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Jay Kellett

Ben Forta is Macromedia, Inc.'s Senior Product Evangelist and has almost 20 years of experience in the computer industry in product development, support, training, and product marketing. Ben is the author of the best-selling ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit (now in its fourth edition), as well as books on SQL, JavaServer Pages, Macromedia HomeSite, Macromedia Spectra, WAP, Windows 2000, and more. Ben coauthored the official ColdFusion training courses, writes regular columns on ColdFusion and Internet development, and now spends a considerable amount of time lecturing and speaking on Internet-related technologies. Born in London, England and educated in London, New York, and Los Angeles, Ben now lives in Oak Park, Michigan with his wife, Marcy, and their six children. Ben welcomes your e-mail at ben@forta.com and invites you to visit his Web site at http://www.forta.com/

Robert Crooks is the Technical Lead for Macromedia Educational Services and coauthor of the Macromedia authorized training courses Fast Track to Dreamweaver and Advanced Dreamweaver Techniques. He also contributed to the Macromedia Dreamweaver 4 Certified Developer Exam. He has been an active user of Dreamweaver since version 1.

Sue Hove is Macromedia, Inc.'s Director of Instructor Readiness for its Education Services department. She has more than 15 years of experience in the computer industry in application design and programming, relational databases, training, and course development. She has applied her applications development and training expertise for software vendors such as Informix, Powersoft/Sybase, and Allaire/Macromedia. For the past five years, she has been shaping Macromedia's curriculum by writing and delivering its training course offerings and certifying other instructors to teach Macromedia's courses worldwide. She coauthored Macromedia's Fast Track to Dreamweaver and Advanced Dreamweaver Techniques courses along with two other authors. Sue now lives in Holmes, Pennsylvania and welcomes your e-mail at sue@hove.com

Jay Kellett is the principal of Blue Box Software (http://www.blueboxsw.com), which specializes in business-education solutions. He coauthored the official Macromedia Dreamweaver training courses and teaches a variety of technology courses. Since graduating with a Masters of Science in Instructional Technology from Bloomsburg University in 1994, he has completed projects for a variety of large and small companies, including PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Merck, and the FDIC.