What I'd like to see in Web Designer

**nickydude** · 05 March 2009, 01:14 AM

A bit premature I know but rather than having umpteen threads about what you'd like to see in Web Designer, perhaps you could include them here so Xara have one compact place to see what customers are after. Ok I'll start.

• To right click on an object and 'lock' that particular object from being edited. I'm aware that you can turn off layers from being edited but not 1 particular object on that layer, for example a rectangle covering the page.

• When right clicking in text mode, the ability to 'Select All' text.

**covoxer** · 05 March 2009, 06:28 AM

Originally Posted by nickydude

When right clicking in text mode, the ability to 'Select All' text.

Ctrl+A shall help you. And is faster than right click + menu option select.

**nickydude** · 05 March 2009, 12:23 PM

Very nice, thank you.

**dogbertbh** · 05 March 2009, 03:32 PM

I'm VERY happy with the result here. I swear I've had dreams about how this would work since the days of Frontpage and they've finally come true through XWD!!

I would like to have my .web file upload to the ftp site along with the rest of the site. They're typically not large files and it would make the file available at the next computer i go to.

So if I work from home and upload my site, then go to work and somehow be able to download my .web file.

Right now I ftp and upload the .web file for editing where I go next.

Also, I'd like to be able to click / right-click for color selection. -maybe I missed that.

OOH!! And the shapes tool would be cool to have as well - starbursts & the like

**covoxer** · 05 March 2009, 03:42 PM

Originally Posted by dogbertbh

I would like to have my .web file upload to the ftp site along with the rest of the site.

Place your web file inside the "files" folder (named like "index_htm_files" that is createl alongside the exported index.htm file for example) and it will be upload with all the other files.

**dogbertbh** · 05 March 2009, 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by covoxer

Place your web file inside the "files" folder (named like "index_htm_files" that is createl alongside the exported index.htm file for example) and it will be upload with all the other files.

THIS is why I love Xara.

That's right - I said it

Thanks John!!

**bayoda** · 24 March 2009, 06:02 AM

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!

**Tarrquin** · 24 March 2009, 08:30 AM

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

)

**nickydude** · 24 March 2009, 10:29 AM

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).

**pauland** · 24 March 2009, 01:14 PM

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.