Corel’s flagship creative community site — a single-word .com Corel held outright, with a monthly content cycle for CorelDRAW users.
Designer.com was where Corel’s CorelDRAW, Corel Painter, and Corel R.A.V.E. users came for tutorials, freebies, tips, and training news. The site ran on a monthly update cycle and sat at the top of the Corel community property network, with tab navigation connecting to OfficeCommunity.com, CorelCity.com, and the Linux community. It was live from at least April 2000.
What I contributed
As Senior Web Developer on the Corel web team alongside David McGregor (Web Designer), I produced web graphics in Corel XARA and CorelDRAW 9 & 10, ran QA on the monthly refreshes, and published to the shared CMS. Monthly deliveries included feature articles (Bryce tutorials, CorelDRAW 10 walkthroughs, Corel R.A.V.E. animation guides) and free resource downloads — brushes, spray lists, templates, and clipart packs. A running Tips & Tricks series covered every major product in the Corel design suite.
Stack and context
HTML 4, JavaScript image preloading, Corel XARA, CorelDRAW 9 & 10, WordPerfect Office 2000. Wayback Machine captures confirm the site live from at least April 2000 through late 2001.
Work completed as Senior Web Developer, Corel Corporation, 2000–2001. Portfolio entry at rodonic.com archived by Wayback Machine, October 2001.
