You are probably aware of Xara Xtreme but have you downloaded new Xara Designer 6 Pro? All tutorials, Workbooks, and Guest Tutorials are done in Xara Designer Pro 6 or Xara Photo & Graphics Designer 6, so if you don’t have it, get it now. Click here to download your FREE trial version or to upgrade to Xara Xtreme Pro today! Xara Web Designer 6 New version is an easy-as-Xara way to create a professional  looking website. Web Designer 6 is based on Xara Xtreme and includes professionally  designed user customizable templates. It's easy to learn and fun too! Click here to see  a Special Edition Web Designer 6 Preview Edition Workbook.     • Xara Menu Maker Create professional graphical NavBars and DHTML menus in an instant with Xara Menu Maker - no technical or design skills required. (And Xara does all of the heavy lifting!)     • Xara Screenmaker 3D A 3D screensaver maker that's fast, fun and easy to use. Create animated 3D text or tumbling picture cube screensavers. (This application will make you a hero in your office or home. And it is embarrassingly inexpensive!)     • Xara 3D-6 Xara 3D is the Number 1 tool for creating stunning, professional-quality 3D web graphics. See why for yourself. You can use a 3D program and drive yourself nuts trying to figure out all that X Y and Z axis nonsense, or you can make your life easy (and fun) with Xara 3D. It’s up to you.     • Xara 3D Heading Maker Add this great interactive tool to your web site and let your visitors make 3D graphics online.     • Xara Online Web pages stand out with Xara Online's state-of-the-art web page add - ons. Choose graphics, text and photo effects, or advanced applications, all fully- customizable and on your site in minutes.     • BuyFonts.Com All designers need fonts - get yours for as little as $2 US. Question: Is life a contest to see how few fonts you can use? With low prices and high quality fonts that you get at BuyFonts.com, do you need to ask?   The Xara Xone Featured Art Gallery ©2010 Gary W. Priester, All rights reserved. All artwork presented is © of the author and may not be reproduced in any way without the express written permission of the author. THE XARA CONFERENCES | XARA.COM | XARA ONLINE | GRAPHICS.COM TOP SITES | CONTACT US WEBSITE CREATED WITH XARA WEB DESIGNER 6 ENTER GALLERY Derek Cooper Biography My name is Derek Cooper and by the time you read this I will be 58 years old. I live and work as a graphic artist in a fairly quiet corner of Birmingham on the edge of its Jewellery Quarter. 'Brum' is Britain's Second City, whatever that means, and it's a modern and dare I say it, vibrant city, now, and a good place to live and work. It was pretty much decimated during the WW2 and then further and more recently destroyed by the city planners of the 1960's. But now it's defiantly risen from the ashes. What else can I tell you? I'm married with three grown up children, one suddenly with children of his own, which makes me a Grandad! (though I still feel about 25—but only in my head). We have three dogs and a cat, a large Iguana and a few other things for which I blame my wife Ruth who has been a Veterinary Nurse for the last 40 years and brings her work home with her. We've never enough money for any of it, so we’re pretty much like everyone else there. I've been using Xara products since Xara Studio which was about 1996 and it caters for nearly all of my day-to-day needs. I draw with it, I paint with it and if I find something it can't do, I work around the problem with it. Usually to a reasonably successful conclusion. I do all this in a room of my house or at a table in the garden during the warm afternoon in July we call summer here in England. Apart from my bank account details I can't think of anything else to tell you, so thanks for reading. Derek (masque) Send e-mail   ©Derek Cooper