San Diego Graphics Firm Selected For
Florida In A Box Web Site Design

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. -- Drawing A Crowd, a San Diego-based graphic design firm, has been selected to construct the Internet site that will herald the grand opening of Florida In A Box.

“We are excited to be working with Miko Radcliffe and her talented staff of designers at Drawing A Crowd,” said Christine L. Carrizales, creative services director for Florida In A Box. “Miko’s unique blend of creativity and design expertise will guarantee a Web site that provides customers with an enjoyable online shopping experience.”

Initial design work on the Web site -- www.floridainabox.com -- began in May. The newly established mail order company, which specializes in Florida-themed gift, food, and household products, will hold its grand opening in August. For more information about Drawing A Crowd or to view the company’s design portfolio, please visit www.drawingacrowd.net.

Iguana Invasion Hits Florida

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. -- In neighborhoods from Key Biscayne to Boca Raton, it is the night, and day, of the fearsome-looking iguana. Escaped from captivity, or turned loose in the wild by pet owners, the large, usually green-skinned reptiles that can reach 6 feet in length are multiplying rapidly.

Native to Central and South America, the voracious, fleet-footed iguana has no natural enemies in the suburbs of South Florida. Colonies of the big lizards now inhabit a Fort Lauderdale park, some of the most select communities of Palm Beach County and islets of the Florida Keys. The evident explosion in their numbers is just one more instance of the headaches created in Florida by "exotics," that is, nonnative species of plants and animals that have gotten loose and found the lush, subtropical setting as much to their liking as humans have.

At Ocean Village Condominiums near the park in Fort Lauderdale, hordes of iguanas coming over the fence have devoured the hibiscus bushes and fouled the grounds with excrement. Employees put out cages to trap them, but the reptiles quickly became wise to the danger and avoided them.

"We try to capture them. The biggest one we've caught was 5 feet, 4 inches," said Jim Dowd, manager of the four-story, 140-unit complex. "If you met that guy in an alley, you would be pretty scared. They might whip you with their tails."
Source: The New York Times