Name: Angela Allen
Web Address: http://www.angelaallen.com

Why did you get on the web?
I was kind of a slow starter; it took about a year, but I succumbed to a complete obsession with it after trying to find something better than the local bulletin boards in the Fall of 1994. I didn't start from the graphic side, but rather the programming side, after I finished exploring the wild territory! I got my first domain in early '97 and never looked back.

What services do you offer? I work for a non-profit healthcare I/S, and I'm also able to work for small businesses & individuals in the community with their website needs. Where I'm strictly graphics (Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Painter, etc.), for the most part, at work, as a freelancing webdesigner/developer I'm able to help them with all of their needs, from flanking out the whole site, to sweetening the graphics and incorporating the programming they need (feedback, javascript, etc.). I have been able to find just about every programming piece I need on the web and almost always for free. Mainly, I visit Matthew Wright's site for cgi & perl: www.worldwidemart.com/scripts, and Dynamic Drive for javascript: www.dynamicdrive.com.

Increasingly, I have been using NetObjects Fusion to flank out the site initially, and then when I'm happy with the outcome, I visit it from within Dreamweaver 2.0 to add customizing items. I'm looking forward to increasing my fluency with NOF.

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What you like most about the web?
It always teaches me something!

What you like least about the web?
I think the domain-issuing organization should be administered by a corporation (which should go/should have gone public!), not a governmental agency; and I'd also like to see an accounting of where all the money's gone that's been spent on domain name registration and renewal! Okay, I'm off my soapbox now.

What for you is the most useful web technology?
Online Learning sites. They're worth their weight in gold. My favorites are Useractive and ZDU.com.

Why do you use Fusion?
It's a complete turnkey way to incubate the whole website! Smart, versatile, packed with options, components, templates and sitestyles. I want to learn to do much more with it! I'm drafting a new version of the BenandJim.com site at BenandJim that I used NOF to create and Photoshop & Imageready to customize. Also used Dreamweaver to tuck things in to where I want them to be.

Your five favorite web sites?
Drudgereport.com, Coolmaps, Ozones.com, Lileks.com, and of course WindowShopper.com (due for a redesign!)

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Do you think the web will change the world?
The web is like a deep-tissue, full-body radio experience. It's one person "listening," perceiving all on their own, and they have as much choice about where to go next with their "tuner" - the web plays to 'one' person.

Just like radio is heard by 'one' person and television is viewed by 'one' person - it's the factor of that one person being able to 'broadcast back' that makes the reverberating difference between radio and web. Every person, in fact, can have their own "radio station." It's highly inclusive and the biggest frontier by far, so far.

What do you do for fun?
I juggle! I've been working my way up to the clubs for years. So far, for the past 8 years, it's just been balls. I also go to school 3/4 time. I like to read, and something I haven't been able to do for some time is get back into theater. I love plays and group improvisation. Acting is a true blast. I would have to say Improv is my biggest love, though.

I really like the NetObjects Fusion support team. It's worldwide and I first noticed it last Spring when I signed up for a membership; I had some questions and they were answered post-haste! One gentleman in Australia with Magic Pixel was extremely helpful - it's one of the great things about NOF. Now, I just need to buy some time to sit down with it!

Thanks Angela.

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