inter-media artist for peace ABOUT THE AUTHOR Marlene Lacey has been creating websites since the mid-nineties and has supported the use of computers in academic, administrational, corporate and private sectors since the mid-eighties. She follows web standards and employs a wide variety of development software and continues to explore new technical resources as they emerge. She has provided instruction for web authors and her company, Blue Grama Publications has hosted and managed a wide variety of websites integrating the virtual and real worlds as an inter-media publisher. Marlene has designed many templates for digital and print. She combines her work with her hobbies for she escapes computer work to take photographs, create handmade paper, sculptures and her other artistic pursuits. She has built a large library of images and authored, co-authored, published titles and websites. She thinks of herself as a babel fish, communicating tech details to general users and communicating user desires to tech ninjas. When she's not communicating to those people that pop up from her computer, she listens to many genres of music, especially Bluesy Rock.