Although you have to set up synchronisation of the. Synchronising site changes using either Dropbox or Google Drive is now supported for the first time. When published, all the width variants are contained in a single dynamic HTML file, and the most apt one displayed to suit the host device. For the best results you might want to manually create different crops in your images or drop certain elements or content from your mobile site for simplicity, while keeping core text and menu options shared across all variants. You can then choose which edits will replicate across them all to minimise effort. Web Designer can also cater to a wide variety of screen sizes and input methods with its Responsive Web Design feature, which makes several variants of a site with widths to suit various screens. Here we’re modifying Twitter, Facebook and email buttons so that they stick in place while the page scrolls It’s surprising how quickly you can find yourself doing something quite advanced: it took us less than five minutes to open a site created in version 9, reposition the social media buttons, make them stick in place during scrolling and apply the change to the whole site. A new sticky feature also lets you keep elements stationary while the user scrolls the page. It’s simple to group or ungroup elements to keep them together, and to make them repeat on all pages of a site. Text, images and other elements can all be placed freely on the page, with guidelines appearing as necessary to help you align them with the edges or centre of other elements, or with the page itself. While Web Designer won’t make you an expert overnight, it’s commendably easy to get started. This five-page website walks you through common web design concepts, shows you how to create, modify and preview them on the document itself, and gives an insight into some of Web Designer’s more advanced features. The interactive introduction document which loads automatically when you first open the software is ideal for novices. Expanding galleries docked at the right include the all-important Designs gallery, which is home to a large amount of free content including graphical elements, buttons, widgets, themes and so on. At the left, a large pane holds the preview of the page you’re working on, while to the right the Page & Layer gallery lets you navigate between the pages of your site, drill down within their structure and show, hide or lock layers. There’s been no obvious update to Web Designer’s interface, but it still looks fresh and, given the huge amount of features to cram in, surprisingly uncluttered. The program starts being helpful from when you first install it More significantly, Web Designer 11 Premium introduces a beta version of cloud.xara, a cloud-hosted platform for simple editing via the web. There are no dramatic changes in this version, but several new features reflect trends in web design toward fewer pages, increased scrolling, and sliding, fading or other animated elements. The first bit of good news is that the price has fallen slightly since our last review: the standard software costs £35, Premium is £70, and upgrades to the latter from earlier releases cost from £30-£45. As with earlier releases, Web Designer 11 comes as either a standard version containing a generous set of core features, or the bells-and-whistles Premium which we’re reviewing here. Xara’s Web Designer provides a great way to build websites with a simple WYSIWG editor. There’s usually acres of HTML, javascript and other arcane code behind even the most minimal websites, but the majority of us would probably rather not peek behind the curtain.
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