Xara Web Designer 6

**covoxer** · 09 May 2010, 07:11 AM

Cheryl, you have to make decision on your own. No one here knows if it's an appropriate program for you as we can not know what will you try to do with it.

It's much different in concept to the hand coding. The bulk of code is always generated by WD and you have almost no control over it. But you can insert some fragments of any code you wish to expand the capabilities.
Not everything you can do manually can be implemented in WD. But certainly there is a way for expansion with the code placeholders.
Is it enough for you or may be it is too restrictive depends on what you want to achieve.

**butter** · 09 May 2010, 09:49 PM

Xara is simply Wonderful!!!!

**ItsReallyCheryl** · 09 May 2010, 10:17 PM

Thank you for the input John. I think for the price, it's worth having because it's fun and easy to use. I just wish I could edit it using PSPad because that's what I normally use for my edits, but the generated code makes it impossible for me to figure out what's what.

**covoxer** · 10 May 2010, 06:44 AM

Editing exported HTML is a wrong approach here. The right approach is inserting parts of code.
For example, if you want something you can't create directly in WD, you can write the code of that element or a script and place it within the code placeholder in WD.

**TimBox** · 09 July 2010, 02:22 PM

Sorry wrong forum deleted......

**Karateed** · 09 July 2010, 05:03 PM

Hi Cheryl,

Why don't you download the trial of the program. Remember to read the fine print when you go into it to extend the trial from 7 days to 30 days. It is fully functional, however it doesn't have all the templates but it has enough for you to get a really good idea of how the program works and you can build a site to test it's capabilities.

This is a WYSIWYG program, and as John says, can be expanded using code snippets. Editing the code output puts you in the position of having to do that every time you make a change to the site, not what you want to do at all.

This program is very intuitive and I'm sure will be a breath of fresh air once you relearn your workflow for building websites.

If you do searches on this forum you will find almost every kind of help you could possibly ever need and if by chance, you can't find something, you can ask.

The people on this forum have an extremely quick response time for asked questions, generally within an hour or two. Few sites can claim that.

Give the trial a run and see what you think. As John says, it's ultimately up to you whether you should purchase or not as you know what you would be doing with the software and at what levels you need to achieve.

Hope this helps.

**ItsReallyCheryl** · 13 July 2010, 01:16 AM

I did have my client purchase the full program for me and I am enjoying it. I have no idea though as to how I would add a hit counter. Is it even possible? I have one but can't figure out how to add the code for it. I've tried in several places but it keeps popping up on the top of the page instead of the bottom, where I want it.
Thanks for any help anyone can give. This is a great program!

**steve.ledger** · 13 July 2010, 01:33 AM

All hit counters I have used are simply a placeholder object with the counter code inserted into the 'Replace with HTML code' area and positioned on the page exactly where they should appear.