Xara xone special edition: Xara web designer preview!!!

[BQ]

Gary,

Thanks for all your work introducing us all to Web Designer.

I did though notice that when you go to the 5th page of your tutorial that it opens up in the middle of the page. This seems like strange behavior for a webpage. Any idea why this is happening?

[covoxer]

Gary,

Thanks for all your work introducing us all to Web Designer.

I did though notice that when you go to the 5th page of your tutorial that it opens up in the middle of the page. This seems like strange behavior for a webpage. Any idea why this is happening?

As you may see, there are numerous snippets inserted in this page. The Google snippet has code that transfers focus to it when the page is loaded. So it scrolls to this snippet.

[BQ]

So John, was this done intentionally to prove some feature of Web Designer?

[covoxer]

So John, was this done intentionally to prove some feature of Web Designer?

I don't know. This we have to ask Gary about. I just know why it works this way.
BTW - beware with all those snippets, quite a lot of them are badly programmed and may inroduce some unexpected behaviour to the page, or even brake it down. Please note, that all pages from this site successfully pass W3C validation except for page 5, because most snippets used there don't validate.

[BQ]

John, thank you for the response and explanation.

[gwpriester]

I inserted all those Google gadgets and the YouTube video to show how easily this can be accomplished. I tried some of the same gadgets in NetObjects Fusion 11 and had the same results with the page scrolling to the center.

I guess the smart thing to do if you are using Google gadgets or plug-ins (and Xara plans to include a list of recommended gadgets and how to set them up) place them at the top of your page.

The possibilities here are incredible given the fact that there are in excess of 64,000 Google gadgets available. And of course there are also public domain scripts you can embed and even some of the effects from Xara On-Line.

There is a complete list of all the features posted here.

Charles Moir turned me on to a really no-brainer free web-based form tool http://jotform.com/ that creates custom or wizard generated form code which you can paste into Web Designer to add forms. They have a pay version which lets you add captcha, the words you have to key in correctly before you submit the form. The pay version is under $10 US a month and if you do a lot of forms, it's a steal.

[covoxer]

Gary, JotForm snippets can be used only if you don't use popups and rollovers. These snippets assume that there's no other scripts on page and may break it if it's not so.

[Improv]

It would be a nice bonus if it can import Webstyle 4 materials...

[Improv]

Just received by mail:

The program costs just $49 for US customers, £39 inc VAT in the EU. Better still if you have Xtreme 4 or Webstyle 4 you can purchase Web Designer for just $29 or £23 inc VAT (this is an introductory 2 month offer).


I'm buying it

It's hard to say no to an offer like that! :-)

[jclements]

In X4, if you create a button bar using the round-cornered-rectangles, then it automatically explodes the rectangle.

What happens in Web Desigener?