Here is our "Parliament" of Experts

Ric Arnold (Melbourne, Australia)

Having spent many years fixing electronic devices for various organizations (Australian Air Force, Strand Lighting, Graphtec) Ric discovered the web in 1995. With 10 years of desktop publishing & computer graphics equipment experience, the web soon became a passion. Ric discovered NO Fusion while it was still in beta testing for version 1 and became part of the testing team. Since then Ric has helped test all major releases of Fusion, and has been a regular in the NO newsgroups. Ric went solo in November 1999 to startup a small local web development business. An early contributor to CCC as a columnist, Ric became a permanent part of the CCC support team in February 2000.

David Hague (Busselton, Australia)

David has been involved in the IT industry since 1979 and is now the Managing Director of Shazian Enterprises - a highly successful Internet development company with clients such as The NSW Board of Studies, The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Organisation, Australian Native Landscapes and many more. David has experience in sales, marketing, distribution and training having held management positions with Tandy Electronics, IBM, NEC and Olivetti. David has written for all of the major publications in Australia including PCWorld, MacWorld, PCUser, PCWeek, Australian Personal Computer, Digital Media World, and PC Magazine. He also wrote and directed video training tapes on Windows 95, plus a 24 tape series on Microsoft Word, Access, Powerpoint and Excel that were bundled with Office 95 Australia. David is well known in the Fusion community for writing the 800+ page tome "NetObjects Fusion Bible" for version 3.0. David lives with his wife Sharon and dog VB on Sydney's Northern Beaches.

Charlie Haywood (Tennessee, United States)

Charlie is a freelance web designer and graphics artist who began working with computers more than 16 years ago. That's when the TI 99-4A was a great computer! Web design became a passion, and NOF "THE TOOL". In 2000 he beta tested, consulted and provided content for Adobe's LiveMotion software. Later illustrating for and designing web templates for Dan Gray's LiveMotion Design f/x book. In his spare time he builds NO tutorials, surfs the NO Newsgroups and "Doodles". (Doodles Site: http://user.icx.net/~chaywood/IS2/ )

The KROW (Moscow, United States)

The KROW has been in the Internet industry for over 10 years, has worked with NOF since 2.0, and is owner and Head Site Producer for KROW Webbing (www.TheKrow.com). The KROW is also a certified teacher for the world's largest online community. Academic subjects that The KROW specializes in teaching (college and adult-level)include: Web Programming & Publishing, Graphic Arts, Alternative Medicine, and MetaPhysics. Always on the cutting edge of the web, The KROW is known for thinking "outside the box", and is never at a loss for words. Once, when asked, "Don't you ever stop thinking, and just veg?", The KROW responded, "Umm. Nope!"

Werner Lehl (Karlsruhe, Germany)

Werner is the IT-Director at one of the largest trading companies in the world. He has been working with NOF for over four years, since version 2. He has also worked with Team Fusion (NAS2000) and tested Collage. Werner has been a member of the CCC from the very start. Currently working on Intranet (more than 4,000 pages done), Extranet- and Internet-Projects (another few thousand pages).

David Lewis (Hammonds Plains, Canada)

David owns and operates a nine-year-old, one-man, electronic publishing company, taybridge.communications (http://www.taybridge.com) that provides a broad range of online services. He is currently under contract with an online learning/training company as VP of Business Development. Prior to starting his own business, David did several tours in the retail sales sector in areas ranging from food services to sporting goods.

Simon Lister (Gunnedah, Australia)

Simon is the owner of Koala Internet Services, a Web Design and Internet Consultancy company based in Gunnedah, about 500 km north west of Sydney, Australia. Simon has been involved with the computer industry since 1980, and claims to know the meaning of terms such as "CP/M", "WordStar" and "SuperCalc". :) He has been a NetObjects Fusion user since Version 1.0, and a member of "Team NetObjects" since its inception. Simon has been involved with a number of projects for NetObjects, including "GoBizGo" and Technical Support, as well as a beta tester for several Fusion releases and Coolmaps components.

Petra Palzer (Karlsruhe, Germany)

Petra runs the #1 NOF-Support Forum in Germany with more than 400,000 visitors per year (and up to 12,000 page views per day). She has a virtual team of 13 supporters helping to answer all questions. They also do support via mail and phone. Furthermore she runs the largest NOF-page with hundreds of tips & tricks in the German language. Last but not least she creates websites for a huge number of customers.

Peter Sklar (Santa Barbara, United States)

Peter is the founder and chairman of coolmaps.com. He has been involved with computers since the 5th grade. Peter began his Internet career in 1995 when he created one of the very first database driven real estate websites. He began using NetObjects Fusion with version 2.01 (that's when the component API came out). Peter has received three US Patents on organization of information for search and discovery.