As printed on the site
Two site credits, two eras
Two footers, several years apart, name two entirely different parties as responsible for building the site. The 2011 history and about pages close with: "Website Design by Grant Advertising Design | Photos by Mike Duvall and Suzanne Murphy." The 2014-2015 WordPress-era pages close with a shorter line instead: "Site credit: Cape Publishing, Inc."
Neither credit names the association's own staff as the builder of the site. Both point outward, to a hired designer or a hired publisher handling the technical side.
What the 2011 credit specified
The earlier credit separated two distinct kinds of work: website design, attributed by name to Grant Advertising Design, and photography, attributed separately to two individual people, Mike Duvall and Suzanne Murphy. This is the only place in any page captured anywhere in this archive where individual people, rather than organizations or job titles, are named as contributors to the site's construction. Wave one's articles, drawing only on the 2002 and 2006 captures, named no individuals of any kind at all, making this the single exception across both waves of this project, out of every page either wave has reviewed in building these twenty articles about one small historic lodging association on the Jersey Shore, over more than a decade of its own printed history.
The credit appears identically on both the 2011 about page and the 2011 history page, worded the same way in both places, which suggests it was a site-wide footer element applied consistently rather than a one-off note added to a single page by mistake or carried over unevenly from one page to the next.
What the later credit specified
By 2014-2015, the footer had shortened considerably to a single company name, Cape Publishing, Inc., with no separate photography credit at all and no individual names mentioned anywhere on the page. This matches a platform change as well as a simple credit change: the 2011 pages are static HTML pages, while the 2014-2015 pages run on WordPress, complete with post dates, an "admin" author byline on every single listing, and a different visual structure entirely, as described across the category-page articles elsewhere in this wave of research.
A new technical platform reasonably comes with a new site builder taking over the work, which would plausibly account for the change in credited party between the two eras. The archive does not confirm this explanation directly; it only shows that the credit line and the underlying platform changed together, at roughly the same point in the site's recorded history.
| Capture | Design credit | Photography credit |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 (static HTML) | Grant Advertising Design | Mike Duvall and Suzanne Murphy, named individually |
| 2014-2015 (WordPress) | Cape Publishing, Inc. | Not separately credited anywhere on the page |
Why a credit line is worth reading closely
A footer credit is one of the few places an old, archived commercial site states, in its own exact words, who built it, entirely separate from what the site is actually selling to a visitor. For a directory built around verifying claims against their own source pages, as this whole wave has done repeatedly for member counts and construction dates covered in the construction-cutoff article, the credit line is itself a small, genuinely verifiable fact: the 2011 pages and the 2014-2015 pages were, on their own printed evidence, built by two different outside parties working at different times, for the same association, years apart from one another, with no printed overlap between the two.
That is consistent with, though not strict proof of, the site changing hands or changing web developers somewhere between the two captures, layered on top of the much larger and more visible change from a static HTML build to a full WordPress build with its own post dates and author bylines running through every single listing on the roster.
What a change in credit might explain
A new design vendor taking over a site is a plausible, ordinary reason for a shorter, more generic footer credit to replace a longer, more personal one. Agencies and publishers vary in how much detail they choose to print about their own staff, and a company credit like "Cape Publishing, Inc." is a common, unremarkable style on commercial sites of that era, not an unusual choice in itself for a small regional publisher.
What makes the change worth recording here is simply that it lines up, in time, with every other change this wave has found on the same site: the member count, the construction cutoff, and the platform itself all shifted together, loosely, between the earlier static pages and the later WordPress build, rather than any one of them changing in isolation from the rest. Seen together, the four changes read as one larger transition rather than four unrelated edits, likely tied to a single decision to rebuild the whole site on a new platform with a new team behind it entirely.
What neither credit mentions
Neither footer names a specific date for when the design work itself was completed, a contract length, or a stated reason for any change in vendor between the two eras. Neither mentions an email address for the association itself anywhere on the page, a gap wave one's article on calling the hotline already noted for the earlier captures of the site. The credit lines answer the narrow question of who built the site, not the separate question of how to reach the people who actually run it day to day. A visitor wanting to confirm any of these details directly, rather than through the hotline, would have had no printed contact path to do so, on either version of the site this archive holds, static or WordPress alike. The only working contact method printed anywhere across both eras was the phone number itself, covered at length in wave one and in the companion article in this wave, which found that same exact number unchanged across both platforms, static and WordPress alike, for well over a decade.
Questions
Were Mike Duvall and Suzanne Murphy credited anywhere else on the site?
Not in the pages captured for this archive. The 2011 about and history pages are the only two carrying that specific photography credit.
Does Cape Publishing, Inc. still credit the site today?
This archive only covers captures through 2015. It makes no claim about who credits the site in its current, present-day form.
Did the photographs themselves change between the two eras?
This archive's text-level capture does not confirm which, if any, photographs carried over between the two separate site builds.