Houston, we have a Lift-Off

The transfer has been done. Welcome to the January Edition of The Xara Xone:

Xara Xone-January

The DNS servers will take anywhere from minutes to a couple of hours to a day to percolate through the internet, but it's decidedly up now.

One you hit the pages, expect a very short delay while the page caches—Barbara did a lot of interesting stuff such as sending typefaces to visitors' machines so all text is editable on The Xone—but I think it's looking good, and here's a snapshot of Xara Mission Control at the castle moments before we uncorked the champagne.

Thanks, Dan, thanks Barbara, thanks Buzz and bring us back a moon rock—

—Gary

Attachment 86572

Hi Gary,
Sorry, but I've just tried accessing the new tutorial, but all i can see is the old site with no January tut.
Regards
Peter

You may have to refresh your browser because I can access the new site, no problem.

DNS server lag Peter. I still get the old site as well. I think it took a day before a new site was available when Xara changed servers from their location to MAGIX a few years ago.

Hi Xara Folkx—

It's up, trust me. Dan at Xara flipped the switch at 7:14am NY time here.

1.) Clear your cache.
2.) Please be patient. The Domain Name Servers on the net all take different times.

Barbara did turn Google on, so at least the searches, if not the DNS, should be going now.

What we all would appreciate though, is that when the site comes up for you, to post that it has, here, and make sure you tell us your geographic location if it's not in your user data.

That way, we can sort of track how the site's coming up, so I can write a book on meaningless statistics.

Oh, I see that one of the nine circles of hell just downloaded the video tutorial. A new user named "Virgil" ?

—g

Gary or anyone that can see the new site, would you post the IP Address your DNS server is providing?

Open a DOS Window (Command Window) and execute a ping command. See attached image. Disregard the colors shown as I cheated and used XDP7 and some transparent rectangles to color the text. ;)

I still get the old site IP Address. By using the new IP Address temporarily we can assist the DNS servers to find the new site and speed up the propagation.

As Bill says, tried all usual refreshing tricks but still getting old site. Be happy to access the site directly form the ip address, thus circumventing the DNS translation.

Regards
Peter

Great Look, Great First Issue, Thanks for continuing the Xara Xone!!
tim

Bill, Peter—

All I can offer at this point is a small apology for the wait—which I'm not responsible for, but I enjoy apologizing as a passtime—and ask that you be patient. We believe it will be worth the wait.

Bill, browsing a website via an IP address with provide the viewer with scores of broken links in our case, and I don't want the "experience" we've all worked a month to create to be dampened. Also, I'm new to my job, and really don't want to get into the topology of a server I don't even own.

Fair? CMA, for sure, but fair?

Thanks,

Gary

82.165.139.206