Xara Web Designer - Web Design for the rest of us!

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 is unlike any website creation tool you've seen before - here's some of the reasons why:

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!

A One Tool Solution

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!

Total Design Freedom

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!

What you see is what you get (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.

First Time Reactions to Xara Web Designer

" Goodbye Adobe!! App of the year for me!!!" - LucidBoomer

" This program is earth shattering. Really!" - Nick bcfirst.com

" Totally awesome." - Callie

" Makes me want to quit my job and become a web designer!"
- Ross M.

" Your new program is the best I've ever bought." - Patrick W. Belgium

" Xara has a home run with the XWD!" - Magadoc

" I didn't think this would be much value to me, but I find I use it more
and more because it's so damn easy and fast."- Dan B (Professional web designer)

Compatibility

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.

Xara Web Designer Features

Create Websites
Create Web Graphics
Create Flash
Rapid website prototyping

There is simply no easier, quicker way to create a website. Full stop. Here's how:

Choose a Design

Pick your page design from the bundled templates, all created by professional designers so that quality is guaranteed. There are multiple page layouts in co-ordinated theme sets, so your site looks consistent.

Custmomize 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; 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.

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..

Publish

Check your design in the browser preview and then simply enter your FTP details and click Publish.

If you need individual graphics for your existing page, Web Designer is the tool for you

Use professional templates

Web Designer also includes template designs for individual graphics, from headings and buttons to text boxes and speech bubbles! Again they are all created by professional designers and can be customized to fit your site in seconds.

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 Xtreme.

Need Flash animations? No problem.

Quick as a Flash

Web Designer 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.

Design website prototypes with unrivalled freedom, no HTML skills required.

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

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.