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