Web Design possibilities in Xtreme 5 ? Is editing the pages possible ?

**stephane_fr** · 09 July 2009, 11:11 AM

Hello to all.

I am making tests with the v5 Xara Xtreme these days, and I am particularly testing the Web Designer possibilities. Xara seems to be a very interesting "wysiwyg" tool, with a "graphic approach" that was appealing for me.

For that I am making an upgrade-test of my own website.

I guessed that Xara could be a little "short" with evoluated web fonctions, but I was expecting a possibility to make changes in the final Xara pages in another soft (as Dreamweaver for instance).
Then, I didn't get a form tool in Xara (to take the simpliest example !).
So I was expecting to open the page in Dreamweaver, and make the necessary changes there.
Unfortunatly I am deceived when I see the page opened in Dream. Everything seems to be "bloqued", unpossible to edit.

Did the page created into Xara are condamned to be non-editable pages ?
I am too new in the Wed Designer tool, perhaps I lost some of the possibilities... ?

Thank you for your opinions on this tool....

**Egg Bramhill** · 09 July 2009, 12:34 PM

Stephane, XX and XWD are designed to be wysiwyg web editors and any future editing/amendments are intended to be carried out on the original .xar / .web files, not in third party programs like Dreamweaver or text editors like Notepad. Most additional features like forms can easily be placed on your site using placeholders. Do a search on "forms" in the WD forum to find out how.

**stephane_fr** · 09 July 2009, 01:08 PM

Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

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Most additional features like forms can easily be placed on your site using placeholders. Do a search on "forms" in the WD forum to find out how.

Ok I go and have a look in the Web Designer forum... Thank you

(but what do you mean by "placeholder" please ?

Edit : there is a new topic about the forms in WD -> http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=39823
good new...

**cursor** · 09 July 2009, 01:51 PM

What are placeholders?

Open Xara Xtreme 5 Help.
Click the Contents tab.
Scroll to about 2/3 down the list of topics, until you find Web Graphics and Web Sites.
Click the adjacent + sign.
Click on Web Properties Dialog.
Click on Placeholder Tab. Here you'll find a wealth of information about placeholders.

**stephane_fr** · 09 July 2009, 01:56 PM

Hello.

Thank you everything is here indeed.
I now go and traduce all this

TY very much

**stephane_fr** · 09 July 2009, 02:17 PM

Hello again.

Here is what I did :

- I create a complete form in Dreamweaver
- In Xara I create a rectangle at the size and place of the form I want in my form page.
- I point on this rectangle, and I use the "placeholder/replace with HTML code" and I put the code I did in Dream (from "<form name=" to "/form" in the page).
- I create a new small rectangle, that I called <head> ("names" properties dialog) - suggested by slavelle here : http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...t=39823&page=2
- I use the "placeholder/replace with HTML code" and I put the code that was created in Head before in Dream.

Now it works

**amoore** · 09 July 2009, 03:06 PM

Originally Posted by stephane_fr

Thank you everything is here indeed.
I now go and traduce all this

Hi Stephane

Delighted that you're trying out our favorite application!

Out of curiousity, are you using an automatic translator of some sort? I'm asking because I don't think that "traduce" in its current usage is what you meant to say.

Fortunately, it's not a commonly used word anymore.

I'm just alerting you that the translation may not always be what you intend. Not to worry. We'll work it out. Xarans who speak French turn up here from time to time, so they may help, as well.

Allison

**stephane_fr** · 09 July 2009, 03:37 PM

Hello Amoore : no no I "translate" myself

About WebStyle : good tool.

But I think I will in future use it "only partly", not for all the entire pages.
As these pages are "bloqued" if one's wants to make some changes in another web editor.

So : I will see to make my graphic templates in Xara (navigation bars with mouse on/off possibilities), then export to DreamW, and finish the pages in Dream... If possible in a simply way... I don't know yet...

**cursor** · 09 July 2009, 03:55 PM

Bonjour stephane.

Why not do all of your website design in Xara Xtreme 5? What might be your reason for moving to Dreamweaver?

**gracehjs** · 09 July 2009, 04:32 PM

I'm not Stephane but I bring my Xtreme site into Microsoft Expressions Webfor several reasons.
1. I have Microsoft extensions set, so I cannot use FTP to my provider.
2. In Expressions web I can merge the piece created in Xtreme into the current web and just update the pages I have changed.
3. I can look at the html if I want.