New Wide Style Web Themes

[Boy]

You can make wide websites in WD premium by changing page size settings. I was only talking about some new templates that Xara devs had made. I am pretty sure that in the near future they will be made available to owners of WD Premium as well.

[jyoung]

So it appears that one can only get those wide templates, is to get the pro 11 software? I am looking at the web 11 premium trial and those templates are not even on the online content. It would sure be nice to see everything that is in the Pro version. Obviously there is more than what shows on the "Compare" page.

[gwpriester]

If you want to create a wide page, simply make your page wider. You can make the page as wide as you wish.

To add to the effect, make your page color and the pasteboard color the same.

Uncheck Clip to Edges (Web Properties > Website) and objects can extend off the page as long as part of the object touches the page.

[jyoung]

Thanks Gary. Will see how that works.

[madmonkfish]

It's a shame the wide templates aren't in WDP11... but they're pretty easy to make

Stretch image is your friend... and adding fx to items (etc) is a mere mouse-click away.

I made a 'wide-ish' site recently for a client and it was fairly painless (having said that, I still need to go back and make the mobile variant - but they wanted to go live without it).

From a design POV, these new style sites follow a few basic design principles (some of which I ignored for my last client, LOL!)... but they're actually quite formulaic.