First ever web site design

First time poster. I was going to hire a web designer and started asking around and a buddy of mine turned me on to Xara. I absolutely love this software; it's intuitive and perfect for my purposes as I will do other web sites in the future for personal and business reasons.

I've spent the last 4 days loitering around these MB's and you guys remind me of the SketchUp forums where everyone is so helpful and courteous.

Would love your comments. I do intend to replace some of the photos at the bottom when I get better ones.

Ron

I have moved this thread to the web design forum as this seems to be a work in progress. But by all means when your site is live we would love to have you post a link in the web gallery:)

It has lots of potential - look forward to seeing the finished article online! :thx

(don't forget to have somebody proofread the site for spelling and grammar errors before publication)

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Originally Posted by Bellwells

First time poster. I was going to hire a web designer and started asking around and a buddy of mine turned me on to Xara. I absolutely love this software; it's intuitive and perfect for my purposes as I will do other web sites in the future for personal and business reasons.

I've spent the last 4 days loitering around these MB's and you guys remind me of the SketchUp forums where everyone is so helpful and courteous.

Would love your comments. I do intend to replace some of the photos at the bottom when I get better ones.

Ron

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It does remind me of Sketch Up, easy to grasp and quite powerful.
However, SketchUP runs out of steam real quick, Xara doesn't seem to have as many limitations.
I only wish there was the magic wand like there is in Photoshop

When designing a new site, have a look at the templates they can be really helpful as a starting point.

Thanks for the comments. I will proofread before finishing up. I wanted something unique and fresh and decided to start from scratch rather than use one of the templates. I do worry that getting too "creative" for the web site could cause some problems, but we'll see how the finished product looks; I can always change it.

More later,

Ron

Edit: thanks for moving this to the proper spot.