upgrade of web designer 5 to 7

[ShapeShifter]

No no no, you misunderstand me.
First, yes - there was a Web Designer 6 last year.
Now, in 2011 there's a version 7, but this time - two editions.
Web Designer 7 Premium is the 'upgrade' path for previous WD owners, WD7 (lite) is not intended as an upgrade path (it's not even available as an upgrade). It's intended for first time 'tinkerers'. Probably useful as a low cost lite collaboration tool for working with clients and so on.
Web Designer 7 Premium has so much more than WD5 and 6 did. It more closely resembles Xara Xtreme (not Pro) but with all the web features and additional graphics tools that version 5 and 6 didn't have.