Website for Kitchen worktops client

**Cloud** · 16 June 2019, 02:45 PM

As Paul says, the site was created in WordPress. There might be a way to do this with xara but not used it for a while. One of the benefits of WordPress is that one doesn't have to think too much about responsiveness, its mostly handled by the theme.

**behzad** · 16 June 2019, 11:12 PM

As always nice work, but no offence to you, I am talking overall. Websites are all looking the same, columns and rows due to responsiveness. I prefer Xara, that way I can design as I wish for the mobile version.

**pauland** · 16 June 2019, 11:20 PM

Originally Posted by behzad

As always nice work, but no offence to you, I am talking overall. Websites are all looking the same, columns and rows due to responsiveness. I prefer Xara, that way I can design as I wish for the mobile version.

SITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Cough.. ;-)

Yes, sites do look similar, but that says more about the web designer than using Wordpress or Xara.

https://www.creativebloq.com/web-des...press-11121165

**behzad** · 17 June 2019, 01:59 AM

I think again not referring to this case, overall designers are no longer designers and have limited their creativity by using templates and technology that has driven speed over creativity to deliver for the budget. I get it, when a client does not have enough money, most tend to resort to templates and you see examples galore. I mean look at DIV and you can see that every site is a sister or a brother of another LOL. Paul, no need to cut and paste my (Site under construction) to glorify yourself over my comments. Have a look at a few websites I did in the xara gallery. You have taken my comment which was a general one and thrown it at my face and made it a personal message. Really sad that you do that.

**pauland** · 17 June 2019, 07:21 AM

Originally Posted by behzad

I think again not referring to this case, overall designers are no longer designers and have limited their creativity by using templates and technology that has driven speed over creativity to deliver for the budget. I get it, when a client does not have enough money, most tend to resort to templates and you see examples galore. I mean look at DIV and you can see that every site is a sister or a brother of another LOL. Paul, no need to cut and paste my (Site under construction) to glorify yourself over my comments. Have a look at a few websites I did in the xara gallery. You have taken my comment which was a general one and thrown it at my face and made it a personal message. Really sad that you do that.

Behzad, you really need to kick that "under construction" into touch. It's been there for a very long time and it's one of those things that should never be on any website. I only put it there to motivate you to remove it and a sense of irony about how Xara gives you freedom.

The frameworks (such as bootstrap) can incline people to create "me too" websites and the proliferation of wordpress templates make that easier, as you say.

I would argue that Xara is far from immune from that. Back in the day people used to talk about Xara web design and never mention the template sites supplied by Xara. These days people are always complaining if they lose access to those templates and so I don't see that much difference between Xara and Wordpress with regard to boilerplate websites.

You can produce "different" high-design websites using Wordpress, just as you can with Xara, it's a question of the time we put into it and the skill that we have. I can't really claim to have any website produced by me that isn't a "me too" site at heart, though I've never used a template to make one.

I hope your annoyance with me doesn't last too long and that energy is channelled into more development and the removal of the "under construction" that should never, ever be used.

Paul