I'm feelin' a little jazzed today, because I got an email telling me that's I'm still the CEO of The Xara Xone (although Magix might not know about it), and I'm embroiled in a domain name brouhaha right now.


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One of the layout problems I noticed is that there are "bad breaks" in the text, so that there is a lot of open and close quotes distracting from the message. Boy, these guys really want XARAXONE as a domain name, don't they? They tell us that our name here conflicts with their plans to register xaraxone.org.cn, xaraxone.ccn, xaraxone.asia..whew!...and probably xaraxone.xxx!

I see a bulleted list as a way to better organize this litany of domain names. Additionally, a nice design touch would be a handwritten signature from "Jim." Jim seems like a friendly and casual guy, no?

Anyhow, let's create a clean document that we're all chuffed about, and see if we can't give Jim some design ideas for the future websites. Me, I'd recommend beginning with Gotham, all fonts in the family, black text is always a good, forward-moving and powerful accent, and I think full justification will help eliminate some of the "rivers" in the text.

Let's go! Let's show how to design page layouts as the Pros do!

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My Best,

Gary