing words. My goal for 2005 is to do a significant redesign of the main site.

I want to thank all of you for helping Roger Kramer's Favorite Cycling Tours become a popular site in the bicycle touring community! I hope I continue to give you reasons to return to the site in the years to come!

Roger 0 comments 11:09 PM