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Writing and Editorial Talent Navigates Readers Through Communications Gridlock — Technology Publishers Rely on hesketh.com Expertise

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Raleigh, NC - 15 June 2001 — The average American is bombarded with 3000 messages a day. So why is it that so many of us often have difficulty locating useful information? We need talented writers and editors to get us through this communications gridlock!

Enter hesketh.com's CTO Steven Champeon and visual designer/producer Rick Cecil, both in high demand in the world of technical writing and editing.

Steven Champeon, serving as technical and development editor, has two new volumes on his bookshelf: Jeffrey Zeldman's Taking Your Talent to the Web: A Guide for the Transitioning Designer (New Riders) and Jeffrey Veen's The Art and Science of Web Design (New Riders).

Past credits include tech editing on XML, XHTML, and other Web-related topics for Hungry Minds (formerly IDG), MIS:Press, and O'Reilly and Associates and also: Simon St. Laurent's XHTML: Migrating Applications toward XML and XML: A Primer, Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville's Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, and Elliotte Rusty Harold's XML: Extensible Markup Language.

Champeon is also a gifted writer. In November 2001, his much-anticipated DHTML Bible (Hungry Minds/IDG), co-authored with Eric Costello and Scott Andrew LePera, will hit bookstores. (Champeon is lead author.)

He says, "The browser vendors, large and small, have embraced standards, such as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM), which opens the playing field up for wider distribution of applications, reduced development and testing costs, and a variety of new, exciting and far more powerful Web-based applications."

Champeon authored an earlier work on Web applications that can be found on every serious Web designer's desk, Building Dynamic HTML GUIs, also published by Hungry Minds/IDG.

He will be featured in Design for Community, a soon-to-be-published book by Derek Powazek, on the use of email and mailing lists to form strong online communities.

But Champeon isn't the only sought-after expert at hesketh.com. Visual Designer and Producer Rick Cecil has recently accepted an offer to tech edit Designing SVG Web Graphics by Andrew Watt (New Riders), slated for publication in 2002.

"I look forward to this opportunity because I have been excited about SVG [scalable vector graphics] since it was first recommended by W3C," says Cecil. "As an open-source language, SVG is going to bring a number of new possibilities to the Web by giving developers the ability to add their own dynamic, interactive logic."

Cecil has written for The Business Leader and Digital Web Magazine, addressing topics such as interaction design, visual design, and managing creative people.

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