Tutorial - Creating Website Backgrounds

**gwpriester** · 11 August 2013, 02:31 PM

I have created a tutorial for how to create website backgrounds such as those found in the new versions of Web Designer 9 Premium and Designer Pro X9.

There are two methods, the first will work with all versions of Xara that support website creation, the second, will only work with Web Designer 9 Premium and Designer Pro X9.

Creating Website Backgrounds (The Tutorial)

Your comments and questions are always welcome and appreciated.

**zaphodeist** · 11 August 2013, 03:42 PM

Thank you Gary

Nice & clear

**Scotty** · 11 August 2013, 03:47 PM

Well done great tutorial.
Jim

**Big Frank** · 11 August 2013, 04:48 PM

another excellent tutorial gary, thanks

**angelize** · 12 August 2013, 01:15 AM

A very nice tutorial.

**Boy** · 12 August 2013, 10:56 AM

Thanks, Gary, very clear tutorial!

**Inspector** · 12 August 2013, 11:48 PM

A great tutorial, and VERY helpful for me. Thanks, Gary!

**Citywolf** · 13 August 2013, 02:04 PM

Excellent. Is this also an example of the "web document" format now available in Pro X9? -Dan

**gwpriester** · 13 August 2013, 02:31 PM

Is this also an example of the "web document" format now available in Pro X9? -Dan

Yes.

**gwpriester** · 15 August 2013, 12:57 PM

On page 5 of the tutorial, I said you can rotate the tiling background. And you can. There is only one problem, as I found out the hard way. Instead of repeating one small tile endlessly to fill the background, if you edit the pattern on the pasteboard and rotate the tile image, it creates one large image which loads slowly and almost after the fact. My tile became a 1+MB file and this was for a mobile site!

If you want to rotate a background, create a new tile pattern that is rotated to begin with and then create a new xarabackground_.xar file.