Product: Print Office 2000
Company: Corel, Inc.
Website: http://www.corel.com
Estimated Street Price: $49.99
Review By: Julien JAY

Corel Central 9

Corel Central 9 is a software inherited from Corel WordPerfect. This software is a personal information manager tool designed to help users manage their tasks, times and meetings. When you start it an auto-hide calendar view will appear at the right of your screen. Drag your mouse on the right border of the screen and you can view your current meetings/appointments and start your address book.

The address book will automatically import all of your windows or MAPI address books contacts. So you’re ready to use CorelCentral and you don’t have to recreate a new address book. If you’re a Palm user you’ll surely use the synchronization feature of Corel Central 9 to transfer to your Palm the appointments, addresses of the day!

Corel Central 9 Calendar (click to enlarge)

Corel WEB.DESIGNER 2

This software as its name indicates is aimed to help users creating web pages and websites easily. Traditional tools are offered and you can even preview your webpage into your default browser with a single mouse click. However unlike in FrontPage 2000, GoLive 5, etc. you can’t view the map of your site which reduces the interest of WEB.DESIGNER for a corporate use. New features have been added to this release like the ability to preview images into the gallery docker window. Once pictures have been previewed you can drag and drop them into your page. A nice feature is the autoconvert engine that will convert any picture to the JPEG or GIF format automatically. At least Corel WEB.Designer supports forms: you can now use the form creation tools to create on your webpage text frames, buttons, checkboxes, lists, and more! Like every Webpage designing tool, Corel WEB.DESIGNER fully supports CSS, JavaScript, ActiveX, applets, embedded files and layering. If you want to create a frame enabled website you’ll be glad to know that Corel included a frame wizard to further ease your job: this wizard will guid you to specify the width, height, number, and position of web frames. Sure an uploading tool is provided and you can upload your new website to the server directly from Corel WEB.DESIGNER. WebMaster need to be sure their website is typo error free: so corel added to its Web page designer a Spell Checker and a Thesaurus based on the Corel’s Wordperfect technology. This software also comes with image-mapping features so you can define click areas on part of a picture. Strangely during our test the software was unable to open our SHTML ActiveWin web pages files to edit them... Finally you can hopefully edit the source code of your pages to add some of your own or to check if everything is OK.

Corel WEB.DESIGNER 2 Interface (click to enlarge)