Xara??:... building a website?

**Grizzly Adams** · 14 July 2008, 01:58 PM

please don't shout!!..but I'm looking to purchase Xara as I'm led to believe that it is most friendly when building a website?..or am i wrong in thinking this?
I'm pretty good/ok with Corel Draw, is Xara the same sort of workings?
Sorry if the above sounds stupid, I just don't want to buy it if it doesn't do what I think it will!
Would welcome any comments,
Thanks,
Grizzly.

**Soquili** · 14 July 2008, 02:10 PM

Hi Grizzly,

Which Xara program are you wanting information about?

You have posted in the Xara Webstyle forum. Webstyle is very easy to use and is designed primarily for people that are not skilled in creating their own graphics. Templates are the main tool. The user can set their own colours and can edit text but not much more than that.

Xara Xtreme and Xtreme Pro are full featured Vector graphics applications similar to CorelDraw. Xara's programs do not have the high learning curve that Corel requires. At one time Corel was a distributor of Xara's older vector graphics application. During that time Corel attempted to include some of Xara's more advanced features that CorelDraw did not have.

If you are interested in Xara Xtreme you can down load a trial version that is fully functional. None of the features are hampered in any way. http://www.xara.com

The newest release of Xara Xtreme and Xtreme Pro do have an HTML export function. You can create your graphics and text for a web page and layout exactly as you want it to look on the web, then simply export to html.

**Grizzly Adams** · 14 July 2008, 02:16 PM

Thanks Soquili, not sure which Xara programme is best for me?..I am looking to build a website, I am pretty good with Corel but have found out it's not web building friendly/easy, where as Xara is?
The other area of interest is that I have heard that Xara isn't as hard to get your head around as Corel!!

**Soquili** · 14 July 2008, 02:31 PM

I would say that Xara Xtreme would probably suit you fine.

It is easier to learn than CorelDraw. Most of the tools are the same, but may have slightly different behaviour. I have CorelDraw but have not used it for ages so I cannot be exact about any differences. It is much easier to draw in Xara Xtreme so I don't even open Corel.

For creating a webpage or multiple pages I have never seen any program easier to use than the current version of Xtreme. The current version is 4.0 and was released just a couple of months ago. The export to HTML was introduced in this newest version. A recent thread in the Xara Xtreme and Xtreme Pro forum has some examples of web pages created in Xtreme 4.0: http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=32484

**Grizzly Adams** · 14 July 2008, 02:56 PM

I really appreciate your replies Soquili, I like the look of Xara Xtreme, would I need to puirchase webstyle 4 as well?....and would I need to purchase something like dreamweaver or something similar?...or does Xara do it all?
Sorry for the questions but I want to make sure before I go for it!!

**Soquili** · 14 July 2008, 03:09 PM

Webstyle 4 would not be needed. The output of Webstyle cannot be imported into Xtreme. You would need to hand edit the HTML code of any Xtreme exported web page to use any Webstyle created menus, etc. You can create similar types of menus within Xtreme.

Applications like Dreamweaver, ColdFusion, Microsoft Frontpage, Microsoft Expression Web, CoffeCup, etc. are good programs but are not needed.

**syntagm** · 16 July 2008, 06:36 PM

It is easy
The proof is in the pudding
See it at www.hishtilsa.com
all built and maintained with XARA
I will add the XARA credit with the next update.

**alexbozhenov** · 16 July 2008, 07:04 PM

Xtreme is a great tool to help building the good-looking websites, no more... And I hope it would never be just another wysiwyg editor... It's late at least for a 3-5 yrs... I just feel better when surfing the net and see the real web-sites produced by pro's... Do you remember those blinking/many-colored websites? ))) I think it's a dead way for Xtreme -- just follows the many others wysiwyg editors (maybe it will be a bit longer for Xtreme just because of great drawing tools). But you have to understand what for you're going to use Xtreme... Don't think it's the best choice to produce commercial websites on the continuous basis... Maintenance troubles for your customers... No, I think no. The greatest power of Xtreme -- drawing abilities.