Our New Site using: Xara Web Designer 10 Premium Supersite with XT-CMS 1.9

[KarenC]

Just wanted to post the new website I'm working on.

Its 96% done and will be "live" October 28th. Working on tweaking the "speed"...especially with the home page picture widget.

The test url is here:
http://new.clintonhealth.org


it will be replacing the "current" website (made with FrontPage 2000) http://www.clintonhealth.org
and will switch over to that url on the 28th.


Its designed with Xara Web Designer 10 Premium and XT-CMS 1.9. I based some of the cool ideas from Xara's site here: http://www.webdesigner-v10-demosite...._page_products

The site is a "super-site" which is made from 1 Xara file with several pages in it, and the CMS template is made of 1 Xara file with 2 pages in it. NOTE: both Xara files also include a variant for cellphones.

We have approximately 51 pages of content, and there was no way we were going to try to build all those individual pages. Thank goodness there was a CMS program that works with Xara!

So all the bells & whistles part -- like the home page and all the Services & Programs' own main pages is just using Xara, as soon as you click on actual topic (example: Go to BUSINESSES then click on Public Water Systems) you are now looking thru the XT-CMS program. Very cool!

We using Windows IIS 7.0 and hosting on own website.

We're very happy with both software applications (Xara and XT-CMS).

If you have any questions, feel free to ask!


(Special shout-out to Tom at XT-CMS for ALL his patience and tweaking, and to Egg, Gary, and Acorn, at Xara for helping me out -- teaching a "newbie")

Karen

[gwpriester]

Hi Karen

I like it. Congratulations!

Please give your pages a title (Website Properties > Page > Page Title. Right now your home page in the browser tab says Home. Also give each page a unique title and add page descriptions as well as a general overall description in the Website tab.

[KarenC]

Thank you very much Gary

Yes that's what I have left to do is the fine-tuning. Page title, meta tags, (meta tags on the CMS side too), just tweaking here and there. OF course I haven't initiated any web crawling as I don't want it to crawl on the test url. Plus I have not put the "search this page" in yet for that same reason.

If you guys figure out a way to be able to open something in a new tab that would be great (on that home page photo widget thingy).

If its going to a topic in the CMS then opening in "self" is good, but when I have a flyer like the rabies clinics which is a pdf file, I would like that to open up in a new tab for the user, so they don't close the whole website when they are done reading that flyer.

Something else, if I do that photo optimization thing, what do I put the size at? Is it 192?

Karen

[Acorn]

that home page photo widget thingy

Karen, try this in the image's link:

javascript:void(window.open("http://www.clintonhealth.org/BulletinsPress/PR09152015.pdf", "_blank" ));

When it is the live site, you can drop the http://www.clintonhealth.org/ part; it will probably end up as javascript:void(window.open("index_htm_files/BulletinsPress/PR09152015.pdf", "_blank" ));

Acorn

[Acorn]

Karen, I also like the Google translate touch,
Acorn

[KarenC]

Karen, I also like the Google translate touch,
Acorn

Thank you Acorn

I will also try the code you suggested to see if that will open the page off the photo in a new tab, when I get to work tomorrow.
I wonder why they didn't enable that option like all the other links?

Karen

[Albacore]

The way I have my Chrome set up your page doesn't load. Works well with Edge fairly quickly but the slides take longer to appear. Thought it might be Add-block but no it must be as Gary stated "#xl_xr_page_home" is causing the problem.

[KarenC]

Hmmm Albacore,
The "#xl_xr_page_home page names shouldn't affect if its blocked, must be something in your Chrome? Chrome on my Samsung and from the destktop and tablet works great.

Karen

[KarenC]

Oh yeah....can you guys give advice on the photo optimization tool? what do I set it to in the settings (ex: for the photo widget thing).... 192?

Thank you,

[nazf355]

Oh yeah....can you guys give advice on the photo optimization tool? what do I set it to in the settings (ex: for the photo widget thing).... 192?

Thank you,

My advice is to optimise all your images before you put them into XWD, preferably using Adobe Photoshop/Elements