The Xara Xone Channel on YouTube is Now Open

[Barbara B]

The Xara Xone Channel on YouTube has launched.

Gary has designed a custom theme and avatar for the XaraXone channel, that I thought you all might be interested in looking at. Some of you have already found it; Angelize even subscribed!

I however, would never in a million years suggest that you all run right over there and subscribe to the XaraXone Channel so Angelize and Gary don't look so lonely there in the Subscribers box. Really. Of course I couldn't stop you. And you might want to....

Ummm -- I did mention that The Xara Xone Channel on YouTube has launched. Didn't I?

[Gare]

[angelize]

I like the custom theme of the Channel. All of the the new Xara Xone stuff has brought a certain energy to TG!

[Gare]

All of the the new Xara Xone stuff has brought a certain energy to TG!

We're really happy that this is the overall effect, and Xaraists have a new place to roost online with the addition of this area on tg.

It might be seen as "slick", but all we're trying to do with all the design stuff, most of which is done in Xara DP7, is "brand" our favorite drawing program, just like Adobe has successfully done with their products...just without the budget or the attitude .



—Gary

[Big Frank]

It's looking gooooooooooooood

[wizard509]

I hate to tell you but I tried to subscribe and couldn't, my user name already in use, tried a slight alteration but that was taken also. So...I just bookmarked the channel and will have to access it that way.
I suppose I could use a completely different screen name but then I wouldn't be identified with TG.

[Gare]

Hi wizard—

The point of subscribing is not to "show your colors", so to speak. Actually, I'd be very happy if several non TalkGraphics members subscribed to the xaraxone channel on YouTube.

Subscribing to the XaraXone channel on YouTube does exactly this:

1. It lets subscribers know when a new video is posted. Which is neither here nor there for most of us, because a new tutorial will be posted every month, you know where xaraxone.com is, and The Outsider I think will let registered users know.

2. More importantly? It looks good to have a lot of subscribers. YouTube is owned by Google, and I have to believe that if/when we get a lot of subscribers, this event is logged and entered in some way or another in Google's search engine.

So it's easy to find when someone conducts a search, they like what they see, they seriously consider buying product.

It's how we help keep the Good Ship Xara afloat, indirectly, but points count, you know?

My Best,

—Gary

[angelize]

Like I said before I like the way the channel looks, maybe this might be better in the suggestion box thread but perhaps creating a custom Youtube channel using Xara might make a good subject for a tutorial.

[Gare]

Let me consider this one, Frances. It took far more steps online to "create" the finished channel than it did to create the elements in Xara for the "look".

I can say right now: the templates you might find online for making a channel's UI don't work, not even close.

—g

[angelize]

which is why,when I did my own channel I used the new streamlined set up, but it IMO is too streamlined. The new channels all look exactly the same there isn't enough customization.