Position on Page / Footer

I have recently downloaded the trial of Xara Web Designer Premium, to see if it can replace Adobe Muse, which has been discontinued.

I have created a set of objects that I want to be the footer of the page. Looking for help online suggests that in version 8 of the software there was a right-click menu option called "Position on Page", and within that, an option to select footer, which effectively pinned the objects to the bottom of the page, meaning that they would move down as the page length increased. I cannot find this option in the latest version I downloaded as the trial.

Has it been replaced with alternative functionality? How can I set objects to be in the footer of my site?

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Originally Posted by garycwood84

I have recently downloaded the trial of Xara Web Designer Premium, to see if it can replace Adobe Muse, which has been discontinued.

I have created a set of objects that I want to be the footer of the page. Looking for help online suggests that in version 8 of the software there was a right-click menu option called "Position on Page", and within that, an option to select footer, which effectively pinned the objects to the bottom of the page, meaning that they would move down as the page length increased. I cannot find this option in the latest version I downloaded as the trial.

Has it been replaced with alternative functionality? How can I set objects to be in the footer of my site?

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It is now Auto-fit to page with an expanded set of options.

Acorn

Thanks Acorn. All have another look and see if I can do what I need with that option.

thanks acorn, your knowledge is useful for users good work keep it up.

Hi Acorn,

I've now had a chance to test this. By setting Auto-fit to Page - Vertical - Bottom, I've been able to make my footer objects always appear at the bottom of the page as I increase or decrease the size.

However, I want the footer objects to appear at the bottom of the page, but if the page height is less than the browser window height, then I want the footer objects to appear at the bottom of the browser window, rather than leaving white space below them.

I've experimented with the sticky options, but these seem to force the footer objects to stay at the bottom of the window, even if the page is longer than the browser height, so that the page content scrolls up from behind the footer objects, which isn't what I need.

Please can you advise me further?

Thanks very much,

Gary

@acorn Are you able to advise me on this, please?

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Originally Posted by garycwood84

@acorn Are you able to advise me on this, please?

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The auto-fit option set the position of objects in your design, not how that is rendered in a browser window.
The sticky option changes an object's position to latch onto the bottom of the browser window.

To detach from the page to the window would require coding and the gap left in the page would be awkward to address.

Sorry,
Acorn

Thanks, Acorn. This is a shame: it's the first feature from Adobe Muse that I can't replicate with Xara. Is there a feature request list for Xara where I could request this functionality?

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Originally Posted by garycwood84

Thanks, Acorn. This is a shame: it's the first feature from Adobe Muse that I can't replicate with Xara. Is there a feature request list for Xara where I could request this functionality?

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Raise a Thread in Dear Xara here in TG.

Have you an example site that performs as you describe as I wouldn't mind looking it over?

Acorn

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Originally Posted by Acorn

Have you an example site that performs as you describe as I wouldn't mind looking it over?

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Thanks, Acorn. I've uploaded a quick example to www.wood-net.co.uk/footer. Please let me know if you can think of a way to achieve this in Xara Web Designer. It's really easy in Adobe Muse, which is what I used to create this example: if you activate a property called "Footer" on any objects, then they automatically appear at the bottom of the window, or the bottom of the content, whichever is furthest down.

Excuse me - perhaps I am being dense? I have a group of objects and would like to create a footer with them (rectangle, graphics with links and text with links).

I've done my best to create a group and set it as a footer. However, when I scroll up or down the page the group does not remain intact. Also, weirdly enough, once done it is also effecting the text ion my navigation bar.

There does not appear to be any tutorials on this subject. There is for modular websites (blocks), but none of the footers seem readily modifiable to the way I want the design to look.

Please help and/or guide me to a tutorial that can explain, in detail, how to create a footer that will remain intact as I repeat it across all pages without effecting other design elements of the website.

Thank You !!!!!

PS: I have spent hours searching this subject and also written Xara on the matter - without reply

Hi tmw775,

Can you post a sample file with your footer in it, so we can see what's going on?

Gary

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Originally Posted by tmw775

Excuse me - perhaps I am being dense? I have a group of objects and would like to create a footer with them (rectangle, graphics with links and text with links).

I've done my best to create a group and set it as a footer. However, when I scroll up or down the page the group does not remain intact. Also, weirdly enough, once done it is also effecting the text ion my navigation bar.

There does not appear to be any tutorials on this subject. There is for modular websites (blocks), but none of the footers seem readily modifiable to the way I want the design to look.

Please help and/or guide me to a tutorial that can explain, in detail, how to create a footer that will remain intact as I repeat it across all pages without effecting other design elements of the website.

Thank You !!!!!

PS: I have spent hours searching this subject and also written Xara on the matter - without reply

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Should you want to create a footer on each and have it attached to the bottom of each page (regardless of the height of that page), then here is an example that does not need web-blocks: https://initiostar.co.uk/demo/footer/

Here is the example XAR: Attachment 134102

Let us know if we are on the right track?

There are other ways to do this, but let's see where we are.

What I do:

• Set up the objects on the page to Push so nothing overlaps.
• Create my Footer with Push elements.
• Soft-group.
• Select Autofit and untick Automatic and instead pick Bottom & Centre.
• Set as Repeat on all Pages.

I have hammered this approach with a NavBar at the top and cannot break anything.

If you shun Push, then you have to manually adjust the page length to avoid any Footer overlap.

All Web Blocks do is the same approach; there is nothing magic about it.
https://helpandsupport.xara.com/xara.../auto_fit.html

Acorn