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Bill Schongar and Paul Lagasse are the Senior Multimedia Developers at LCD Multimedia Creations, Inc., in Nashua, NH (bills@lcdmultimedia.com and paull@lcdmultimedia.com). Paul is an experienced Visual Basic programmer, with a design background that he's having fun putting to use in a variety of online endeavors. Bill somehow ended up in the computer industry, learning and teaching things about the online world, and contributing to other books such as CGI Programming Unleashed. Just don't ask Paul to recommend any movies, or Bill to show you how to juggle axes.
Evangelos Petroutsos has a M.S. degree in Computer Engineering and works as a freelance writer and consultant. He is the author of Interactive Web Publishing with Microsoft Tools and co-author of Visual Basic Power Toolkit.
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