My Big Wish List for Xara Web Designer 9

Xara Web Designer 9 Wish List


Seamless Pattern Creation Tool:

Having the fill gallery textures is great but would be nice to create your own seamless patterns for use as page backgrounds.

Tool to create Vector abstract lines:

see examples:

Abstract Lines
abstract colorful ribbon

Reverse Numbering

This one is a bit harder to explain and I might have to embed video to show what I mean. Basically it would allow you to set a number for page like the number "1" for your first article you write and then when you create a new page i.e. you duplicate that original page "1" it will automatically create a page "2" link and automatically reverse the links so that your most recent article number 2 will be set to link to number "1" link and link number "2" would link to the older article. It would function more so like a blog in regards to posting new articles.


Email Form Builder :

Creating a web form in Xara would be exciting!

Mobile Website Templates

With auto generated code to detect screen size and adjust accordingly i.e. to switch between mobile site and desktop site

Smart Access Panel: (Speeds Up Workflow)

A panel that has up to 7 tools shown that you can access at any given time via short cut key for frequently used options that you can't remember the short cut keys for. This would be very useful for newbies and veterans on Xara program. The fact is that some short cuts you will not remember their is just too many options and this would be useful for those option you can't remember.

Categorize Pages via Page and Layer Gallery:(improves organization)

For example be able to create a folder called "product a" and place all pages that are related to "product a" in that folder. If you had pages related to "news" place them in a folder called "news". Would be useful when you have a lot of pages to manage.

Better link to page management:

If you have a 30 page document and try to link to a page via link tab you have to scroll through 30 options imagine if that was 50 or 60 pages it would get even more tedious. Add search function to search for specific pages and then pick link from results shown.

Include new fonts

With the new font embed feature would be nice to have some new fonts available


Improve Navigation Menu (make your sub-menus look like they are suppose to be their)

Current navigation menu makes these really weird grey small boxes for sub-menus. The sub-menus should match the standard part of menu. Also when you create custom menu the sub-menus should match. I know the old method of using mouse-over states allow you to have proper sub-menu but I would like to see the automated menu via navigation bar editing properties do this automatically.


What features would all like to see in version 9 of xara web designer?

can I add a small one in - I would like to be able to slide layers in from any point on the screen not just top,bottom,left & right of screen :-) thank you

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Originally Posted by trukkerz

can I add a small one in - I would like to be able to slide layers in from any point on the screen not just top,bottom,left & right of screen :-) thank you

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You are awesome!!! I've been wanting that feature too! Basically be able to set the starting point of the slide in effect is what you mean right? For example if you had an object that was in center of screen that has a mouse-over effect you would want it to start where that object is at on screen rather than at the edge of the screen.

yh thats it - it would make it possible to make some awesome effects - lets hope eh ??

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Originally Posted by trukkerz

yh thats it - it would make it possible to make some awesome effects - lets hope eh ??

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Yeah I'm hoping for that it would allow countless number of effects. Also would be nice if the effects could be repeated for the special effects.... I'm not sure if any one else has tried but if I set an element to repeat on all pages and it has a special mouse-over effect such as slide-in it, fade-in and so on it doesn't repeat the special effect it goes back to a basic effect on all other pages except for the page the original element was on.

Auto hypenation. This would be more for DTP than web design but it could be helpful for web design as well.

Smart Tables - vital for any DTP product.

Acorn

In response to champ when you apply same attributes to a vector/picture the pop up and alt tags don't get applied also grammar check for repeat words and spacing for dyslexiiks like me :D I write in word in word> export note pad > DP8 to rule out mistakes

scruffy

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Originally Posted by scruffy.thedog

In response to champ when you apply same attributes to a vector/picture the pop up and alt tags don't get applied also grammar check for repeat words and spacing for dyslexiiks like me :D I write in word in word> export note pad > DP8 to rule out mistakes

scruffy

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That would be nice!

I would love to see a 'Mega Menu' option in the navbar creation function as my site is much too big to really cope with a standard navbar www.lookinuk.com it has just over 180 pages. Also to improve export functionality as I had to split my site into two as it couldn't cope during the export (just stopped, too many pages) when I got two thirds of the development, activities and attractions sub menu sections, under the 'Entertainment' menu, had to be created as a separate site and then dropped back in after.

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Originally Posted by champ

Xara Web Designer 9 Wish List

Seamless Pattern Creation Tool:

Having the fill gallery textures is great but would be nice to create your own seamless patterns for use as page backgrounds.

Tool to create Vector abstract lines:

see examples:

Abstract Lines
abstract colorful ribbon

Reverse Numbering

This one is a bit harder to explain and I might have to embed video to show what I mean. Basically it would allow you to set a number for page like the number "1" for your first article you write and then when you create a new page i.e. you duplicate that original page "1" it will automatically create a page "2" link and automatically reverse the links so that your most recent article number 2 will be set to link to number "1" link and link number "2" would link to the older article. It would function more so like a blog in regards to posting new articles.


Email Form Builder :

Creating a web form in Xara would be exciting!

Mobile Website Templates

With auto generated code to detect screen size and adjust accordingly i.e. to switch between mobile site and desktop site

Smart Access Panel: (Speeds Up Workflow)

A panel that has up to 7 tools shown that you can access at any given time via short cut key for frequently used options that you can't remember the short cut keys for. This would be very useful for newbies and veterans on Xara program. The fact is that some short cuts you will not remember their is just too many options and this would be useful for those option you can't remember.

Categorize Pages via Page and Layer Gallery:(improves organization)

For example be able to create a folder called "product a" and place all pages that are related to "product a" in that folder. If you had pages related to "news" place them in a folder called "news". Would be useful when you have a lot of pages to manage.

Better link to page management:

If you have a 30 page document and try to link to a page via link tab you have to scroll through 30 options imagine if that was 50 or 60 pages it would get even more tedious. Add search function to search for specific pages and then pick link from results shown.

Include new fonts

With the new font embed feature would be nice to have some new fonts available


Improve Navigation Menu (make your sub-menus look like they are suppose to be their)

Current navigation menu makes these really weird grey small boxes for sub-menus. The sub-menus should match the standard part of menu. Also when you create custom menu the sub-menus should match. I know the old method of using mouse-over states allow you to have proper sub-menu but I would like to see the automated menu via navigation bar editing properties do this automatically.


What features would all like to see in version 9 of xara web designer?

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Originally Posted by champ

Improve Navigation Menu (make your sub-menus look like they are suppose to be their)

Current navigation menu makes these really weird grey small boxes for sub-menus. The sub-menus should match the standard part of menu. Also when you create custom menu the sub-menus should match. I know the old method of using mouse-over states allow you to have proper sub-menu but I would like to see the automated menu via navigation bar editing properties do this automatically.

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This is already possible - you can customise the sub menus on a nav bar to be whatever colour you want. It's just grey is the default colour, expecting that you will change the colours to suit your design

Double click on the nav bar in Web Designer to open the Nav Bar Properties dialog and click Menu Styles.

This dialog changes the colours for ONLY the sub menus, so customise the colours, apply borders, spaceing, transparency and all other settings for them here.

Click OK to both open dialogs and preview the page.

It would be nice to be able to extend a graphic from the page workspace onto the page background directly, without jumping through all the hoops that Steve has posted a few tutorials on.
Quite confusing, to be honest.
What I'm talking about are full width background elements.

How about a photo wizard without the little box in it - the box would only come up if you clicked on it? That way you could see the complete photo without the box and also be able to zoom in for more detail. - jb

Similar to this?
► http://xara-users.info/demos/xu-oomer/

My wish would be to create full width headers and footers without tweaks.

The only thing which comes to mind and which cannot be achieved through other means is dynamic pages which change length according to the content; so that I can use something like ecwid and have the pages change length.

If the software could remember the local folder where the project concerned last exported its HTML to that would be great (or at least have that option. It would go nicely with the FTP settings).

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Originally Posted by skech

The only thing which comes to mind and which cannot be achieved through other means is dynamic pages which change length according to the content; so that I can use something like ecwid and have the pages change length.

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If the software could remember the local folder where the project concerned last exported its HTML to that would be great (or at least have that option. It would go nicely with the FTP settings).

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Originally Posted by Jimi King

If the software could remember the local folder where the project concerned last exported its HTML to that would be great (or at least have that option. It would go nicely with the FTP settings).

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+1
So many times I almost overwrote other sites when exporting.

As Champ said

"Reverse Numbering

This one is a bit harder to explain and I might have to embed video to show what I mean. Basically it would allow you to set a number for page like the number "1" for your first article you write and then when you create a new page i.e. you duplicate that original page "1" it will automatically create a page "2" link and automatically reverse the links so that your most recent article number 2 will be set to link to number "1" link and link number "2" would link to the older article. It would function more so like a blog in regards to posting new articles."

it would be very very useful

bye

Too late, WD9 has already been released. You'll have to ask for pagination to be included in version 10 (2014) :D

oppsss
sorry

:o