Re: Web Designer 10 Released
Kate, just had a look at the samples on my Android phone. Way cool on the responsive part and on the transitions.
Well done. Mike
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Quick question.
If you import a WD9 website into V. 10, can you create different sized variants without having to rebuild it from scratch in V. 10?
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Yes, I did a quick & dirty test. There is obviously a bit of shifting about of objects to do but it's so much easier and quicker than doing a redirect and creating the variants from scratch on different urls
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first thought......... not quite good enough, almost but not.
Does not rival Adobe Muse or WordPress, not even close, but for the upgrade price who can afford not to.
And so I will upgrade and in doing so continue to be a Xara product user, simply because.... i have a few designs now, working on two more at the moment and find XWD9P very good at what it does, particlularly as i come from a CorelDraw background and am not a code geek (yet). X for me does not have the WOW factor that makes me jump up and down going, yeah Yeah YEAH, gimme, Gimme, GIMME..... unfortunatley. Its more a - may as well upgrade type of Microsoft Office type of thing, feeling more like a chore than something to look forward to. Already, even before upgrading I am hoping that in the Next upgrade Xara brings us includes an integrated CMS option.
I would have also hoped for a lot more (R) templates included, a Lot LOT MORE, im sure there will be an add on option later. Responsive Design - should it be that hard, take that much more time to create sites? I'm not so sure the client wants it that much that it will cost them 2 or 3 times more! They do though want to update their own sites, theres that CMS sad face again.
Already worried about the resource of memory and site uploading errors......... so i do hope this has been thoroughly tested to prevent recent issues experienced by many in XWD9P
Supersites are interesting, a nice new feature.
Get the feeling this upgrade is more to meet upgrade deadline dates than to meet the demands of the website designer.
Let's Sum Up! There is a lot to like in Web Designer 10.............. Part 2 will be even better.
I hope it grows on me as well as with me.
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Since it was listed last in Kate post, I'll post a link to my First Look here http://xaraxone.magix.net/xwd10/
Basically it boils down to this. As nice as it might be to to have one site work in all sizes, they don't. And then there's the question of bandwidth. All of those photos and slide shows and YouTube videos and other stuff can be really slow to load, even on a fast mobile network. Buttons that look great on a full size browser are impossible to see on a smart phone.
So the approach Xara has taken makes a lot of sense!
Xara does not build the variant site for you. It resizes the page to a good mobile site size, or you can create your own, it puts all the content from your full size site onto the page and then you resize and edit the material to make it work best on a small screen.
Does this take a lot of extra work? Yes. Is it worth it? Absolutely, if you are really serious about creating the best site for each device.
If you look at my review on a tablet, you get the best of both. In portrait, you see the mobile variant, if you rotate the site to landscape, you get the full size browser version.
I'm really excited about WD10 Premium.
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This all sounds great... but... the page is way too big for my desktop monitor. The screen resolution is set for 1024 x 768, on a 21 inch monitor. After 2 clicks of the - button on my Firefox browser it reduces enough to fit. That worries me - if the page won't even fit on a screen that measures almost 17 inches wide... Am I missing something? And please don't tell me to use higher resolution... my 73 year old eyes are straining as it is. Thanks. Ed
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Gary thanks for the first look review, it is great as always
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This is a huge upgrade! Totally impressed by the new RWD features as well as supersites, transitions, smart shapes Wow! Big step forward. Congrats to all Xara team :)
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TXAlba
Does not rival Adobe Muse
To me the upgrade seems quite impressive and makes Web Designer an even more powerful program. I don't really know Muse and I would like to know in what areas Web Designer does not rival it, so could you expand on that?