Just Launched - Xara Web Designer 11

[katemoir]

Web Designer 11 has landed!

You can find an overview on our website @ http://www.xara.com/web-designer/whats-new/ and detailed info in the release notes @ http://www.xara.com/webdesigner/notes but the highlights are:

• Stickies – objects that stick in place as the page scrolls
• Stretchy background images that fill the browser width
• New animation effects available on mouseover, on click or on reveal
• Text enhancements including auto-correction (abbreviation expansion)
• This bullet point has BETA warnings all over it, but we think you’ll want to try it! cloud.xara introduces collaborative editing from anywhere on any device (yes, even MACs)
• Share & Sync your files via Dropbox or Google Drive

Gary Priester has had huge fun trying out the new animation effects and sticky objects in his First Look on the Xara Xone @ http://xaraxone.magix.net/WD11/. Plus we have a couple of demo sites @ http://www.xara.com/web-designer-examples/site1/ and http://www.xara.com/web-designer-examples/site2/ and for that matter the cloud.xara intro notes @ http://content.ixara.com/intro are a good demo of Stickies. Enjoy!

[pauland]

Kate, it looks fantastic. I'd say it was a no-brainer upgrade for anyone who owns an existing version of Web Designer (unless they want to wait for the full-blown Designer Pro). It's a great price point for the newcomer to Xara that want a great web design program.

Congratulations to the Team.

A special mention for Gary and his example sites and the first look. Great job Gary. At last a very modern-looking website example with a really nice mobile adaptation.

Good job guys.

[ Gosh that arrived out of the blue! ]

[gwpriester]

I had a ton of fun putting the First Look together and I think I just scratched the surface of what you can do with the new features. I look forward to seeing how others use the new features.

[Egg Bramhill]

In Xara Designer Pro X 10 if I alter the colour, size, or font of say some Normal Text style then go to the dropdown menu (which shows a + sign after the style name to indicate a change of style) and click Update Style, all text takes the new attribute and the + sign disappears.

In Web Designer 11 Premium (trial Version) clicking Update Normal text to Match changes the text to the new attribute but the + sign remains against the style name. Is this the correct behaviour?

[bb2]

Thanks for spotting this. Its been logged for investigation

[dutchim]

Really liking the new Web Animation feature added... But why does it use a square box as trigger point and not the actual shape of the selected item?

This seems to limit the functionality of this cool feature when used on irregular and/or overlapping shapes.


Hope I wasn't too quick with complaining?! I'm just thrilled Xara came out with a new product

[toejam]

Can you tell me if the new version has provided a rotating banner widget? There was a lot of discussion back in Jan-Feb regarding how to incorporate a rotating banner with Xara. The punch line was that there were work-arounds, but, not an integrated method of creating rotating banners. Would love to upgrade to the new X11, but, would like to have a simple rotating banner widget included in the product.

[steve.ledger]

If you mean a spinning banner, then no. But the new version is full of Web Animations which you can apply to any element.

[gracehjs]

Has anyone tried looking at Gary's demo on a tablet? I am on holiday with only my Dell Venue 8 pro. I don't have a mouse, so I can't figure out how to see the animations. One tap does nothing, double tap enlarges the page and swipes move the page

[steve.ledger]

Only Click/Touch animations are supported on mobile devices.
There's a tab in the Web Animation dialogue for setting Click/Touch animations.
So if Gary didn't use any of these, you'll not suffer them on a mobile device