Re: Please show me a great webpage made with xara.
First of all the tools you you use make little difference to whether the end-product is a good website or not. It's the person using the tool that determines whether it's a great website or not.Originally Posted by rsrsrs
Don't blame Xara for bad designs and don't mention Wordpress because a website that uses it has a good design.
Just because you don't wish to use Xara to make websites because it is adaptive and not responsive it's not cool to disparage others that do.
I don't use Xara for websites, but I think I understand why people do.
The user base of Xara is predominately hobbyist, with some semi-professionals and a handful of professionals. There are a lot of professionals in non-design fields that use Xara to promote themselves.
The Xara user base likes it because of all or any of these reasons:
- it's a one-stop shop
- they like the price
- they find it easy to use
- they like the user community
- they used Xara for artwork and just extended that to web pages
- they are used to Xara and can't be bothered with learning new software
- they don't want to learn to use multiple programs and then integrate everything into a single web builder.
- they want to design free-form rather than through templates that need CSS/HTML tweaks
- they are happy with the Xara template library and don't want to create unique designs
- they like the ease of FTP transfer
- they like the hosting
- they don't need dynamic web pages designed through templates.
- their sites are static.
So, I understand it.
I don't use it because I too prefer responsive sites and like to assemble web pages not design them free-form.
Please do knock people who do use the software, there are plenty of reason why they do and reasons why we don't. I think we know there are a lot of reasons not to use Xara, but if these aren't of concern to anyone, they can be happy.
Xara software is a compromise.
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