How we used to design a web sites.

**JaffDave** · 28 July 2010, 04:47 AM

Feeling a little old here but I remember when the Xara web site looked like this. Anyone else been around here for this long?

This was a screen grab from 1996.

**Scotty** · 28 July 2010, 05:00 AM

Me I guess since I have CorelXara 1 and a few before Corel got hold of it.
JimM

**bcire68** · 28 July 2010, 08:21 AM

Not I. I started using X3D (version 2 or 3 I think it was back then) in 1998 or thereabouts. It was probably a year later that I purchased Xara Webster (the lite version of Xara's drawing program) just because I wanted to import shapes into X3D. It is hard to tell from the registered products page on Xara's website because the dates are messed up (it says I registered Webster in 2008) After I bought Webster I had the bug and bought Xara X and have purchased every version since.

Eric

**juergen** · 28 July 2010, 08:57 AM

<<Anyone else been around here for this long?>>
Very long, look at my join date.

If you want to look at all the former xara.com looks, just visit http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://xara.com

Juergen

**pauland** · 28 July 2010, 09:35 AM

I remember buying Xara Studio 1.0 from a Xara stand at the Computer Arts exhibition in Islington, London.

It was amazing.

**amoore** · 28 July 2010, 04:11 PM

I first got it from Corel a few months after they started marketing CorelXara.

**DavidDB** · 29 July 2010, 12:38 PM

I saw Studio doing a demo of the Notorious "Snowbarn.cdr" which took an age to render in Corel

Xara was rendering it about 100 times faster at the Olympia Windows Show

I insisted Charles took me behind the scenes to prove to me there was no Video trickery going on lol

I rang Corel in Canada and said You Got to come over and see this - its amazing.

The Corel crew showed up at the next public showing and I will forever remember their faces, shortly afterwards Corel Xara deal was announced and I thought I had brought together an amazing partnership.

In retrospect I guess it actually slowed things down and Corel only seemed to want to bury rather than expand the Xara user base.

Its great to see Xara doing so well all these years later and Corel finally dropped off my must upgrade annually list.

Onwards and upwards Xara!

**pauland** · 29 July 2010, 12:42 PM

Originally Posted by DavidDB

I rang Corel in Canada and said You Got to come over and see this - its amazing.

So YOU are responsible for that "partnership" that all but stifled Xara.

I would have kept that quiet, myself.. ;-)

**Scrimshaw** · 02 August 2010, 02:45 PM

Originally Posted by DavidDB

I saw Studio doing a demo of the Notorious "Snowbarn.cdr" which took an age to render in Corel

Xara was rendering it about 100 times faster at the Olympia Windows Show

Yup, I was there as well and I can well remember the snowbarn.cdr trick! As I recall that was on a 486 DX2 machine as well - I pre-ordered the CD that day, much to the amusement of my 'non-graphics' colleagues who went to the show with me.

Do you remember the demo of the green apple with the water drops?