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 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! 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. 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.


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.

What s New In Xara Web Designer 6:

* Significantly enhanced NavBar handling and DHTML menu support
* Drag n drop color schemes for instant color changes
* Drag n drop Widgets from the Designs Gallery, and a new Widget library
* HTML snippets can be pasted directly into your document, with an automatic preview/placeholder created
* An easy way to add links to (and upload) external files such as PDF, Flash and Word files
* Incremental Publishing
* FTP details can be stored with the document
* Named FTP profiles
* Free web hosting offer
* Totally re designed application appearance
* New fly out tools and buttons
* A large selection of new designs in the Designs Gallery
* New complete website designs
* Enhanced photo thumbnail pop ups
* Create a slideshow and Next / Previous on a gallery or any number of thumbnails
* Auto filling of the photo gallery via simple drag n drop
* Automatic photo optimize feature
* Enhanced Text tool
* Anchored graphics (so photos and graphics flow with the text)
* Support for justified text
* Easy MP4 video upload and built in video player
* Enhanced page color and background color support
* Ability to support rounded corner pages, add drop shadows to the page and set the vertical offset
* Improved Page & Layer Gallery, with a new Solo mode
* New time saving Preview current page and Preview whole document options
* Auto updating Designs Gallery
* Advanced: Simpler HTML and pure HTML paragraphs
* Automatic backup of all open documents
* Automatic save and restore of open documents on application closedown