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Vol. 3, No. 30

July 25, 1997

Welcome to the Tripod Insider. This week, the office gets a new toy, the lunchroom gets a face lift, and we welcome more employees (imagine that). Find out all about it after seeing what's new on the site.

Content And Services

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HOMEPAGE BUILDER NEWS

Ask and you shall receive. We keep improving the Tripod Homepage Builder with the help of member suggestions. In the past few weeks, we've upgraded the color picker for the QuickPage Builder and we've made it possible to upload multiple files at once. And now: subdirectories. Yes, now you can better organize the files in your Tripod directory. So keep using Tripod's Homepage Builder, and we'll keep making it better!

NEW ON SCREENLIFE

It's that time of the month, friends, foes and wannabes. Yes, it's time for another Rockstar font, from the Rockstar Font Project by Chank Diesel. Chank is out to get all cool Rockstars to give him samples of their handwriting for him to make into a fantabulous font. And this week, he has managed to finagle an alphabet from none other than Morphine. Yes, those three white guys from Boston who ooze soul like it was goin' outta style. You've never heard Chank gushing like this. He really, really likes this band (and he knows from bands). Come and get it, only at Web/Tech, where we're working to make your homepage a better place.

—Michelle Chihara, Screenlife Editor

NEW ON TRIPOD

This week's Money section is dedicated to helping you understand the high-stakes game of investing in IPOs. Sure, you've heard tales of the fabulous riches made by employees and investors when a company makes an Initial Public Offering of its stock — but if you think that anyone in the general public has a shot at riding that first-day gravy train, you may be in for a rude surprise.

Start out by testing your IPO IQ with our fun interactive quiz.

Then check out Ken Kurson's informative column on IPOs and the small investor to find out why Initial Public Offerings are not so public.

Finally, be sure to join the Money Matters conference on Investing in IPOs to exchange tips, questions, and insights with your fellow Tripod members.

—Randy Williams, Money Editor

In Tripod's Health/Sports section, you asked our "Ask the Doctor" doctors to advise you on some pesky issues of personal appearance (among other things), and they have. Dr. Bob tackles unsightly moles, chronic heartburn, and finding the right ob/gyn, while Dr. Migdow prescribes affordable self-help cures for allergies and hair loss. So if you'd like to be more presentable, check in with the doctors.

—Lori Tuckett, Health Editor

PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP

Why have a page when you can build a great site — complete with your own chat room, guestbook, 12 megs and more? Check out the full list, and start publishing today!

* 12 megs of disk space.
* Your own Personal Chat room.
* A Guestbook on your homepage for visitors to sign.
* Your online Answering Machine. Who needs the phone?
* A 20% discount on Tripod apparel.
* A Tripod E-Mail Forwarding address: [email protected]
* The Premium Membership Preview newsletter, providing sneak previews of Tripod features, free graphics, and more.
* A special Status Page — a one-stop shop for all of your Premium Membership needs.

All of this is available at the low rate of $18 for six months, with new services added regularly at no additional cost. Sign up now!

Tripod Insider

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Two words: pool table (read: time suck). That's right, the "powers that be" broke down and bought us kids a brand-spankin'-new pool table -- shark season officially opened last Friday. First a ping pong table, now this; it's amazing we get any work done these days.

Actually, we don't — which is why we keep bringing in new people, so the rest of us can keep right on shooting stick. Tripod's newest new guy is Jason Patrikios, who joins us as a designer for the ad group. The thing we liked about Jason was his ability to make a commitment; the guy's got 13 different tattoos, 4 pierced body parts, and 3 dogs — that's what I call commitment. Nicole Mancuso also joins the party as a Membership Assistant. Nicole used to be our travel agent, but we liked her so much, we asked her to come aboard. Now we don't have to leave town just to see her.

This week the office is really starting to take shape. In an outing that must have been something like "Tim Allen meets Martha Stewart," Bruce, Margaret, and Emma went furniture shopping for our barren lunch room and struck gold at a restaurant supply store. The result? The Tripod Diner is now open for business, complete with red vinyl booths, salt and pepper shakers, and old-time napkin dispensers. Tripod... you want fries with that?

Thanks for becoming a member of Tripod.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email me.
My mailbox is always open.

Tung T. Pham
Membership Director
[email protected]

This has been another issue of the Tripod Insider, the weekly newsletter on what's happening at Tripod.. Past issues of the Tripod Insider are also available.

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