Hello, I've never really got up to speed with these new technologies of web creation. I just dabble anyway. Not a pro in the least. I'm working on a family business website and thought XARA web designer seemed easier to use for maintaining and updating the site.

I want to create two gradients on the side of a picture to give it a soft look. Check out my site, www.jcroofingca.com at the header image for what I mean.

I used photoshop to make those. and I found it easy to make the gradients symmetrical. In using XARA, what would be the best way to approach this? I'm planning on having the images be random everytime the page loads as well.

Should I just save the images with the pre-gradient already there (seems initially easier, but more work when I update the images with new business projects), or is there a quicker more efficient way of doing this using XARA?

Thanks for reading, appreciate it

John