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crabman
Can I import the XWD site to Dreamweaver to change or tweak?
Yes you can open exported HTML in the Dreamweaver. But no one can tell if the code you'll see is acceptable for you to tweak. Only you can answer this question. Check out some of the published WD built sites, look at the code, and since you have HTML coding experience, you'll see how maintainable it is for you.
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Create customized buttons/navigation menus and the like.
No. XWD does not create snippets that can be easily used in sites not created with XWD/Xtreme.
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Do I need to buy Menu maker if I buy XWD?
No, you don't need to. You can create much more sophisticated menus with XWD than you can with MenuMaker. But MenuMaker is very simple, user friendly and easy to use application. So at expense of the designing capabilities it provides a quick way to create multi level drop down menus. Menus created by MenuMaker are code snippets that can be used within any HTML, including XWD pages.
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If I use XWD is there a permanent XWD trademark that must be shown on the Home page?
No, absolutely not.
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Suppose I use XWD to create a site and for some reason I decide not to use XWD anymore can I still with ease use Dreamweaver with maintainable code?
See the answer on the first question, it's the same.
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Are there any major restrictions that I need to be aware of?
Well, probably the most prominent one is that XWD generates absolutely positioned HTML. So that, for example, the width and the height of the created page is fixed - it will not stretch to the reader's browser window width. Another one is that XWD can not open existing HTML - it is not a HTML editor but HTML creator. There may be more depending on your requirements and workflow.
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Will XWD or Menu Maker assist in making graphics or perhaps Home page banners?
XWD is generally a graphics design application (actually a truncated version of Xtreme) so it can produce any graphics and animations (GIF or Flash) you may want. MenuMaker can only create template based menus, so no banners if I get you right.