A great point made by Jay Nelson regarding buying a QuarkXPress 7 upgrade now.
In summary, if you buy QuarkXPress 7 now, Quark have promised you can have QuarkXPress 8 ‘for free’ when it launches, probably in August 2008 by the sound of the press releases.
Why is this useful? Because if you don’t, and at some point buy QXP8, you will not be able to save down from QXP8 to QXP6 for example. QuarkXPress versions only save up and down one level.
Good point, well made!
Interesting attempt by Quark at a community site: ilovedesign.com
It massively misses the mark from a digital marketing perspective. It’s too obviously and painfully salesy, rather than building on the community aspect first. Designers are a tight-knit community. Unless they’re already rabidly pro-Quark, this will just naff them off.
Clean design though, and the portfolio will be great once it has a few more uploaders.
What is scary is David Carson’s desktop. Good grief, if that’s true, I bet he doesn’t have a clear desk policy.
I won’t make any jokes about a $ being worth tuppence because, even so, $25k of tuppences is worth a whole heap.
X-Ray magazine is running a free-to-enter giveaway for oodles of creative goodies. Well, free apart from surrendering your precious email address and the usual marketing grab for personal information but that’s because there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Not least, you can win a copy of our software LinkUP Pricing. This is our company blog! Impressively also up for grabs; a copy of QuarkXPress 7, the Canadian edition of QXP 7 (eh?!), the Latin American edition, QXP Passport and some upstart called Adobe Creative Suite.
With all this, you could start your own Design Company. If you happen to be a trained Designer.
In case you missed it, Quark has launched a new microsite: Quark Labs.
Interesting that the homepage is mostly made up of a huge set of legal terms and conditions. I suppose they have to cover themselves but, hey, there’s no need to ram it down our throats.
You can also download a free version of Shadowcaster, previously owned by A Lowly Apprentice (ALAP), recently bought out by Quark.
They seem to be after some free market research and QA testing but that is all to the general good. There is a forum for you to comment on their latest new bells and whistles. And I shall certainly be downloading all the freebies and see what they do.
It also mentions “you can also gain access to limited editions of earlier software releases”, which would be mega-useful, I just can’t find where…
