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**ab29** · 25 November 2009, 08:03 PM

All depends on the nature of the site we're talking about. If this is a site built with a Xara product, which means one has a file .web or .xar, one can import it in Web Designer and use the Repeating Object function to make the change instantly into all the pages of the website in a few clicks. If this is a preexisting website not built with Xara, it will be difficult to do that.

**steve.ledger** · 25 November 2009, 08:12 PM

Originally Posted by ab29

If this is a preexisting website not built with Xara, it will be difficult to do that.

Actually more than difficult, impossible since Web Designer and Xtreme are not HTML editors and cannot import html pages.
Because this is a Web Designer/Xtreme forum we must discuss solutions which are relevant to working in those applications.
As already mentioned, external scripts can be used in either program by way of placeholders and the use of repeating objects makes it simple to have such a placeholder (containing the menu script) update to all pages in the .web or .xar file.

Please search the forums for threads discussing placeholders and repeating objects - this saves time and prevents multiple threads going over the same thing.

**ab29** · 25 November 2009, 08:42 PM

Originally Posted by sledger

Actually more than difficult, impossible since Web Designer and Xtreme are not HTML editors and cannot import html pages.

In the "import" menu, one can find the file type .html among plenty others. It may be an error.

**steve.ledger** · 25 November 2009, 09:07 PM

Have you tried this before you posted your reply ?

**covoxer** · 26 November 2009, 05:20 AM

Thres no errors or mistakes. There is HTML import option. But it is intended only to batch import all the images present on the page. No layout information or text is imported.

**ab29** · 26 November 2009, 08:39 AM

Well, what i mean by "it may be an error", is that it can induce a customer in error. While trying the evaluation version, one may think, without testing it, that it can import HTML, because it is in the import menu. That's what i was trying to say.

**steve.ledger** · 26 November 2009, 08:54 AM

One should always test before making an evaluation no?

Besides, Web Designer is not advertised as a HTML editor, infact it's explicily noted that is is not.

http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=36425
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dczbrfsq_116g7259dqt

And is mentioned in the help file under 'Import and Export Supported File Formats'

.HTM Graphics on HTML pages