Gary Priester's Web Designer MX First Looks

[gwpriester]

Any other questions?

[BOB WISE]

Hi Gary, Will the new push feature work with the Ecwid e-commerce widget and let the page extend in length to accomodate the increases and decreases in the placeholder. If so this makes this new version easily worth the cost to those of us considering e-commerce.

Thanks, Bob Wise

[zaphodeist]

No questions - at the moment! - just a thank you for the run through ... always good

[steve.ledger]

Hi Gary, Will the new push feature work with the Ecwid e-commerce widget and let the page extend in length to accomodate the increases and decreases in the placeholder. If so this makes this new version easily worth the cost to those of us considering e-commerce.

Thanks, Bob Wise

The 'Push' feature allows you to add while designing and the page extends automatically (or objects below move down) in Web Designer.
This is not a dynamic page system that expands the page automatically if items are added after publishing.

[BOB WISE]

Thanks Sledger, for the speedy response -- looks like I need to figure out how the "Dynamic Page Tweaks" work.

[angelize]

I would like a little more info on the Automatic page resizing, as it seems to be AWOL in the help files.

• So if f I create a stretchy panel and then right click it and chose push I can have it automatically resize the page as it grows?
• Can I do this with a text box?
• And say I have my stretch panel in the center of the page do I set all the elements beneath it as fixed to keep their relative postions to the bottom of the page?
• If I have a stretch panel that stretches horizontally as well will that automatically push the page wider?

[Soquili]

Frances I believe you are referring to the new Push feature.

[angelize]

ah so it is in the footer section. Thanks Bill, that is what I was looking for. Curiously there is a section in "getting started labeled Automatic page resizing that is empty. I thought that is where I would find this.

Anyway I'll read through that section on push objects and hopefully that should answer my questions.

[daniels]

Any other questions?

Hi Gary,

Yes please! I'm trying out Xara Web Designer MX Premium, working on a website that has pages of different lengths. When I check the website in my browser, the short pages are centered on my screen (horizontally but also vertically) and the long pages (obviously) start at the top of the screen. But I want all of my pages to start there / at the same position so that the headers appear in the same place on each page. I can't find where I can change these settings, so I'd be very grateful if you could help me out.

Thanks, Sandra

[gwpriester]

Hello Sandra

Right click on the page then select Page Options.

Remove the check mark from [ ] All Pages in Website Are the Same Size.