CorelDRAW.com continues to grow at a steady rate. Looking back, it took just under a year for the first 10,000 members to sign-up to this community. Well, the next 10,000 members signed-up in less than 8 months! Thank you all for making CorelDRAW.com such a great place to share and learn. And from a Corel perspective, this site has been a fantastic place, helping us better understand your needs and making sure we are able to focus on what matters. Quite a few of the Corel employees who work on the CorelDRAW family of products are in here on a regular basis. Not only do we learn a lot about you and how you use the products, but the information on this site is also used to prioritize things to do in service packs (SP2 for CorelDRAW X4 should be available in the next two weeks by the way) and helps us better understand where future versions need to focus on.

With the upgrade to the CorelDRAW.com site earlier this week, we added a lot of new features such as a brand new wiki engine, greatly enhanced galleries and forums, as well as brand new friends and conversations tools. We've also increased the number of gallery items and space you have to showcase / share your work. And it looks like you are already posting entries in the various wikis at a very impressive rate. I can't wait to see where it can go.

And now for a few statistics:

• Since launch, members made more that 31,000 forum posts in almost 25,000 threads. 
• There are currently 190 media galleries with 2330 images / files in those. 
• Looking back at 2008, CorelDRAW.com had more that 1.2 million unique visitors, coming from over 220 countries around the world. 
• 61% of the visitors to the site used Internet Explorer in 2008 (out of which 37% still used IE6... please, please, upgrade your browser), just under 30% used Firefox and the rest is broken down between every other browser.
• For the curious, Chrome is at under 1%, and 0.04% came to CorelDRAW.com from their iPhone / iPod Touch in 2008.
  

Looking forward, one thing that is on the list for CorelDRAW.com is the localization of the site in a few languages, so that you will be able to navigate this site in a much easier way if you are not a native English speaker / reader. There are other things we are looking at and I will keep you up-to-date on the progress in the future.

Thank you very much to all of you for making CorelDRAW.com such a fantastic resource for everyone and for making it such a friendly and enjoyable place to spend time on. 

A very happy new year to all of you!

Gérard