Xara Web
Designer is unlike any web editor you will have seen before; an easy template
based solution that gives you total page design freedom, no HTML skills
required. Web Designer gives you total design freedom – using drag and drop you
can literally place anything, anywhere on the page. And things which are
normally difficult to achieve in HTML are a snap in Web Designer – for example
text with curved edges, text or graphics at an angle, text flowing around
objects – no problem! Working with industry standards is vital, so Web Designer
sites are W3C compliant, cross browser compatible (IE 5.5, Firefox, Safari,
Chrome) and XHTML, CSS standards based. It can also import a huge range of files
types for vector graphics, image and text including PDF, RTF, RAW, PSD, TIFF and
of course JPEG, PNG, GIF. Whether you customize one of the bundled templates or
create your own graphics or animations, it’s genuinely WYSIWYG – what you see in
Web Designer is exactly what you get on your website. Traditional web authoring
tools are really just HTML editors, they are designed to create text layouts,
providing few graphical capabilities. And yet it’s evident that the vast
majority of modern websites are of a graphical nature. We believe you should
have complete freedom to include anything – text, graphics, photos – anywhere on
the page, using just one tool. And you shouldn’t need to know, or even see, the
HTML that goes into creating your site, any more than a car driver needs to know
how an engine works.
The Web Designer approach is simple: Pick your
design from the templates; customize it with complete freedom; publish.
Absolutely no HTML or javascript skills are required! Templates include
individual web graphics, complete pages and even pre-built multi-page
sites.
You only need one program for creating graphical websites – from
design to publishing – and that’s Web Designer. Web Designer includes
customizable template designs plus tools for creating your own vector graphics
and animations, for photo editing (an integrated ultra-fast, non-destructive
photo tool), and for advanced text layout. Site upload is covered
too!
Web Designer’s templates are created by top professional designers,
so the quality is guaranteed. But of course you can customize the color, text,
images, size etc to create your own personal look without any loss of quality.
It’s the best of both worlds!
But we have some clever tricks too, to make
things easier for you – here’s just a few of the things that will save you time
and trouble:
Liquid text flow around objects; easy mouseover, thumbnail and
pop-up creation; automatic adjustment of photos to the correct web resolution;
one-click change of site wide theme colors and shades; automatic color matching
of imported objects such as buttons; and buttons and text panels that
automatically stretch as you change the text.
What’s New In Xara Web Designer 7:
Web
Authoring/ Web Publishing:
* New: Widgets
* Presentation websites
* New
animated transition effects for layers and page links
* Intelligent repeating
headers / footers / watermarks
* Create your own distinctive ‘favicons’
*
Sitemap support
* Built-in preview window now includes navigation
buttons
* Preview your web page in full screen
* Quickly preview your
pages in all the most popular web browsers
* Explore your FTP web
space
General Tools & Useability Enhancements:
* Brand new ‘magic
snap’ for object alignment
* Improved page management
* Improved page
management
* Advanced graphics tools
* A new straight line / arrowhead
tool
* New paste operations
* Export animation documents as AVI files
*
Tabbed document windows
* Quick alignment of selected objects
* Fly-out
galleries for instant viewing and flexible docking
* Solid, live shape
drawing
* HTML 5 video
* Hierachical Designs Gallery
* Easier control
of graphic styles (attribute rules).
Other Minor Enhancements:
* Greater
control over clipping objects to page
* Improved context sensitive menus
*
Add your website to Xara/MAGIX user galleries
* Clearer InfoBar text
rendering
* Easily add header code to a page or website
* New Photo
Optimize dialog control
* Text repelling within layers