What I'd like to see in Web Designer

**covoxer** · 05 March 2009, 03:42 PM

Originally Posted by dogbertbh

I would like to have my .web file upload to the ftp site along with the rest of the site.

Place your web file inside the "files" folder (named like "index_htm_files" that is createl alongside the exported index.htm file for example) and it will be upload with all the other files.

**dogbertbh** · 05 March 2009, 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by covoxer

Place your web file inside the "files" folder (named like "index_htm_files" that is createl alongside the exported index.htm file for example) and it will be upload with all the other files.

THIS is why I love Xara.

That's right - I said it

Thanks John!!

**jon spain** · 05 March 2009, 05:43 PM

Being able to import existing websites would be good, or is that already there?

**Spinny** · 05 March 2009, 05:54 PM

Originally Posted by jon spain

Being able to import existing websites would be good, or is that already there?

I don't believe you'll find a WYSIWYG web designer that could do that, anywhere. The problem of parsing and translating arbitrary HTML/CSS code into the local proprietary format used by all such programs is, I believe, well nigh unsolvable--at least at the affordable level.

**Charles Moir** · 05 March 2009, 05:56 PM

Being able to import existing websites is close to impossible I'm afraid. In order to do that we'd have to interpret the HTML, CSS, Javascript and create a layout that is an exact replication of what a web browser does. In effect that IS a Web browser. And since the likes of Microsoft, Netscape/Mozillla (Firefox), Opera have been struggling to produce a reliable or compatible browsers for 10 years or more, this is just not practical.

So while it would be truly great to be able to load existing websites and edit them, I can't see it happening in the foreseeable future.

**nickydude** · 05 March 2009, 06:18 PM

For XWD to read the page size folder "C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Web Designer\Templates\ENG" on startup so any page size templates we add will be available in the New menu and the drop down of the page properties.

**nickydude** · 05 March 2009, 06:22 PM

Also the option to rename the folders in the Designs Gallery, so instead of something like this: "C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Web Designer\Templates\ENG" we could rename it to "Page Size Templates".

**Charles Moir** · 05 March 2009, 06:32 PM

You should not need to add the templates to the gallery. Just Save as template and it will appear in your template list so that it's no under File -> New -> menu options.

Slight bug means that you have to give it a .xar extension and not the usual .web extension. i.e. save it with a specific name like mytemplate.xar

That will be fixed in an update, but saving with .xar works for now.

**ss-kalm** · 06 March 2009, 12:19 AM

Originally Posted by nickydude

Also the option to rename the folders in the Designs Gallery, so instead of something like this: "C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Web Designer\Templates\ENG" we could rename it to "Page Size Templates".

They can be renamed:

Navigate to the relevant folder, open the Xarainfo folder and edit the xaraclip.txt file with a standard text editor ...

Edit the #DESCRIPTION: field to suit ......

**jon spain** · 06 March 2009, 08:30 AM

Yeah, it weas a bit much to expect but I'm grateful for the speed and courtesy with which my request was handled, awesome, I'll look at it anyway as an alternative to NOF