Before you begin, have you emailed the About.com application team ( apply@about.com ) to make sure your topic is available? DO NOT fill out this application unless you have received a topic available email from the apply team!

On a regular basis you'll create a feature page on your web site focusing on a topic of your choice within your interest niche.

The feature is a creative space: you're free (within reason, of course) to use your imagination. Ideally, you'll be providing useful, timely information on a topic within your niche and including links to interesting pages inside other relevant web sites.

Replace the text in this section with the text of your sample feature. Be sure to include links in your text.

• Each week you will give viewers a sampling of web pages that are timely, fresh, and relevant to your interest niche.
• Each link will supply the name of the page and a sentence or two of description -- explain what the page is, and why it's of interest to the user.
• Select and replace these instructions with your sample annotated links.

Your site will include a biography explaining who you are and listing your credentials.

Begin your biography with a 1-2 sentence greeting and an introduction. Continue with 2-3 sentences that convey your experience, skills, education and credentials relevant to your niche, and describe why you are uniquely qualified to be the guide for this site.

Finish your biography by outlining what you intend to do with your site. In this section please provide us with five subjects you intend to focus on in future weekly features. Tell your viewers what they can expect, why they should come back, and what you'd like to hear from them.

Select and replace these instructions with your biography.

Thank you for sending us your template! To process your application, we require the following information:

Name: Dr. Peter Pflaum
Site Topic: Basic PC Language and Methods
Your email Address: wiredbrain@earthlink.net
Your Postal Address:P.O. Box 2176, New Smyrna Beach FL 32170-2176
Your Operating System: Windows 98.
Your HTML Editor: Netscape
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