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To date, I have only light experience with website design. I expect that to change in very short order, given this amazing new tool called Xara Web Designer.
How adequate are the three standard page sizes that are offered at 'Options > Page Size' for quality website development?640pix wide (VGA)Thanks for your experienced feedback.
760pix wide (SVGA) « not 800?
955pix wide (XGA) « not 1024?
Hi Curtis,
The sizes offered allow for the scrollbar on the right side of a browser window.
Page sizes vary alot on the web but those offered are very common.
As I found out the hard way. :)Quote:
The sizes offered allow for the scrollbar on the right side of a browser window.
It seems that the 640pix width (VGA) would not allow for a vertical scroll bar ... ?
I note, by the way, that the Xara.com website is about 940pix wide.
The 955 is a good compromise.
The stats across my website show less than 5% of people use under 1024x768 resolution.
The 640 pixel width is common on the web. I don't think allowance for scrollbar is included because a 640 x 480 screen width has not been common since Windows 3.0. Windows 95 defaulted to 800 x 600.
I believe that Xara has a 3rd party company create their website.
Xara Group Ltd has a small group of employees and they are hard pressed to create excellent software. I can see why they would hire another company to maintain their website. :)
Although my screen resolution is 1280x1024, my browser window invariably occupies only part of that real estate. I think the 955 option might be just about right for what I have in mind. At least, I think the Xara site is a comfortable size.
Am I correct in assuming that there is no need to leave any whitespace/margin around the xWD pages when laying out a design? If I were doing printed matter, for example, it would be important to allow for printing limitations, binding, etc.
I know in XX4 the website went right to the edge of the 'paper' with no worries.Quote:
Originally Posted by cursor
Curtis it has been a long time since I had anything professionally printed but I do not recall having to compensate for binding. The printer used my word document without any changes.
I use 1040, 780 and 480 variants. Seems to work very well in test.
Again, this is a very old thread and Xara has moved on since it was started.Quote:
Originally Posted by ArchMed1
Xara now offers a responsive approach with a Main site and any number of Variants.
Many initially chose one Main and two smaller Variants but the overhead for maintenance grows dramatically with each added Variant.
Then Xara came up with Scale to fit Width.
Most now concur a Main and a single Variant is sufficient - xaratempalates.com has opted for this and Michel designs hundreds of templates and his testing is quite rigorous.
Months ago Xara hinted at a different approach to website delivery but nothing has emerged.
One change would be a positive step - that of delivering a Conventional Main and a Scrolling (Supersite) variant (or the observe) as a site can only currently be one or the other.
Other than crafted both views separately and JavaScript to detect and switch on viewport change, does anyone have any developed solutions?
Acorn