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THE XARA XONE FEATURED ARTIST - DENIS SAZHIN
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My name is Denis Sazhin.

I was born in USSR, in Gorkiy town. Now the country is called Russia and my native town is called Nizhny Novgorod... so there is nothing left :) I went to one of the state public schools (the only schools that existed at that time). They were all  pretty much the same. They didn't have names, just numbers, and they all taught the same common stuff.

After I graduated from school at the age of seventeen, I still didn't know who I was or what I was going to do. So I entered a technical university to  study to be a systems engineer and studied there for six full years. At the same time I worked as a programmer for several software companies and eventually started to worry that I was going to be a programmer forever. Though I knew I was not a great one!

Finally, at the age of 25 (yes, after wasting 8 years of my life), I realized I could not afford to waste more time on things I didn't like to do. So I quit my postgraduate course at the university, quit my job, left my town, and moved to Moscow, the capital, to start from scratch. I found a job as a web designer and learned everything in the process. I started to act quickly and that's why I changed jobs several times in a short period—about five jobs in two or three years, and I learned about design, animation, illustration and so on. Then I finally decided I didn't want to be an employee anymore and I started to work for myself.

Now I'm thirty, I'm an illustrator and icon developer, I have my own business and that brings me up to date.

Denis Sazhin
ICONKA.com

 

Xara makes several graphics products and all of them are fun and easy to use. And Xara makes this site possible so it would be nice if you just went to these pages and had a look see. Thanks.

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You are probably aware of Xara Xtreme but have you downloaded Xara Xtreme Pro? All the tutorials in this Workbook are done in Xtreme Pro, so if you don’t have it, get it now.

Here are some other products made by Xara and links to the Xara.com Website.

  • NEW! Xara Web Designer Now there is an easy-as-Xara way to create a professional looking website. Web Designer 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 Workbook
  • Xara Xtreme Pro Xara’s flagship product. Now with full PDF import and export support and Flash animation capabilities which you can see demonstrated in the upper left corner of this page. Xara is the world’s faster vector drawing program and as the artwork in the Featured Artist Gallery attests, one heck of a program. Click here to download your FREE trial version or to upgrade to Xara Xtreme Pro today!
     
  • Xara Graphics Studio Xara’s three most popular products in one irresistible bundle. Xara Graphic Studio contains Xara Xtreme, Xara-3D 6 and Webstyle 4. This bundle will save you a bundle!
     
  • 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 Webstyle 4 Everyone can make quality web graphics with Xara Webstyle, whatever your skill level. From banner ads to complete web pages, simply customize the templates.
     
  • 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?

 

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