Appendix B: About the Guest Experts

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Overview

Doug Sahlin is an author, graphic designer, and Web-site designer living in Central Florida. He is the author of ten books on graphic design, including: How To Do Everything with Adobe 5.0, Flash MX ActionScript for Designers, Flash MX ActionScript for Dummies, and Fireworks MX Complete Reference. Doug created an online Flash 4 course for DigitalThink. His articles and product reviews have appeared in national publications, such as 3D, Computer Graphics World, Video Systems, and Corel Magazine. His tutorials have been featured at numerous Web sites devoted to graphic design.

Japi Honoo resides in Venice, Italy, and designs Web sites and organizes the Italian Fireworks Web site www.escogitando.it. Before taking the plunge into Web design, Japi worked as a bookkeeper. A job in a software house, however, allowed Japi to free her creativity and turn her energies toward digital art. She has since dedicated her life to encouraging the appreciation of Fireworks (that's a slight exaggeration — but not much!). Her diversions include intense music, oriental culture, films, and a love of emoticons.

Kim Cavanaugh is the author of Fireworks MX: A Beginner's Guide and Dreamweaver 4/Fireworks 4 Studio: A Beginner's Guide. Kim began his adventures in the world of Web and graphic design in 1997, when he began developing a curriculum for a course in Web design for students at Congress Middle School of Math, Science, and Technology in Boynton Beach, Florida, where he teaches Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, and Freehand and is the school technology coordinator. Kim is currently a Team Macromedia volunteer for Fireworks. Additional tutorials for Dreamweaver and Fireworks can be found at Kim's site: www.dw-fw-beginners.com.

Steven Grosvenor is cofounder of www.phireworx.com, a Fireworks resource site, contributing author of Fireworks MX Magic, Special Edition Using Fireworks MX, and Fireworks MX Fundamentals. Grosvenor is senior systems architect for a managed Internet security company in the United Kingdom. His background is in cross-platform systems integration, interface design, and interaction and architecture design. Demand from users for a customized, interactive experience led him to develop and create many timesaving and creative commands and behaviors for Dreamweaver and Fireworks, vastly reducing deployment time for corporate sites and increasing their portability and scalability. His drive to increase team productivity led him to develop extensibility add-ons for other products in the Macromedia Web suite, including Dreamweaver MX, Fireworks MX, and Flash MX. One of the new breeds of commands for Fireworks MX, "Twist and Fade 3.0," created by Grosvenor, had the accolade of shipping with Fireworks MX. His other publications include several Fireworks MX and Dreamweaver MX tutorials, which you can find at www.macromedia.com.

David C. Nicholls is a Web developer, physicist, writer, photographer, and a recognized authority on graphics-compression software, antique golf clubs, and regional fern species. He is co-author of the book Playing with Fire — Tapping the Power of Macromedia Firework 4 with Linda Rathgeber. He has contributed articles to numerous publications, including PC magazines, hi-fi magazines and amateur radio journals, computer instruction manuals, book reviews in newspaper literary columns, scientific journals, and government reports. David lives in Canberra, Australia with his wife, Trish, and assorted computers named Grunter, Xerxes, Darius, Perseus, and Wally. He can be reached at www.dcnicholls.com and www.home.aone.net.au/byzantium/.

Charles E Brown transferred his creative skills from music (he has a doctorate in music and studied with Igor Stravinsky) to computers in 1981. Charles does Web designs for major corporations, is a busy trainer conducting nearly 100 workshops per year, and is a frequent speaker at conferences.

Brad Halstead (www.prettylady2.net) is a computer software engineering technologist by training, but deviated from that dream to join the Canadian military as an air weapons systems technician. In that role, he learned all about various computerized aircraft weapons systems as well as loading the munitions. Brad has dabbled in the Web in various capacities since 1989 and left the military to become a full-time computer technician. He tries to play an active roll in the support forums for Dreamweaver and Project Seven as time permits him to. He is HTML 4.01 certified and has contributed to Dreamweaver MX Magic and Inside Dreamweaver MX, in addition to being a technical editor for both publications. Recently, Brad and Murray Summers have written Dreamweaver MX Templates. He lives in London, Ontario, with his cherished partner Brenda and their 8-year-old daughter Megan, 13-year-old daughter Amanda, 12-year-old son Aaron, 2 Yorkshire Terriers, and a cat.

Murray Summers is a biochemist by training, but has spent the last 20 years working in the computer industry. In 1998, Murray started his own Web site production company, Great Web Sights (www.great-web-sites.com). As a Team Macromedia Volunteer, he also participates in the sponsored newsgroups for Dreamweaver and other Macromedia products. He lives in rural Philadelphia with Suzanne, his lovely wife, their teenage daughter Carly, a Golden Retriever, an Eskipoo, and some goldfish. Murray is a Macromedia certified Web site developer and Dreamweaver developer and has contributed chapters to Dreamweaver 4 Magic by Al Sparber and Dreamweaver 4: The Missing Manual, by David Sawyer McFarland, in addition to serving as technical editor on the latter publication. He has managed to embarrass himself several times as an invited speaker at TODCON and will most likely do so again at TODCON II.

Samuel Neff is a senior software engineer with B-Line Express in the Washington, D.C. metro area. Sam is Advanced ColdFusion 5.0 Certified and a Team Macromedia volunteer for ColdFusion. He contributes to professional journals on programming topics, including ColdFusion and Visual Basic and speaks at ColdFusion user group meetings. He can be contacted at [e-mail].

Mary Rich (technical editor). Once upon a time, when dinosaurs still roamed the earth, Mary Rich was working claims for an insurance agency. One day, she saw an ad in the newspaper for programmer trainees, so she made the switch, found out what programmers did, and fell in love. The affair continued through mainframes and mid-range systems and peaked when the first IBM-PCs arrived: a real computer, with 64K memory, two 320K floppy disk drives, a CPM emulation card, and a monitor — all of this on a desk at home! More toys followed, and she finally got involved with various graphics programs, then Web sites. A believer in Macromedia products, she found Dreamweaver and Fireworks to be an answer to a prayer for productivity. Mary provides consulting and training in many different areas to organizations in the Los Angeles, CA, and, via the Internet, to the world. She has a B.A. from Brown University and is pursuing a certificate in Computer Graphics from University of California, Los Angeles. Mary's cat, Friday, allows her to live with him in El Segundo, CA.

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