Corel Corporation®’s public site in the late 1990s ran to roughly 30,000 pages spanning 20 product lines — about 1.7GB of HTML, image, and downloadable assets. I joined the team that produced it, helping conceive the user interface and producing graphics for specific event surfaces: corporate-strategy announcements, quarterly-reports collateral, and product-launch creative.
Archived capture (January 1999): view corel.com on the Wayback Machine. Period attribution: Rodonic Corporation portfolio entry, 2002 capture.
The work
The site was retired in September 2000 and replaced with a re-platformed corel.com. The toolchain was period-correct: Corel XaRa for vector graphics, WordPerfect® Office 2000 for documentation, Corel R.A.V.E. for animation, CorelDRAW® 9 and 10 for production art, with helper applications around them.
I was on the Corel web team — graphics layer, UI work, and a slice of the publishing pipeline. The credit is shared with everyone else who shipped the 30,000 pages alongside me.
Anything is possible with a creative and dedicated team.
From my original 1999 portfolio note on this work.
Other Corel-era properties
Same web team, same period: the Corel LINUX Community, the CorelCity.com portal, and the Corel Store at buy.corel.com. Same shape as my website-design and development practice today, scaled to the 1999 web’s tooling.
