Oh quit your whimpering, live with it!
JK
OK, you're not the first to ask about this.
Thing is, Xara Web Designer is not using your images, it's using copies. Remember it's roots are a vector image application. Your bitmap (photos) are actually bitmap fills in vector bounding boxes which Web Designer exports and names automatically.
Anyway, that's a technicality.
You can use original image names in one of two ways. The old way or the new way.
The old way is you use a placeholder for your image. Not so good as the new way.
The new way is to name it via the 'Names..' dialogue..
Here's how;
Import your photo. Place it on the page.
Right-click it and choose 'Names...'
In the box that popups up, enter filename="wotevayouwant" and press 'Add' (DON'T ADD A FILE EXTENSION!! The export filter will do this.)
But, sometimes the export filter will determine that .png might be best even if you don't want this, so to force JPG, open Web Properties>>Image and in Web Image type set it to 'JPEG (Best for photos) and choose the IQ (85 is best).
Yes yes, but remember you should be using the ALT attribute and possibly even the TITLE attribute anyway... This is probably more important for SEO.When it comes to SEO, using "logical" names for binary files helps the spiders negotiate relevance, since it cannot "read" a jpg, etc like it can text.
You can do this in Web Properties>>Image
Hope that helps and cheers you up
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