Track Record

Corel LINUX Community — community resource for Corel LINUX OS users, 2000

linux.corel.com was Corel Corporation®’s community resource for users of Corel® LINUX OS — news, tutorials, product detail pages, user-contributed input, and training updates, gathered behind Tux as the mascot. I worked on the team that produced it, in a web-quality-assurance role across the site’s content cadence.

Screenshot of linux.corel.com from March 2, 2000 — the Corel LINUX community site with the Tux mascot, community navigation, download CTA, and February 2000 community news including the Corel LINUX Roadshow.
linux.corel.com — Internet Archive Wayback Machine, March 2, 2000.

The work

QA contributor on the Corel LINUX Community site, alongside the editorial and design team that produced the news, tutorial, and download content. The toolchain mirrored the rest of the Corel web estate: Corel XaRa, WordPerfect® Office 2000, CorelDRAW® 9 and 10, and a handful of period helper applications.

Tux mascot, community cadence, and content pipeline were the team’s. The credit is shared.

Other Corel-era properties

Same web team, same period: the corel.com homepage, the CorelCity.com portal, and the Corel Store at buy.corel.com. The discipline of community-resource work — earnest content held to the cadence that QA actually keeps — still maps to my website-design and development practice today.

Screenshot of linux.corel.com from March 2, 2000 — the Corel LINUX community site with the Tux mascot, community navigation, download CTA, and February 2000 community news including the Corel LINUX Roadshow.

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