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    Default The Xara Xone: A do-main, or a don't-main!

    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

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    Default More poor font choices from Africa

    Oh, Gosh...here we go again with boring, boring Letter Gothic monospaced, when a much more elegant and authoritative Times New Roman and Full Justification would get these people's message across better:

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    I don't know why it takes 105K to embed a virus in a PDF, but geez, these people prey their own, don't they? Acknowledging poverty and then zapping the Poor?

    Maybe Comic Sans is more appropriate.

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    Gary

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    Default Re: More poor font choices from Africa

    OG RE: The Xara Xone, that was created by Arlin Bartch and Chris Dickman. I don't know if they ever copyrighted the name though.

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    Default Re: More poor font choices from Africa

    Quote Originally Posted by gwpriester View Post
    OG RE: The Xara Xone, that was created by Arlin Bartch and Chris Dickman. I don't know if they ever copyrighted the name though.
    Noted. However, today, registering a domain is 9/10th of the law. Anyone holding a domain that's a registered TM of someone else is just squatting. The example in post #22 is just from troll jerks who have done this to Kate and Barbara as well.

    It'd be interesting to see if Arlin of Chris would want to arm-wrestle with Magix over the name, though, huh? :)

    OoG-

 

 

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