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Thought I'd chime back in since it's been awhile since I started this thread. I jumped in and did the immersion thing by getting to know a variety of programs, including WD6, XX5, etc. along with...

If you're using the Adobe suite you might consider Fireworks...

Ditto on Artisteer, it's a real time saver.

Sorry..by clone I meant Zen Cart.

I suggest taking a look at ECWID, it's free, very user friendly and has a great shopping cart interface for the user. I have found that although oscommerce and it's "clone" to be very robust, they...

I've successfully used this combination of programs (WD5/XX5/WD6 and Artisteer) many times. I have found it to be a great alternative to fooling around with other methods of creating "editable "...

I have been using surrealcms on a couple of sites and the problem I run into is that they don't like any other charset than utf-8, which is not the default for XX5. I've been trying to incorporate...

Thanks sledger, no it didn't seem to, the original setting appears to override the change to utf-8. Perhaps I didn't enter it properly, I will copy what you have provided and see if that works....

Chris,
I didn't mention it but I do in fact host sites, however I don't go after the hosting business so much as just host sites I've created. Some sites I've completed are www.arthurcenter.com...

Just in case anyone was wondering how this all turned out I decided to bite the bullet and go for it, I'm glad I did. I was able to get my hands on Dreamweaver CS3 (ugh) and some other programs such...

Could someone advise me on this, placeholder doesn't do the trick.

I'm using surreal cms for adding editable content to sites for some of my clients. To ensure surreal acts properly it's necessary for the charset to be UTF-8. I've been editing it to UTF-8 through...

X5 has crashed twice so far today. I'm working in Web Designer now to avoid any problems.

These are the messages I received today:
Internal Program Error 1521.w.sr.em; Out of Memory; Internal...

sledger,

Yes I'm using Xara Xtreme 5 running on Windows XP Pro. It seems to happen on any open file and I haven't noticed a particular set of events that sets it off. Earlier today I received an...

I just downloaded this Artisteer program, it seems to be a very nice program.

Is anyone else having problems with repeated crashes involving a variety of warning messages. I just had a crash indicating there was an "access violation", yes I have installed the tweak for...

I have been using cushy cms for a couple of sites I'm developing and find it to work very well. The previous comments are correct about giving up some of the effects that can be done within XWD...

Thanks all for the constructive comments...I'll make the adjustments as suggested. I'm not very good at some of the things with XWD such as making the pillows look more dimensional, etc. but that's...

sorry about that, someone came into the office with an "emergency" and I stopped reading and started typing...I had something disappear on me before in a similar fashion so I just used the arrow...

Maybe this was the long way around but I had to do the same thing so I just copied the original group and then deleted the additional images I didn't need.

You are using a font that isn't considered web safe, I experienced that I found if you group the text as an image the problem goes away. Got that from the XWD Help File.

I'd appreciate some feedback on a site I just finished, my first real site using XWD.

www.pluckypillow.com

Thanks All!

Hey guys, remember me, I asked the question a couple of months ago about getting into the web design biz...as luck would have it I was "forced" to make the jump due to our dear leaders handling of...

I really appreciate the information and straight forward advice. I'm not making this decision lightly and I'm not quiting my day job either. Dusting off my brain won't kill me and your suggestions...

I hope members of the forum can give me some candid advice as to how to proceed with making a career change into web design. I've used some of the more common programs and like Xara, but I don't...