What I'd like to see in Web Designer

[jclements]

Steve, I see now its a feedback thing in the lower right of taskbar. Maybe a bug.

Begin with a 800 x 600 page, set the origin to the top-left corner.

Place cursor on right side of page. When the cursor changes, the taskbar shows 800pix. As soon as the cursor is dragged, the taskbar feedback shows .5pix increments. The decimal amount varies depending upon the zoom level.

The page size in the options dialog always indicates whole pixels while dragging. (I've never had the dialog opening while dragging with the mouse before, otherwise, I would have stated the above posting differently. Sorry.

[steve.ledger]

Same in Xara Xtreme 3 and up.
It's a cursor position status. Probably shows .5 because the tip of the cursor is .5 of a pixel at 1:1 zoom

[steve911]

er...not on my copy it doesn't LOL.

There is something odd going on here which I haven't managed to pin down as yet but my web sites were originally created on Xtreme and then when WD was released I used that from then on. Maybe its something to do with setting page length manually via the dialogue box....

Here's a 1 page example. Load it and then extend the bottom of the page downwards with the cursor - the extra space appears at the top so you have to select ALL and manually move it up.

[steve.ledger]

Yep - it appears to be the Xtreme to WD import as the problem.
A minor bug which I'm sure John will sort out once he reads these posts

Just copy and paste to a new WD document and that fixes it.

See attached

[steve911]

I agree. A minor bug which doesn't detract from what remains a damn good piece of sofware.

The difference with XARA is that you get a real sense that people are actually listening when anyone points these little quirks out and you know that they will be sorted.

[stuart1980]

I tell you what I'd like to see in WD - A bloomin' master page creator and page manager, quite frankly its ridiculous with the current system of just replicating pages and ending up with a million pages on one screen. In Serif Webplus, you have a masterpage manager, which will automatically stick the headers, footers, and templates on each page and automatically adjust so you can resize the page length. You can also manage the pages, make one a child of another etc.

[pauland]

I tell you what I'd like to see in WD - A bloomin' master page creator and page manager, quite frankly its ridiculous

You're quite right and we've been waiting for similar in Xtreme. In defence of Xara, they've only recently liberated their software away from a single page application.

[KWard]

When you right click to edit the color of an object, the color pallete should pop up to the current color of the object. That way you can move it just a hair if you like, instead of having to try and get the same color all over again, or having to find and type in the hex color.

[steve.ledger]

Hi KWard,

To edit the object colour, please try this instead.
This loads the colour editor with the current object colour as required.

[henk_kok]

Though Webdesigner is the only program I know that allows the user to build a webpage really WYSIWYG ...
I find it truly annoying that it does not allow me to define the webpage directory structure myself.

When exporting the webpage, Xara re-compresses the images while storing them in a single directory. (Huh Photoshop? What's that?!)

Why not work like dreamweaver?

Have the image gallery "import" a directory with images. When these images are used, Xara simply has to tag them in the code, without having to "export" them to a single directory. Images will be addressed to with relative paths. Et voila.

This way I can define the directory names, file names and paths where those files can be found and copied from.
There is no need to export and upload entire webpages after an adjustment. Simply the index.htm (and maybe some new images) must be uploaded.

For example:
1. when building a gallery of PDF leaflets, I'd like to have thumbnail and PDF file listed in the same directory, with the same name.
2. more control during compression of images in photoshop/photopaint/netpaint/whatever