Would like some help on some questions

[currysteph]

I have a current family .html site. But it needs to be updated so Im thinking of using Xara Web Designer.

My 2 questions:

1. I have 1000's or photos (which grows each year). What is the a good way to have a page that has 100's of photos that can be enlarged when hovered over and dowloaded in original size when clicked or right clicked.

any example site or tutorial video on photo galleries?

2. I also have around 50 or so family videos (which also grows each year) currently these videos are played with a windows media player activex plugin and my video format is .wmv. What format does the xara video player widget play? Will I need to convert all my videos to a different format and what about retaining a good quality for these videos (as they are an archive of our daughters growing up.)

any example site or tutorial video on video galleries?

Thanks to anyone who can help.

Stephen

[steve.ledger]

I have moved your thread to the correct forum for your questions.

1. I have 1000's or photos (which grows each year). What is the a good way to have a page that has 100's of photos that can be enlarged when hovered over and dowloaded in original size when clicked or right clicked.

Too many options to discuss in one post.
There are many gallery scripts that can be used and embedded into Xara Web Designer pages.
PICASAWEB has a very simple embeddable slide show which works directly from your PICASAWEB albums.
It is really not viable to use Web Designer to directly handle thousands of photos because after each update of your site you must upload the entire site again, not just the changes.

2. I also have around 50 or so family videos (which also grows each year) currently these videos are played with a windows media player activex plugin and my video format is .wmv.

You can continue to use this format and embed them via a placeholder using the same code you are using already.
Alternatively you can embed any other video type uploaded to services such as YouTube, Vimeo and others.
If you want to keep videos on your own site, JWPlayer is an open source player of .MP4 and .FLV
All these are easily found on the web and discussed already in many threads at Talkgraphics.

What format does the xara video player widget play?

There is no Xara video player widget. You can embed any video type via a placeholder using the appropriate code..

any example site or tutorial video on video galleries?

By now there are hordes of examples, tutorials and videos at Talkgraphics, even some at Xara.com - please read through the relative forums and use the TG search facility before asking because believe me, your questions have been asked and discussed many times before - there's a huge resource here, make good use of it because it's all free .

Thanks to anyone who can help.

Stephen

Welcome to the Forums Stephen.

[currysteph]

"It is really not viable to use Web Designer to directly handle thousands of photos because after each update of your site you must upload the entire site again, not just the changes."

OUCH...my site is about 25G in size...no way I could upload it each and everytime.....why is it set up this way?

[steve.ledger]

.....why is it set up this way?

Because Web Designer is not an application aimed at those who need to create and maintain 25 gigabyte sized websites.

[currysteph]

I can understand that but its just a fancy html editor....seems like it should be easy enough to only upload changes in a site....

Im seeing if i can do a workaround by creating my site in Web Designer and then managing it withing Frontpage.

not sure if it will work but Im thinking it should

[steve.ledger]

I can understand that but its just a fancy html editor....

Web Designer or Xtreme 5 are NOT html editors, fancy nor otherwise.
Unlike Dreamweaver or Front page, there is no html to edit during the design stage.

The graphical created and managed WYSIWYG design is exported to HTML by way of Xara's html filter and while possible to edit (post export) in a text editor, it not advised as any future changes made to the design in Web Designer will overwrite any changes made when exported.
Also the outdated FrontPage may change the exported code and cause positioning problems.