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Andrew M. Phelps, a member of the Editorial Board of Web Developer's & Designer's Journal, is in the Information Technology Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY (http://andysgi.rit.edu/).

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Hello! I wanted to wait and formally greet you from the Macromedia MAX Conference in New Orleans. Some of you might know me from my writing at Director-Online, or from the Macromedia DevNet Center. Others are probably reading this and saying to themselves 'Hey... wait a minute... where...
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