What I'd like to see in Web Designer

[nickydude]

Also the option to rename the folders in the Designs Gallery, so instead of something like this: "C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Web Designer\Templates\ENG" we could rename it to "Page Size Templates".

[Charles Moir]

You should not need to add the templates to the gallery. Just Save as template and it will appear in your template list so that it's no under File -> New -> menu options.

Slight bug means that you have to give it a .xar extension and not the usual .web extension. i.e. save it with a specific name like mytemplate.xar

That will be fixed in an update, but saving with .xar works for now.

[steve.ledger]

Slight bug means that you have to give it a .xar extension and not the usual .web extension. i.e. save it with a specific name like mytemplate.xar

Thanks Charles, I wondered why a new page template didn't show up too - save as .xar for the time being, noted.

[jclements]

Note:

The File > New menu is still limited to displaying 13 items which are derived from the files stored in the templates directory (the same is true for Xara).

I believe the 2 top-most ones will always be the user's default template and the other is the animation template. The remaining 11 will the first 11 alphabetically sorted in the templates directory

[nickydude]

Slight bug means that you have to give it a .xar extension and not the usual .web extension. i.e. save it with a specific name like mytemplate.xar

That did the trick. Thanks.

[nickydude]

Perhaps the ability to define our own keyboard shortcuts?

[Soquili]

Nicky that is another Xara Xtreme Pro ability that was removed for Web Designer. If Web Designer is based on Xtreme rather than the Pro version it would not have been included from the beginning of application design.

[ss-kalm]

Also the option to rename the folders in the Designs Gallery, so instead of something like this: "C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Web Designer\Templates\ENG" we could rename it to "Page Size Templates".

They can be renamed:

Navigate to the relevant folder, open the Xarainfo folder and edit the xaraclip.txt file with a standard text editor ...

Edit the #DESCRIPTION: field to suit ......

[steve.ledger]

Good tip Keith.

Also remember that the Folders in the Gallery can be re arranged via dragging.

[nickydude]

Thanks, I've added that to the guide.