| | | | | Testimonials "You've done a great job taking complicated tasks, in all of your software, and making them simple and intuitive, the next generation of GUI in advanced software." - Scot Ranney "I just purchased Web Designer and I have to say I love it! You guys did it again!" - Will Reeb "Web Designer is like a magic riding mower in a world of push mowers. It's faster, cleaner, more comfortable and makes all the complications of "Expression Web" disappear." - Nick Boothman | | Xara Web Designer MX 8.0 Superstamps can be very useful for those who wanted to have their own website to make it more attractive. I think it will be good if they work together. Xara Web Designer 8 is unlike any web design software you will have seen before; an easy template based solution that gives you total page design freedom, no HTML skills required. Comes in 2 versions, Web Designer and Web Designer Premium; Premium offers advanced web design features Why Web Designer MX 8? Seeing is believing Simply watch our movie and you'll find out how to create a great looking website in minutes, no HTML skill required! 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. There's no easier solution 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. A one tool solution  You only need one program for creating graphical websites - from design to publishing - and that's Web Designer MX. Web Designer 8 includes customizable web graphic, webpage and website template designs plus tools for creating your own vector graphics, for photo editing (an integrated ultra-fast, non-destructive photo tool), and for advanced text layout. The Designs Gallery also includes a collection of Widgets. Site upload is covered too and there's even a free web hosting offer! Total design freedom Web Designer MX 8.0 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 8.0 - for example text with curved edges, text or graphics at an angle, text flowing around objects - no problem! WYSIWYG 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. Quality results guaranteed 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! Clever stuff 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. Compatibility Working with industry standards is vital, so Web Designer sites are W3C compliant, cross browser compatible (IE 6+, 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. Create Websites Choose a design Pick your page design from the bundled templates, all created by professional designers so that quality is guaranteed. There are pre-built , ready linked multi-page sites, or you can build your own from the page layouts offered in co-ordinated theme sets. Add additional pages by simply duplicating the current one or dropping another layout from the Designs Gallery - made even easier by an auto color-matching feature and a Replicate command for button bars that allows you to match newly added pages to existing ones. Then you can customize the pages with complete freedom and absolutely zero loss of quality. Customize as required  Use simple drag and drop to position things on the page as you wish; enter your text (spell checker included); drag and drop any new items such as text panels, headings or extra buttons from the templates in the Designs Gallery or import your own or create new images with the drawing tools; set up links on your NavBars and menus; drag and drop your own photos (photo editor included if you need to crop or adjust brightness, contrast etc); customize colors with the simple one-click theme color editing. For extra impact, adding mouseover effects, thumbnails and pop-ups is simple. Add widgets to your site And it's a snap to add widgets to your site, such as Google Maps, Picasa photo albums and slideshows, YouTube movies, news feeds and many, many more... What's more the Designs Gallery includes a collection of popular widgets that can be just dragged onto the page you're working on. Note: Premium has a larger selection of widgets including the new 'eye catcher' animated text and photo widgets, and e-commerce widgets such as Paypal. Publish Check your design in the browser preview and then simply enter your FTP details and click Publish. And if you don't already have a web host, you can take advantage of the completely free web hosting offer included with Web Designer from MAGIX. We told you it was easy! Create Web Graphics Use professional templates  Web Designer also includes template designs for individual graphics, from buttons, NavBars and headings to text boxes and speech bubbles! Again they are all created by professional designers and can be customized to fit your site in seconds. These individual graphics can be exported in the standard web formats such as GIF, JPEG, PNG for use on existing websites, or they can be added to any page being created in Web Designer. Or create custom graphics If you don't find a template to fit the bill, no problem, Web Designer includes comprehensive, intuitive and powerful drawing tools from our award winning illustration software Xara Designer. So you can create your own graphics from scratch and either add them to the page being created in Web Designer or export them as JPEG, PNGs or GIFs. Rapid Website Prototyping Fast prototypes for designers For designers, Web Designer offers unparalleled design freedom. It's perhaps the fastest website prototyping tool around, even for websites created from scratch. As a designer you don't need to know anything about HTML, but you'll have complete freedom to design websites as simple or as complex as you need, with an actual working HTML result, rather than just a 'fake' static mock-up. Design without compromise You don't need to compromise your design just because this is a webpage. Web Designer supports transparency, even grad transparency (for graphics, photos and text); it has full, automatic alpha channel support for things like soft shadows, anti-aliasing and semi-transparent objects; and if you include things not supported by HTML (let's say rotated text) it automatically converts them to optimized web graphics. Web Designer Premium Flash & GIF animation Web Designer Premium is one of the easiest tools for creating truly efficient Flash animations, which you can export as .swf or add to any page being created in Web Designer. New: Extra Widgets Web Designer Premium includes a larger selection of Widgets in the Designs Gallery, including the new slick photo and text animation 'eye catcher' Widgets that can help give your website an edge, making them more interesting and dynamic. Plus there's a selection of e-commerce Widgets.  New: Website and remote presentations With Web Designer Premium you can easily create web-based 'slide-show' style presentations, that your website visitors can step through using the keyboard arrow keys. Plus you can apply animated transition effects as each step and page is displayed. You can also easily remotely host a web meeting (a 'Webinar') to showcase your presentation, step by step and page by page, to a group of invited participants. New: animated page and layer transition effects Web Designer Premium makes it easy to add a wide range of animated effects to the layers and page links in your website. You can add animated transitions to any page link or pop-up layer in your web pages. Advanced graphics tools Web Designer includes many customizable graphic templates of course, and a good set of basic drawing tools, but Premium includes a range of additional graphic creation tools for those who wish to create their own graphics from scratch. These include freehand and quickshape drawing tools, shadow, bevel and mould tools, 3D extrude and feathering. Plus additional photo features such as red-eye removal and content aware scaling. Web Authoring / Web Publishing Support for text styles Web Designer now supports Text Styles, a powerful way to alter the appearance of text throughout your document with just a few clicks. Update an element of your Text Style eg font, color, line spacing etc, and all text with that Style applied throughout your document is instantly updated – headings, titles or body text. Consistent text styles help you create professional looking documents, and now it couldn't be easier.  Styles are created, updated and applied via a new Styles drop-down menu on the Text Tool InfoBar. Live Style preview - Simply select some text and then traverse the Style menu - the selection will change to show your text in each Style. It's a quick and easy way to try out your Styles without having to actually select and undo each in turn. Support for inline graphics Web Designer MX now allows you to embed 'inline graphics' in text using a simple Paste operation. Embedded graphics are great for really small items on the line such as symbols, icons etc, and are treated just like a 'character', in other words they flow and follow the same formatting rules as a character embedded in the text.  New QR Code Widget The new QR Code widget allots you to communicate text or the web address of the page that it is inserted on. Designs Gallery, new templates and UI improvements - 2 new web themes (usually sold for $10 each!) and new web graphic templates.
- Existing themes have been updated to support new features, such as the smart page resizing. Also in the updated templates many background items have been moved to the page background layer, which makes it much easier to move items around the page without accidentally moving background items.
- The Designs Gallery has been completely re-arranged and re-ordered to be more easily navigable.
- Live Designs Gallery. The Designs Gallery is now completely server linked, so we can update and add more templates, clipart, Widgets etc.
- 3000+ new items of traditional clipart and a selection of photo clipart.
Automatic object positioning & smart page resizing In previous versions of Web Designer you had to manually adjust the position of items on your page as you edited or added more text. Similarly you had to drag the bottom of the page down to make it longer as your content grew. No longer! Web Designer now has the ability to make growing text areas automatically push other objects down the page, and also lengthen the page automatically to accommodate the enlarged text areas. Creating websites based on templates will now be considerably easier and faster.  Premium Widgets added We have also added several new Widgets to the collection in the classic version of Web Designer, including a photo slideshow and chart Widget (in the folder called Example Premium Widgets). Enhancements to Widget handling - You can now preview a Widget in the Widget document directly (you do not need to Close & Save it back to the original).
- When linking to other pages of your website from within a Widget editor, you'll now see a list of all pages, making it very easy to link to any page in your website from within a Widget.
 In document pop-up link checker When you click on any item with a web link in Web Designer (not on the web page), a small pop-up appears giving you the option to follow the link, change it, or remove it - very useful if you want to test a link or view the linked page while you're working on the document. General Tools & Useability Enhancements Media Exchange via the Share Menu  The new Share Menu puts the MX (Media Exchange) into Web Designer! All titles in the MAGIX/Xara range can share media files with each other and with some important third party services. Using the new Share menu, the current selection (whether it's a photo, or any other object) can be passed as a JPEG to other installed MAGIX MX applications (eg Movie Edit Pro MX), to MAGIX Online Album, and to Flickr and Facebook. Import & export - Import graphics from the Web' has been improved and now imports graphics and text from a web page, and places them in the right position on the page. Note that since most websites use scripts, mouse-over effects and hidden objects and text, this will rarely produce a WYSIWYG result, but it is very useful for importing all graphics and text from an existing website.
- Improved Copy / Paste of HTML items from other applications such as web browsers (Note the same restrictions apply as above).
- Improved PDF import.
Page & Layer Gallery improvements Re-position / Delete / Cut or Copy multiple pages - It's now possible to select more than one page in the Page & Layer Gallery and re-position them with drag & drop. Plus there’s right click access to menu options to Delete, Cut or Copy the selection of pages to the clipboard. You can go into another document and paste whole pages. You can now also drag objects into and out of ordinary groups in the Gallery (note this is not supported for special groups like anchored groups, repeating groups, etc). Resizable Color Editor The color editor is now resizable, which is particularly useful when editing very pale shades of a color in the top right area of the color picker. Other Minor Enhancements Optimize all images An updated 'Optimize all images' function will scan all graphics and images in your document - now including PNGs as well as JPEGs - and convert them to the optimum size and optimum image type. This can substantially reduce memory use and .web file sizes. (NB this is a destructive operation). You are also given the option to optimize images to JPEG when importing, if Web Designer recommends it. NavBar button ordering The button order in the NavBar now matches that of the Page Gallery. If you re-order pages your NavBar buttons will reflect this change. Character based languages Improved formatting support for character based languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Right click options Right clicking over any empty area of the button bars on the Web Designer window will show a context menu to quickly enable or disable any tool bar. Lock page size option A new 'Lock page size' option has been added in the 'Page Options' dialog. This can prevent accidental drag resize of the lower or right page edge. | Delete Page: | Delete | | Move Page Up: | PageUp | | Move Page Down: | PageDown | | Push margins dialog: | Ctrl+Shift+H | | Toggle Push attribute on selection: | Ctrl+H | | Preview Website: | F5 | | Preview current web page: | Shift + F5 | Link handling on iOS devices Also MX is smart about the lack of mouseovers and mouse pointers on iOS devices – the first tap on a button or link will now follow the link, a second tap isn't necessary. Incremental Publishing Improved Incremental Publishing, making it smarter about publishing updates. Hue adjustment for photos Photo Enhance Tool now includes a tool for adjusting the hue on a photo. Any color can be selected and the strength of the hue adjustment controlled. Fly-out galleries A new option to turn off the fly-out galleries. Easy access previewing The 'Preview Page' and 'Preview Website' buttons have been placed beside each other on the top bar, for easier, quicker access and provided with new F5 and Shift+F5 key short cuts. Auto showing of guides Page Guides are now turned on and 'snap to guides' enabled automatically if you attempt to drag a guideline onto a page when the guides are turned off. Ctrl+rotate alignment Ctrl+rotate now aligns any straight edge vertically or horizontally. "If you can imagine it, Web Designer 7 Premium can put it into HTML form and despite all of the functionality on offer the software doesn't feel complicated or daunting." - PC Utilities "Xara Web Designer 7 Premium is a great program and there are many new or enhanced features" - Micromart "Web Designer just keeps getting better. ... And it's still not even £40." - IT Reviews "This single low-cost software provides all three - resolution independent vector graphics, ultra-fast photo editing and optimisation, and text layout all producing the HTML for your website." - Designer Today "A powerful, well-designed web editor that remains exceptionally easy to use - and it's great value, too." - Software Crew "A powerful program for creating websites exactly how you want and with the ability to create Flash animations." - Computer active "...a powerful template-based solution with a polished and professional finish. " - PhotoshopDaily "It's ideal if you never intend learning HTML or want to produce rapid prototypes." - Sitepoint "I'm playing with Web Designer and realize that you guys have done it again. " "You've done a great job taking complicated tasks, in all of your software, and making them simple and intuitive, the next generation of GUI in advanced software. " "... I wanted to congratulate you on a ground breaking piece of software. The only other software that even comes close is a plugin for Photoshop called SiteGrinder and their CSS is way worse than yours. " - Scot Ranney "It is such a fantastic 'successor' to WebStyles I can't thank you guys enough for continuing to create programs like this, that make it possible for users like me who wished they had the ability to make professional websites but just don't have the experience to learn the advanced skills. I can honestly say after spending just a few hours with Web Designer, it is going to meet ALL my needs. " - Mike Wilcox "I am in total shock! " "Web Designer is almost too easy! I'm so accustomed to hard coding that my learning curve was greater than to a novice! This is one more powerful software tool. The prive tag if also unbelievable. I have thousands invested software that takes years to master but a total beginner could stamp out a complete site in a few hours with Xara Web Designer. " "Good work.......awesome! " - Glenn Parker "I just wanted to say I have purchased Xara Xtreme 4 and Xara 3D I loved them so much that today I purchased Xara Web Designer. Web creation is new to me but your software is so easy and fun to use I just can't wait to try out this new program. " "Just wanted to let you know how much I like Xara this is a great company! " - Robert White "I Love this program! " "I have no html knoweledge and after only a few hours was able to get (what I feel) is an awesome looking website on line. I have had nothing but compliments on the site and nobody believes that I did it myself! Not only that, but the program is addicting. I can't stop tweaking it and learn a new trick every day. " "Thanks for such an awesome program. You have helped me look like a pro out there on the internet! I'm a true fan! " - Robert Slay "Thank you so much! " "You all have the best products in web design, keep the great work. I have been using your products for years. It has saved us thousands of hours from hard core line by line coding. " "The Return of Investment (ROI) is astronomical. " - Carlos Melendez |
