Look at this WONDERFUL website - Can WD9 (or WD10) do this?!!

Here's Google's official site for the new Nexus 7.

http://www.google.com/nexus/7/

As you'd expect from Google, it's pretty top notch. Can WD9/10 produce something like this?

It has full-screen (autoscaling) video playback.

Parallax scrolling (background images scroll slower than foreground text boxes to give an impression of depth) FANTASTIC!

With everything autosizing/autoscaling - it's just beautiful.

Anyone?

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Can WD9/10 produce something like this?

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No..

And WD10 won't be released until first quarter 2014.. :)

For $89 I should certainly hope so! At that price they should also throw in for free a team of highly experienced web designers on-call [we know Xara has the best coders so they wouldn't be needed]

There's also the $49.99 version, John.

#-o DOH! Well, it can't do it then

You would have to look at something like wordpress for something like this, and that's free.

Just remembered a great site, similar to the one in the op (although not with the video) which has been done with xara and shows what can be achieved. http://www.n90media.de/

Looks really bad at 800x600 ;))

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Originally Posted by skech

similar to the one in the op (although not with the video) which has been done with xara and shows what can be achieved. http://www.n90media.de/

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Sorry, but that is not even remotely similar, it is neither parallax nor responsive.
As I'm sure you are aware, skech - the Parallax effect (or parallax scrolling) in web design is the technique that features layered images that move around the website in different speeds/perspectives creating a nice and interesting 3D illusion (another example is http://www.kitkat.com/), while a responsive website changes its appearance and layout based on the size of the screen the website is displayed on.

Xara's software has no technologies that can create or emulate such dynamic coding from a static design using what is fundamentally still a vector drawing application (camelot).

The n90media site is a very good example of what can be done by using Xara's software and intelligent imagination rather than hacking at the supplied templates, but is not similar to the nexus 7 site in the slightest.

sketch said similar to, not exactly the same. And I agree the site he linked to does seem similar and regardless it's well done and effective.

I know what he said, I repeated the word. I don't believe there is any similarity at all, especially as the OPs excitement is based entirely on the parallax scrolling and responsive design functions.

You will see that there is a faux parallax scrolling effect achieved by using a static background, and it is certainly similar and shows what can be achieved using the software, of course it is not exactly the same, that bit is obvious, but should the op want to design exactly the same site?

Exactly. sledger is right that it is not the same, but it does show that something with a similar look and feel can be accomplished with a bit of hard work and ingenuity.

I'm not try to be being difficult for the sake of it here, honest. As I have explained, the OPs excitement is based entirely on the parallax scrolling and responsive design functions.
Whilst the layout may bear a resemblance, the two sites are not similar in how they appear to a visitor as they scroll through the content.
It is not even a faux parallax scrolling effect because the background does not scroll at a different rate (speed) than the overlays, it is static, therefore it does not imitate parallax scrolling at all.

EDIT: The http://www.n90media.de/ website appears to have been changed since yesterday, now goes straight to the tablet.htm page.

perhaps a full width slider like this one would be able to create the parallax effect but with a responsive design i.e WP as sketch said

Scruffy

If you want responsive design without the coding hassle you're pretty much limited to things like Joomla etc. But that's not to say you can't do all your graphics in Xara. You just can't do any of the web design in it.

Myself and my company we build in Wordpress, and use xara to handle the graphics part, this allows us to provide the client with a content management system and we provide all the training. This paralax effect and what not I have seen some people explore Adobe Muse. I find it is more limiting them wordpress in many ways, but I must admit I have seen some pretty cool sites come out of muse. Check it out!
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