Responsive Web Design using Xara

[rafsgrafx]

Very interesting comments on RWD! It's something I've been reading much about lately and gathering information. I think Xara is fantastic; I love using it but as Skech and Pauland well put it, the trend leans towards mobility and portability. We see its popularity growing in leaps and bounds among users from the youngest generation up to the baby boomers. Opensource RWD apps, plugins and software are becoming more readily available. These also have become more user friendly. The days of "pay no attention to the man behind the black curtain" are becoming a thing of the past. There is still some coding to fiddle around with but nothing tlike days past when you HAD to go to a web guru to produce a simple web site.

Maybe wishful thinking but I think Xara will come up with some sort of middle ground solution towards RWD. I've worked with Xara from its debut. I'd hate to give up such a great graphics software I enjoy so much.

[scruffy.thedog]

It would be nice if xara would give a hint of their R+D as to whether RWD or cms is in the pipeline or i see a lot of the web community here jumping ship before the next upgrade unless a carrot is dangled. Comments Xara?

[Cloud]

Last week a client asked for a responsive website and I decided on wordpress; but how to show the client how the site will work (on a desktop anyway) so I created the site (a prototype if you will) in webdesigner - all 9 pages of it with full links etc and all the content in a couple of hours, showed it to him, he loved it and the wordpress guy had something to reference to create the website.

Xara webdesigner does need some features but for the first time I realised how well it works as a prototyping tool, designers all over the world are using static photoshop images to show to clients.... Xara are really missing out on a trick here, I know it says the software is good for prototyping but they need to get in contact with professional web designers who are completely ignorant of it's offering.