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Get the NewsletterA Free-Form Web Designer for the Non-Technical User
Xara Web Designer is new web page software that allows complete free-form, anything, anywhere web page design. Without any HTML or JavaScript skills required, Xara Web Designer can create graphical webpages containing text, graphics, photos, widgets and Flash.
Novice designers can benefit from ready-made professionally designed templates and graphics, including customizable headings, navigation buttons, logos, text panels and speech bubbles that can be dragged and dropped from the Designs Gallery onto the page.
In fact, all aspects of the design can be customized and users can rearrange all page elements, add their own text, graphics and photos anywhere.
Xara Web Designer Features
Xara Web Designer also introduces a number of new innovative web authoring software features, including:
- Graphics tools for creation and free mixing of vector graphics, photos and text
- Three - resolution independent vector graphics
- Photo editing and optimization
- Single-click re-coloring of all graphical elements throughout the entire website
- Automatic CSS layer creation (including semi-transparent objects), easy rollover and pop-up effects and photo thumbnails
- Flash animation
- Ability to add widgets to their site such as Google Maps, YouTube movies, Picasa photo albums, newsfeeds
Xara Web Designer offers a variety of customizable templates
At US$ 49, Xara is also tool ready to come to the rescue for the budget-restricted. It caters to consumers who want well-designed site but don't know anything about HTML, graphics creations, or JavaScript.
Users can customize their site's navigation using the button bar
The ability to customize any of the large range of ready made templates means anyone can create a really high quality website, customized to their exact needs.
Want to learn more, then check out xara.com. You can learn from tutorials and watch demos.
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This product looks fantastic at first.... BUT.
When I read the FAQ area in Xara, it kind of bamboozled CSS as being only some coders can work it out and use it.. This is not true. I am new to CSS and already figuring it out as the real way forward.
WHY you might ask?
Wll, XARA is fine if you want a static site that you place on the web, but wat if you want to update it each week? What if you have 3 sites that you want to dd some content to, change prices etc...
WithXARA, you would have to open the program, edit some areas you want content changed, save it, then open an FTP in which not allot of people can do either, then upload your new HTML and images....
This does not sound like an answer that suits most people.. The better answer to having dynamic websites that are updated all the time and show in text that they are updated constantly, would be to have a CMS running.
Now, why did I write all that up there?
Well, my point is the CSS that you gladly rubbish is the backbone to making website updating and users to simply manage small bits of content to keep a site looking fresh and "NON STATIC", is to have a CMS running.
There are a few out there to choose from, but my suggestion is to incorporate CSS into the design from the start so that designers can use this as a template framework for publishing not only good websites, but fantastic websites....
Can XARA do that?
I would purchase this product 5x over if it could, I would even push for it as the answer to templating and frameworks.
By the way, I do not advocate or represent any CMS comunity or portal. For me, my personal choice for CMS is website baker. My second choice is ModX.