What I'd like to see in Web Designer

**nickydude** · 05 March 2009, 01:14 AM

A bit premature I know but rather than having umpteen threads about what you'd like to see in Web Designer, perhaps you could include them here so Xara have one compact place to see what customers are after. Ok I'll start.

• To right click on an object and 'lock' that particular object from being edited. I'm aware that you can turn off layers from being edited but not 1 particular object on that layer, for example a rectangle covering the page.

• When right clicking in text mode, the ability to 'Select All' text.

**covoxer** · 05 March 2009, 06:28 AM

Originally Posted by nickydude

When right clicking in text mode, the ability to 'Select All' text.

Ctrl+A shall help you. And is faster than right click + menu option select.

**nickydude** · 05 March 2009, 12:23 PM

Very nice, thank you.

**dogbertbh** · 05 March 2009, 03:32 PM

I'm VERY happy with the result here. I swear I've had dreams about how this would work since the days of Frontpage and they've finally come true through XWD!!

I would like to have my .web file upload to the ftp site along with the rest of the site. They're typically not large files and it would make the file available at the next computer i go to.

So if I work from home and upload my site, then go to work and somehow be able to download my .web file.

Right now I ftp and upload the .web file for editing where I go next.

Also, I'd like to be able to click / right-click for color selection. -maybe I missed that.

OOH!! And the shapes tool would be cool to have as well - starbursts & the like

**covoxer** · 05 March 2009, 03:42 PM

Originally Posted by dogbertbh

I would like to have my .web file upload to the ftp site along with the rest of the site.

Place your web file inside the "files" folder (named like "index_htm_files" that is createl alongside the exported index.htm file for example) and it will be upload with all the other files.

**dogbertbh** · 05 March 2009, 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by covoxer

Place your web file inside the "files" folder (named like "index_htm_files" that is createl alongside the exported index.htm file for example) and it will be upload with all the other files.

THIS is why I love Xara.

That's right - I said it

Thanks John!!

**jon spain** · 05 March 2009, 05:43 PM

Being able to import existing websites would be good, or is that already there?

**Spinny** · 05 March 2009, 05:54 PM

Originally Posted by jon spain

Being able to import existing websites would be good, or is that already there?

I don't believe you'll find a WYSIWYG web designer that could do that, anywhere. The problem of parsing and translating arbitrary HTML/CSS code into the local proprietary format used by all such programs is, I believe, well nigh unsolvable--at least at the affordable level.

**Charles Moir** · 05 March 2009, 05:56 PM

Being able to import existing websites is close to impossible I'm afraid. In order to do that we'd have to interpret the HTML, CSS, Javascript and create a layout that is an exact replication of what a web browser does. In effect that IS a Web browser. And since the likes of Microsoft, Netscape/Mozillla (Firefox), Opera have been struggling to produce a reliable or compatible browsers for 10 years or more, this is just not practical.

So while it would be truly great to be able to load existing websites and edit them, I can't see it happening in the foreseeable future.

**nickydude** · 05 March 2009, 06:18 PM

For XWD to read the page size folder "C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Web Designer\Templates\ENG" on startup so any page size templates we add will be available in the New menu and the drop down of the page properties.