Photo sliding Nav bar

[steve.ledger]

Im not exactly sure how to use the embedded tools? and im not looking at spending much more money after buying the program etc? thought there would of been an easier way

'Easy' is all relative to your experience. If you have very little to none, then you'll need to get some before you tackle things that are beyond your reach. Right now you have all the options provided by the application you already paid for, these are fine a lot of the time but of course are limited. If you need something which is not provided for by the program then you have to find a 'widget' from another vendor that can satisfy your needs, this will mostly cost a few dollars for the license to use it on your site. Using placeholders to embed third party widgets is covered in the Help file and in many threads in this and other Xara user forums.
If you can't find 'exactly' what you want, then you are left with the prospect finding a web programmer who can create the exact thing you need. These guys typically charge a lot more for bespoke widgets. There are always options, but many are not free.

[Southafrican]

Hi thanks for reply
I checked out the "nivo" slider? but how would i be able to get it into shapes of those small boxes like explained earlier? basicly if i could draw it
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|<[]-[]-[]-[]-[]>| ( < and > = arrows? ) and ( [] ) box`s which are pictures? but if one clicks them they are basicly a link which will send you to that page, so basicly the photos/boxes would slide according to
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'Easy' is all relative to your experience. If you have very little to none, then you'll need to get some before you tackle things that are beyond your reach. Right now you have all the options provided by the application you already paid for, these are fine a lot of the time but of course are limited. If you need something which is not provided for by the program then you have to find a 'widget' from another vendor that can satisfy your needs, this will mostly cost a few dollars for the license to use it on your site. Using placeholders to embed thrid party widgets is covered in the Help file and in many threads in this and other Xara user forums.
If you can't find 'exactly' what you want, then you are left with the prospect finding a web programmer who can create the exact thing you need. These guys typically charge a lot more for bespoke widgets. There are always options, but many are not free.

[Southafrican]

Since my picture didnt turn out right, i got another site which uses something like it - http://www.gumtree.co.za/ - if you check they have arrows on the sides and click able photos/links between the arrows and slides to get differnt/more pictures/links

[steve.ledger]

Unfortunately there is nothing like this supplied in the Designs Gallery with Xara Designer.
For this you would really need to find something on the web and try to use it.
There are some places such as Dynamic Drive who offer free scripts that can be used in Designer..

The Nivo Slider is (like the other slideshow widgets) 'wysiwyg', you cannot redesign them into other configurations. The allowable edits are described in the widget edit window, which is generally to just add your own images..

[Southafrican]

I actually just found one, http://www.shopizer.com/jquery-product-slider/ , but im not sure how to add it to xara? and then edit it in xara? is there extra programs which i would have to download?

[steve.ledger]

That would be well advanced work to embed that into a Xara Designer document I'm afraid.
Do you have any HTML knowledge?

[Southafrican]

not much, i have abit more then normal knowledge in .Lua tho.... any tips of ideas can do instead of that slider then? really need something like that..

[Southafrican]

thats why i got xara... thinking i wont need much HTML know how... and less limts then these web based site creators..

[actionit]

You could use something like what I have done on the annespencer.com.au website

[Southafrican]

Not exactly, cause i need those (image) links to scroll to sides etc so i can fit more into one space, aswel dont want it to show bigger version, so only small slide bar, like they use on iphones, on the app, or the apple site use to have them aswel, many sites use it, aswel as one of the links i posted earlier? :,( really wish i could get this working!