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So friends, I love Xara, I am sure we all do. Just wanted to find out what Xara is not capable of or good at?
I think in my list, the first one that I think of is Database.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
I just want to know when I start a project for a client that a year down the road they don't ask for something that Xara can not do, or anything is possible?
Lets chat with our Masks on ;))
Widgets. A few work fine, but for many more the instructions that Xara has are convoluted and complicated. Unless one is an experienced coded instructions fail. The Facebook widget is a nightmare. Maps are fine. YouTube would only work with a placeholder with instructions from Acorn. Jotform is so so.
I don’t think I’d have a site without @acorn.
Incidentally I love Xara. The only software I use religiously on the PC platform.
Bill
WEB STUFF
Supersite on Variant with Conventional in Desktop.
Why Xara cannot see why, I despair.
Useful NavBars.
Rotated Text as text.
Proper HTML Tables.
I personally can do all these with code and other kludges...
XARA STUFF
integrate new functions properly.
Acorn
Their unwillingness to fix what's already there. If you look through this forum there are a lot of things that need 'tidying'. Tables, Navbars, widgets (as Bill mentioned) most things that start with Smart....talking of which:
I played with Pro+; using the quick shape tool, how go you draw a simple oblong? For me it came out as a square with random rotation that I then had set to 0 degrees, then use both horizontal and vertical handles to make, what used to be, a single operation rectangle. Holding the ctrl kind of keeps the random rotation under control, but it still adds several moves.
Oh yes! Stupid things like the page background having a drop shadow. Remove it. Fine. carry on working with the file and suddenly and unnoticed the sodding shadow sneaks back in uninvited. When working on a site over several days or weeks the number of times I have to delete the dropshadow does my head in.Quote:
Their unwillingness to fix what's already there. If you look through this forum there are a lot of things that need 'tidying'
@ Behzad. Xara isn't capable of heating my meatballs and many other things. Xara create static websites. WYSIWYG sites. It's doesn't use databases. It doesn't do laundry, clean cars or compete in the Americas cup. In fact the list of what it doesn't do is endless ;)
oH Egg Attachment 127976
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I wondered about the page drop shadow. Happens to me as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill
Here’s the thing. If you are a relatively new user, as myself, if you don’t know the program extremely well, you second guess yourself and think the problem is user related. Having the manual open all the time, along with this forum I’m understanding the idiosyncrasies of the program. But I still second guess myself on advanced features. There’s many features and I open WD everyday. The newbie expects the widgets to work well, the drop downs to look better, pages not to have a drop shadow.
Acorn, Egg, Gary, and Behzad thank you for your guidance.
-Bill
I wondered about the page drop shadow. Happens to me as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill
Here’s the thing. If you are a relatively new user, as myself, if you don’t know the program extremely well, you second guess yourself and think the problem is user related. Having the manual open all the time, along with this forum I’m understanding the idiosyncrasies of the program. But I still second guess myself on advanced features. There’s many features and I open WD everyday. The newbie expects the widgets to work well, the drop downs to look better, pages not to have a drop shadow.
Acorn, Egg, Gary, and Behzad thank you for your guidance.
Adding to the original post. I don’t think that WD does a good job at drop down menus at all. A couple of folks I’ve convinced to buy WD stumble on drop downs. Once they’ve figured it out they wonder why they look so bad.
-Bill
The magic action where this occurs is when you edit a Placeholder. Even worse, it resets your Supersite back to conventional, just for laughs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill
I recall a US car manufacturer had poor customer ratings. It waded through all the complaints and re-positioned the cigarette lighter and its cars became top notch.
Panem et circenses.
Acorn
Dear Bill, we are all learning, yes one has to hover over here for years and check the manual etc. to figure sometimes ways around an issue. I am still not sure as of today who xara is competing with. I do have to say that Xara is a fine product and no product is perfect out there, it is the users like you have mentioned aside from myself :) that have helped numerous people and Xara is lucky to have them.
Dear Xara section needs to be looked at and if the team at Xara take 2-3 suggestions per month and fix those aside from their own slew of new features, then everyone would be happy.
I cannot help but point out this must have been a bit of a fag ....Quote:
Originally Posted by Acorn
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Panem et circenses.
certainement du pain
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handrawn, so many levels.Quote:
Originally Posted by handrawn
Acorn
did you know they made 84 episodes of 'allo allo' - just spent best part of three weeks watching them all... whatamistakatomaka ;)
Captain Alberto Bertorlli ?
the man with the chicken on his head.... :)
the more the better, depth is never wasted in a joke... although Café Rene and Co was more pantomime-farce than circus....Quote:
handrawn, so many levels