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.

**Big Frank** · 28 July 2010, 08:43 PM

Hehehe, I first got it a little while before they joined up with Corel and I remember that I was mightily disappointed, not with the product but with the Corel marriage. Things got better after than

**BONES** · 29 July 2010, 12:22 AM

I first read about it in Computer Arts, in around 1999 I suppose, and bought v2.0 as a result of their glowing review. For a while it was their no. 1 recommended vector drawing application, until the next version, which they gave to a different person to review and he clearly didn't get it.

**JaffDave** · 29 July 2010, 03:39 AM

Yes i must admit I went down the Coral road due to the industry I was working in and the business standards I had to adhere to.

**highfrontier** · 29 July 2010, 08:57 AM

Yep, XaraStudio in 1996 I think - A friend of mine (with money) had previoously bought an Acorn RiscPC with Artworks - and I'd been dreaming of having something similar ever since.
Didn't touch it for 10 years since joining the world of work, but that's another story