Overall I like your site and think you did a good job. However, I agree with the other member that it is very hard to read the navbar. The issue is there are 2 lines of text on the buttons in the Satin Sheen Horizontal navbar you used. The background one is set slightly lower than the front line to give a shadow, or embossed effect, as you say. 3 things you can do...
1 - Use your text tool and highlight the text on the navbar one button at a time( don't ungroup or modify the navbar in anyway - when the navbar is as it coems from the design gallery highlighting the text lets you recolor that top/front line ). Once it is highlighted go down to the bottom left and click on the color pallete/box. You have 2 options to "cheat" and make the shadow across the bottom go away...
A - The local fill color is the darker top line of text. If you want the text to be dark then select the local line color and make it the same color as the dark line of text( fill color ). This will add a line around the text which should cover the background text( increase/decrease line width to get the desired effect ). Makes it look like BOLD text.
B - You can also choose to set the fill color to the light background color( white )which gives it a bold text look in white without any lines added. IMO lighter text on such a dark navbar background looks best but clearly your call. Maybe you could experiment with different shades of gray and see how it looks?
NOTE - doing A or B means that on mouse-over( if there is a different layer that shows - disabled on your site right now ) you will see a slight jump because the text will not be the exact same size anymore. Unfortunately this is the draw back of this easy cheat "IF" you will have a mouse-over effect. Seeing as you don't this cheat will work.
2 - You can ungroup the navbar and then each individual navbar tab/button and remove that 2nd line but it requires editing both the mouse-off and mouse-over layers. It is a pain to do it and you need to do so in the right sequence or when you are done and regroup the navbar it pulls the mouse-over layer to the front. Xara made an error in not allowing for easier editing of these navbars IMO.
3 - Your other option is to use a different navbar. Trader Horizontal is very, very, similar with the only real difference being round ends vs square w/ rounded corners on the one you used. The text however is just one line( i.e. no shadow/embossed effect ). Try swapping to that navbar and see if it will work for you visually.
Hope this helps. It is nice having navbars as part of Xara but like so many of these extras( the widgets, form builders, social media buttons, etc... )they either don't work well without tweaks and tricks being applied or you can't do much with them beyond what Xara presets them to do. So much time and effort is needed to make these things work right or to edit them( if you even can )that it isn't worth it most of the time. That is why I am keeping Webstyle4 and using it to make my navbars. Much more control over making them.
Good luck.
PS - FWIW your site is taking forever to open for me today.
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