Xara Xtreme verison 4

[Charles Moir]

FrontPage and Dreamweaver are both powerful, dedicated web authoring tools. So in the same way that Xtreme is not a replacement for the more advanced pixel editing feature of Photoshop, it is not a replacement for the more powerful or advanced 'HTML hacking' features of these programs. Xtreme does not provide any HTML view, style sheet editing or FTP upload capability for example.

Xtreme is, of course, primarily a graphics application. Those web authoring tools are absolutely not graphics programs and you are expected to purchase and use separate tools to create your web graphics (many use Xtreme for this), and use Frontpage or Dreamweaver to do the page layout and HTML stuff.

So what Xtreme is good for is a one-stop-shop for creating graphically advanced websites. Secondly it's dead simple. Draw whatever you like, wherever you like on the page. Use a few simple rules about grouping graphics and use of layers for mouse-over effects (see the release notes). Export as HTML - and you have a website that's basically exactly what you see in Xtreme.

So it's really much easier than using FrontPage or Dreamweaver, but you are also able to create websites that those product cannot possibly hope to do. But if you want advanced HTML, CSS, or scripting control, then Xtreme doesn't help you.

[ss-kalm]

The text repel feature work very well - Looks like I will be purchasing the upgrade very soon.