Xara Web Designer 365 is an easy to use, template based web. Websites can be edited from anywhere in the world via the cloud and clients or team members can change current content or add content of their own. An in depth review of the new Xara Web Designer 9 by the Xara Xones own. Xara Online Designer Still in beta version but evolving rapidly into a powerful collaborative tool with more and more editing capabilities.
Plus you can password protect your site, or pages within your website.
This includes web hosting for one year, 2GB of web hosting storage, and a free domain name, for example.
Free M-Hosting for One Year Included in the price of Designer Pro X 365 is one free year of M-Hosting. Read the description in the file for more info. Has a number of scroll based animation effects. Pagoda Single Page Website Shows parallax scroll on the top image and heading.
Lower down the page there are various new hover (mouse-over) effects in a few picture galleries and a roll-in animation applied to the new Percentage ring SmartShape. Fresh Single Page Website A reveal animation for the heading, a ‘stick at top’ NavBar. There are 6 pages to this website each with different examples of animation effects. Able Website A ‘stick at top’ NavBar, and slide-in reveal animations on the header bar. This is also a responsive website - make the browser narrow to see the mobile variant. Charity Website A contemporary design combining parallax scrolling, with multiple scroll and reveal animation effects. Sample Websites Xara has produced some sample websites to show how these new features look when published. Then when your visitor scrolls down the page, the objects or navigation bar when it reaches the top of the page, sticks there. Stick to Top In addition to the ability to stick a graphic or navigation bar to your page, a new setting, Stick to Top lets you add an object or navigation bar to your page, but have it offset from the top of the page. Use Apply but don’t click OK to keep the dialog open. You dont need any programming skills, you can design your website using drag and drop as you wish. Select a template, edit text, add photos and videos. The best way to determine how each works is to apply these and then preview the page to see the effects in action. With Web Designer Premium, you can easily create high-quality websites for companies, clubs or private purposes. īack to product details Add your review.Shown above are the entire listing of Reveal and Scroll Animations. If you want to make a site with short "pages" and pretty graphics, Xara may well work fine for you. Fourthly, when I tried to republish an imported html article, it gave an "out of memory message" and didn't spit out half the file. Thirdly, trying to import files with tables gives unpredictable or missing results. Xara Web Designer 365 is 49.99, and Xara Web Designer 365 Premium is 99.99.
Premium includes a free one-year upgrade with 2GB of space and a free top-level domain name.
Both versions of Xara Web Designer 365 include 500MB of web space. As with many of these CSS-type positioning programs, long CSS text boxes seem to be minced when browsers decode them. See the website design I put together for this Xara Web Designer 365 review.
Secondly, it works with a page metaphor, "pages" really being text boxes, and their length is limited, both within the program, and more critically with what happens when you export to a website. Firstly, the import loses all links, unless you bring in RTF. It has many import options, and I need to do a makeover of a big, text-intensive site. As a note, I've used far worse, so Xara may be a good choice for others, and if the needs are modest, this seems good. As I said, I'm looking for a replacement of Xara now. I think this is good to start and good for small sites.įor a true bare bones beginner, try Kompozer or other older free product to learn. Being able to export to other editors in the future is a key issue here, and with other programs too. It seems many web page creation programs are like that, so take care with them all. I'm having problems exporting this to any other program, thus my main gripe now is that once you use it, you are welded and stuck with it. I had to do some tweaks, and a few tables and such would not import, but over ok there. I've had good luck with copy and paste of "very standard HTML" from my old sites into Xara program. I'm not doing anything complex and only use a fraction of Xara's features, yet, I am looking for something else. This isn't bad, but it gets clumsy as the site grows, and as an occasional user, it can be awkward. I've used a number of Xara products in their web site creation products.