CorelDRAW.com announcements

Scheduled maintenance on May 22, 2011

CorelDRAW.com administrator — Wed, 18 May 2011 19:39:00 GMT

CorelDRAW.com will be unavailable for a few hours in the morning of Sunday May 22, 2011 (EST) for scheduled maintenance. While there will not be any changes to the site when the community comes back, this maintenance will enable us to continue to grow going forward.

The CorelDRAW.com team

Problem with our email server has been resolved

CorelDRAW.com administrator — Wed, 18 May 2011 19:36:00 GMT

We have experience some problems with the email server that is sending out the automated messages from the community over the last few days. The problem should now be resolved and everyone who has created an account in the last 3-4 days should now have receieved their login / password to access the community. If you have not received your automated email with your temporary password, please contact the CorelDRAW.com administrators at coreldrawcommunity (at) corel (dot) com.

Scheduled maintenance on April 16, 2011

CorelDRAW.com administrator — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:23:00 GMT

CorelDRAW.com will be unavailable for a few hours on Saturday April 16, 2011 for scheduled maintenance. While there will not be any changes to the site when the community comes back, this maintenance will enable us to continue to grow going forward.

The CorelDRAW.com team

Secure login for CorelDRAW.com

CorelDRAW.com administrator — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:17:00 GMT

Part of the update that went live a little earlier today, we added support for https to CorelDRAW.com, e.g. you can now access the community in an encrypted and secure way. Going forward, every time you have to enter your password on CorelDRAW.com, you will go through the secure pages automatically, which means your password will not be transmitted in clear text over the internet. In addition, for those who want to secure everything, you will be able to access the community at https://CorelDRAW.com instead of the traditional http://CorelDRAW.com.

If you experience any problem with the community since the update that happened earlier today (or otherwise), feel free to contact the administrators directly. And as always, for product related questions, please post them in the forums or contact the Corel technical support team at http://corel.com

The CorelDRAW Administrators.

CorelDRAW.com maintenance scheduled for Monday January 24, 2011

CorelDRAW.com administrator — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:12:00 GMT

We are planning to do some maintenance on the CorelDRAW.com community on Monday January 24, 2011. The community will be unavailable for a little while starting 3 PM Eastern time (20.00 UTC). This maintenance will not introduce new features to the community, but will provide some background technology for us to do a few things going forward.

Corel CONNECT forum added

CorelDRAW.com administrator — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:10:00 GMT

We just added a dedicated Corel CONNECT forum to discuss about all things related to the newest application included in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5.

Quick update about the last few days

CorelDRAW.com administrator — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:15:00 GMT

Hello all,

we are sorry for the small availability problems we have experiences in the last few days. We are hard at work to correct the related problem and make sure that the community remains available for all of you to share and communicate.

The CorelDRAW.com team

Community back online

CorelDRAW.com administrator — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:32:00 GMT

Earlier today, we experiences some problems with the CorelDRAW.com community. The site is now back online and everything should be working fine again.

As a side note, we noticed that some of you might not have received their automated password when creating their account the last few days of 2009. If that's the case, please re-create your account.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

The CorelDRAW.com team

Update completed

CorelDRAW.com administrator — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:51:00 GMT

The CorelDRAW.com scheduled update has been completed. The most visible change to the community is the possibility to share links to blogs, forum posts, gallery images and wiki entries with your friends on various social networks such as facebook, twitter or digg.

If you notice anything, please let us know.

The CorelDRAW.com admin team.

Scheduled maintenance of the community

CorelDRAW.com administrator — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:17:00 GMT

Tuesday July 14, 2009, between 1 and 2 PM Eastern time, CorelDRAW.com will undergo some scheduled maintenance. The community might be unavailable for a few minutes during that time.

The CorelDRAW.com admin team

Maintenance of CorelDRAW.com has been completed

CorelDRAW.com administrator — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A quick follow-up note to my previous post to let you know that the move and maintenance of CorelDRAW.com has been completed and that everything is working fine. We will continue to monitor closely the community to make sure everything is working smoothly. If you have any problem, please feel free to contact us directly at coreldrawcommunity at corel com.

Update: There appears to be problems accessing the forums through NNTP from certain locations. We are working at getting this resolved shortly.

Update 2: The problems with the NNTP access have been resolved and everthing should be working fine.

CorelDRAW.com will be unavailable for maintenance on Thursday March 5th, 2009

CorelDRAW.com administrator — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:16:00 GMT

Hello all,

just wanted to let you know ahead of time that we will be conducting some maintenance work on all the Corel communities in the afternoon of Thursday March 5th, 2009 (EST time zone). We will be changing the hardware on which our communities are running to something more powerful with a faster Internet connection and the communities, including CorelDRAW.com will be unavailable during the transition (both through web and NNTP). At the same time, we will also resolve a problem we had with certain mails not being delivered, especially to AOL users.

Once on the new hardware, you should not see any difference except for those who connect through NNTP to the forums. After the upgrade of the servers, the CorelDRAW NNTP server will no longer require you to add the @coreldraw to your username to log in.

And while the CorelDRAW.com community is down, here is another link that you can use to make progress at the Balloon Racer game ;-)

The CorelDRAW.com administrators

CorelDRAW.com user guidelines

CorelDRAW.com administrator — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:13:00 GMT

As CorelDRAW.com continues to grow, we have published user guidelines that will clarify what is and what is not allowed on this site, what you need to know and do, how the moderators operate as well as other useful pieces of information.

Please take the time to read the CorelDRAW.com user guidelines.

Thank you for your participation on CorelDRAW.com

A few more things about the new CorelDRAW.com

CorelDRAW.com administrator — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:23:00 GMT

Now that the updated site has been up and running for the last few days and that everything has been transitionned successfully from the previous version of CorelDRAW.com, I wanted to add a few more comments regarding some of the hidden new features on CorelDRAW.com:

CorelDRAW.com now supports OpenID as a way to sign in. OpenID is an open standard for digital security, supported by many sites such as Yahoo!, AOL, Flickr and many other sites... this means that if you have an account with one of these sites, you might already have an OpenID account that will help you sign into CorelDRAW.com.
RSS feeds have been added to many different places. RSS is an open standard that enables you to syndicated the content that is created on CorelDRAW.com and be notified when something new is happening.
You can now add announcements on your profile. Think of it as something similar to the status updates on sites such as Facebook or Twitter, but with the extra flexibility to add more content attached to the subject line.
You can now customize your profile in a much more detailled way, and you can actually do rich-text editing for your signature for example. Please make sure to keep your signature short and don't link to large images in your signatures.
For those of you who have a blog and/or a gallery on CorelDRAW.com, you will be getting more statistics about the visitors to those. The site only started collecting the data on December 30, 2008, so please allow for a few days before these make any sense. And for those with a blog, check out the configuration option as it is now possible to link to your feedburner account and much more.
Blogs on CorelDRAW.com can also support publishing podcasts. Storage of the actual audio files is not possible on CorelDRAW (there are many other good file hosting services available), but if you want to have a podcast, you could manage the RSS feed from here.
In the wiki section, which is starting very strongly, you have the option to have pages and sub-pages... this should help categorize the various tips&tricks by product. Thank you for not putting all your message in the home folder of the wiki ;-)

I hope you will enjoy the new and enhanced CorelDRAW.com community and that it will continue to be a very useful place for all of you.

Happy new year!

Gérard

Attachements in forums

CorelDRAW.com administrator — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:09:00 GMT

We are in the process of fixing a problem related to displaying some attachments in the forums. No data has been lost, but there has been a little problem with the transfer to the new location with the upgrade yesterday. We expect everything to be solved by the end of the day.

Update (10:31 AM EST):The attachements in the most recent posts have been restored. We are now working at getting the older attachements back. I will post another message when everything is done.

Update 2 (Jan 2nd 2009): All the attachements in the posts have been restored and the upgrade of CorelDRAW.com is completed successfully.