Ledet and Associates Announces Hands-On Training for Macromedia Drumbeat 2000 with Stuart Harris.

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ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 12, 2000

Well known Internet expert Stuart Harris, co-author of Drumbeat 2000 for Dummies, and the Macromedia Drumbeat 2000 User's Guide, is now teaching hands-on training classes for Drumbeat 2000 in Atlanta and Chicago.

"Macromedia is excited by the opportunity Ledet and Associates is bringing to our community of web professionals," said Tom Hale, vice president of product marketing at Macromedia. "Stuart Harris is an accomplished author and Internet expert who can lend his Drumbeat expertise to developers seeking to build and deploy serious e-commerce applications quickly."

Macromedia Drumbeat 2000 is the fastest way to build Web applications-powered by Active Server Pages (ASP). Drumbeat 2000 includes everything you need to develop online stores-complete with shopping cart and credit card transactions-that scale to support thousands of products, and are simple to maintain.

This is a "must-have" class for those who are serious about improving their web design and e-commerce skills using Drumbeat 2000. Familiarity with the application is not a prerequisite, but attendees should have basic Internet skills. The majority of students are not from the geographic locale of the classes but fly in from out-of-state or from other countries. Each student is assigned a fully equipped Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows NT workstation.

Dates:

-- Atlanta, GA - January 24-25
-- Chicago, IL - February 17-18
-- Atlanta, GA - March 1-2
-- Chicago, IL - April 6-7
-- New Orleans, LA - May 3-4
-- Atlanta, GA - June 15-16

Registration/Cost

Classes typically fill four to six weeks in advance and are limited to 8 students. Each student receives a copy of Stuart's book, Drumbeat 2000 for Dummies. The cost for this class is $995 per student. Register by calling 770-414-5007 or visiting the Ledet & Associates web site at http://www.ledet.com

About Stuart Harris

Since 1988 Stuart has devoted himself to media applications for computers, and designed a successful magazine production model for R.R. Donnelly Corp. More recently he has co-authored five books on Internet topics: "Netscape Quick Tour" (for Windows and Mac), "HTML Publishing with Internet Assistant," "HTML Publishing for Netscape," "Dynamic HTML," and "Drumbeat For Dummies." He also wrote chapters for the Drumbeat Users' Manual and most of the on-screen help text for Drumbeat 2000.

Sterling Ledet and Associates, Inc. is a Macromedia Authorized Training Center.