I'd like to see an added preview button that previews pages using the FF rendering engine.
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I'd like to see an added preview button that previews pages using the FF rendering engine.
I'd like to option to specify a primary and secondary viewing browser, a bit like DreamWeaver. For example F12 view primary selected browser (say, FF), Ctrl+F12 view in secondary browser (say IE).
Just to add (because I can't edit the above) that I rarely use the built-in preview, I always Export and test the site in my default browser.
Yes I think this is the most reliable way.
I use preview all the time, if it were only to see if and how certain bits and links work as I include them.
Upgraded Webstyle to Web Designer today. Really like the new GUI and it's consistency with Xara Xtreme.
Definitely miss the following from Webstyles and wish they were added back into Web Designer:
(1) The very easy GUI way to create drop down levels of menus
(2) The ability to import and use all those 5 Webstyle template packs I bought.
Seems a bit of a depressing trend lately that upgrades really end up removing some of my most used (and useful) features from the old version (Adobe did the same thing with its CS4 upgrade by removing all their starter pages from Dreamweaver).
Hi RSendek,
Welcome to Talkgraphics.
You can include your Webstyle created navbars into a Web Designer web site. Use a placeholder then copy and paste the line from the Webstyle create html file into the placeholder. You will need to copy your navbar javascript and graphic files to your Web Designer export folder.
Hi Bill,
Thanks for the reply.
I realize there are work-around ways to get Webstyle drop down menus and old template pack graphics into Web Designer, it's just a bit depressing when upgrading to a new version makes features that were very easy in the old version more difficult to accomplish.
and the ability to combine this "form" tools with snippets from Ruby on Rails.
Wow would that be an tool...
HTML Code Snippets Gallery:
So with a Drag n' Drop you could place a "Placeholder" with
HTML / JavaScript into the website....
Placeholder for Frameworks
For Example Blueprint.css -> Framework
For Scriptacoulus and all these frameworks
Liquid - Design? - Resizeable Design possible? in the Future?
thanks xara for the good first start - I think you would enhance the program really good!
New to Web Designer (of course) but impressed. However, after an embarrassing moment of ill-attention I'd like to suggest the following enhancement:
That the .web data includes the name of the folder to which that website should be exported.
Currently, Export recalls the last folder exported to, even if it was for the other website I was working on (hence the embarrassment :o )
The ability to mulit-select when using Import from the file menu (or am I missing something? Yes, I know you can drag and drop but that's flipping windows backwards and forwards). :)
A size report. One for each page and one for each image, perhaps with a threshold warning so that novices are aware of how long their pages may take to load and can find the culprits easily because the image sizes are listed.
Perhaps the size report could be generated on preview/demand.
Wish list:
* Page Explorer which allows multiple page selection & actions.
* Page number in check box area would be nice. (I know it is on the bottom).
* Proper names for the resources instead of 138.jpg. Current naming makes it hard to manually upload individual pages.
* Synchronise option for upload instead of total upload each time
* Tables. The rulers & tabs go part way
* Easier setting of TABs on the rulers - too small & too finicky (have I missed a text box setting for them?) Perhaps like para spacing.
* Ability to set BOTH margin & first line Tab simultaneously a la Word. Set one relative to other and then drag pair.
* Drag & drop for video files.
* Multi-level menus (yes built-in Webstyle - I'm sure it will come)
* Publish location saved into each .WEB
* ABility to link multiple .WEB files so that updates of Repeating objects can be effected in multiple .WEBs. Single .WEB files do not cut it for reasonable sized sites as they bloat too quickly. Great for small sites of a few pages. Large .web files (>150MB) cause memory overflow during export.
* More control over where resources are located (instead of index_html...).
Now this is pie in sky
* Forms - feedback etc.
* Database (don't really care which) access. Would love to control display of photos from filtered list from database.
* Not altogether happy with Font rendering, especially light on dark. Handling of Font selection, esp Web Safe fonts is great.
I did say WISH and I am aware that this is a $50 program. This first pass, despite the length of my wish list, is excellent.
PS: What are PMs?
PMs are Private Messages. If you'll look at the upper-right corner of any screen, just under your Welcome message, you'll see a hyperlink that reads, Private Messages.
Now remember all this stuff is new to me so be kind.
3 Options for placeholder frames
1- Option to "Auto resize" the placeholder's frame to the aspect ratio according to sizing info included in the script or widget
2- Option to allow the placeholder's frame to crop the viewing window (and add scrollbars if necessary)
Not sure if the following is necessary, but if it would be good to have, then
3- Set the anchor point of the placeholder frame to one of its four corner selection handles (not just the upper-left).
I totally agree - while Web Designer looks absolutely AWESOME ! - After more exploration I was very dissappointed to find that it does not have the drop down menus built in like Webstyle did... I mean after all, Xara is boasting that you only need ONE program now to do everything... Apparently Not.
AND that I can't easily import any of my Webstyle Template packs, buttons, banners, backgrounds, icons etc... due to the weird coding used in Webstyle.
I would hope that Xara has a plan for future releases to somehow make those importable... or are they just going to charge me for new template packs all over again? That would really bite.
Sometime in the future, I'd like XWD flash animations to be able to do motion path animation.
Perhaps in could be done through Xara's Blend-along-path option; the path would be given a name and the beginning and ending objects would be linked to the path's name. A copies of the blend would then be placed in two consequetive frames. For it to work properly, there would have to better tracking of an object's orientation so, for example, if an arrow was blended along a path with a right-angle it could turn the corner without distorting.
Already there John, it's called 'tweening' and it's available under file>>new>>animation (shift-ctrl-n)
Animation is then exported as a flash (.swf) and added to your page in a placeholder.
Steve, the examples I've seen can't track along a non-straight path. See my edit above about the arrow.
You can do it with two tweens but with complex paths I would hope for quicker and easier way to implement.
Open WD - ctrl+select (or shift+select) your .web files in explorer and drop them onto the WD title bar.
Viola! Multi-import.
Just as simple as (or maybe simpler than?);
Open WD - go to: File>>Open>>Ctrl+Select (or shift+select) and pressing open.
And this is NOT a workaround.
It's a method to achieve the desired result.
A way to 'succeed' ;)
LOL! Well I can't answer accurately if you edit your post 6 times while I'm writing my response and sipping my tea John :rolleyes:
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I tell you what, Egg or salaam will be able to answer this much better than I.
They are the Flash'spurts here at TG :D
Yeh, Steve .sorry about that. Mangle couple fingers in right hand; keep hitting the wrong keys.
Just another quicky. The page name on the status bar at the bottom right, could you make it a bit wider? :) I've also noticed that when moving through the pages using the up/down arrows, the subsequent pages don't change to the current one. What I mean is that if you're on page 1 and navigate to page 3 using the arrow, page 1 is still the current so any changes you make (say deleting a layer) that you think is on page 3 will be deleted from page 1. Perhaps as you move through the pages the one showing could be the highlighted one?
!) contact form
2) ecommerce solution
3) paypal integration
on my wish list would be:
1. that when you increase the length of a page everything repositions automatically to the top of the page rather than having to SELECT ALL and then manually move everything up.
There's something odd about extending the bottom of a page and then finding that the extra space has actually been added to the top.
2. Saving folder names with the .web file so you don't end up overwriting the previous web you were working on . . . I suspect we've all been there by now! :)
Er?? This is not the case in Xara Web Designer :confused:
Either manually dragging at the bottom of the page or increasing the length from Options>>Page Size always adds the extension to the bottom (foot) here.
Xara Xtreme behaves the way you describe, but not so with WD
Navigation through the template galleries, i.e. when you open a picture and get the popup on your site you can move to next or previous images.
I tell you what I'd like to see in WD - A bloomin' master page creator and page manager, quite frankly its ridiculous with the current system of just replicating pages and ending up with a million pages on one screen. In Serif Webplus, you have a masterpage manager, which will automatically stick the headers, footers, and templates on each page and automatically adjust so you can resize the page length. You can also manage the pages, make one a child of another etc.
When dragging the right or bottom of a page to increase its size, enable a contraint key (ie., Ctr-drag) such that the stretching is done in whole pixel units.
What makes you think it isn't John?
Intigrate menu maker. There is alot of help here but I just can't seem to get my button to work properly. Or at least have some drop down templates to use. Just when I thought I had it all working when I test it it won't do what I want them to do. I like the menu maker and now that I have it I'd like to use it. Sorry, I have a flaming headache from trying to work on these between other things and just simply getting lost and frustrated.
Steve, I see now its a feedback thing in the lower right of taskbar. Maybe a bug.
Begin with a 800 x 600 page, set the origin to the top-left corner.
Place cursor on right side of page. When the cursor changes, the taskbar shows 800pix. As soon as the cursor is dragged, the taskbar feedback shows .5pix increments. The decimal amount varies depending upon the zoom level.
The page size in the options dialog always indicates whole pixels while dragging. (I've never had the dialog opening while dragging with the mouse before, otherwise, I would have stated the above posting differently. Sorry.
Same in Xara Xtreme 3 and up.
It's a cursor position status. Probably shows .5 because the tip of the cursor is .5 of a pixel at 1:1 zoom
Support for Dynamic content that causes variable page lengths,
flyout menus.
I do hope the head honchos at Xara are taking note of our desires. As for me, Master Page, Master Page, Master Page! Such an option would be a great timesaver. Or a widget type function like WordPress has.
While I'm at it, how about a master page option for Xara 5, just like InDesign?
When you right click to edit the color of an object, the color pallete should pop up to the current color of the object. That way you can move it just a hair if you like, instead of having to try and get the same color all over again, or having to find and type in the hex color.