Just Released: A New Version of Web Designer

[pauland]

Nobody is making you use the software.

Personally I wouldn't want that menu, but that's besides the point. I wouldn't say that either of those features is 'standard'.

[Acorn]

Iam envy especially for menu top left. (http://www.pribehylidi.cz/rozhovory/znasilnena/) There is no way to do it with webdesigner, bro ...

I didn't find the menu here that inspiring.
Xara has strengths and weaknesses but if you work at it, you can fake out almost anything.

CSS - Rollover Menu.web

All is pure Xara, save the small green box with some CSS in the Placeholder head.

Acorn

[Boy]

Nicely done, Acorn! Thanks for sharing. I can't quite follow yet how you set this all up but I'll study your file some more.

[Rut]

my webdesigner brother acron

Please tell me, why you dont develop webdisagner instead of that strange people there ?

My big thank you for that rollover menu that everybody will need if create something serious

respect, be blessed and lets God himself payback all you do instead of developers

... for unknown foreigners ;(

thank you very much again ... this is my message to developers, can you send money to this man ? he did your job for us for free !!

- if your genius brain let me know how to do true rss and facebook comments ... me and lot of people here will be so happy

[Acorn]

Nicely done, Acorn! Thanks for sharing. I can't quite follow yet how you set this all up but I'll study your file some more.

Thanks.

A menu click to open a Layer (Menu) with a transition effect of 2 seconds to Slide in from Left.
The Menu (hamburger) had a Mouse-over effect of Fade and simply had another coloured hamburger on the MouseOver layer.
The Menu Layer has a shape that covered the hamburger and prevented further clicks.

The Menu Layer blue cross and blue edge all had a Link of popup:close, so the layer could be closed.
I hid the Xara close icon with some CSS in the green Placeholder.

To get rollover effects on a pop-up layer, you need to add another Layer above called MouseOver <Layer>, here it was MouseOver Menu.

The images on the Menu and MouseOver Menu Layers were simple Rollover effects.

I was going to add a MouseDown Menu Layer and also experiment with a "MouseOver MouseOver Menu" Layer as I want more effects to kick in.
Basically, if you can achieve something with MouseDown, MouseOver and MouseOff, you can move them all to a new group (say Fred), and name the Layers MouseDown Fred, MouseOver Fred and MouseOff Fred.

SignOff Acorn

[Acorn]

my webdesigner brother acron
Please tell me, why you dont develop webdisagner instead of that strange people there ?
My big thank you for that rollover menu that everybody will need if create something serious
respect, be blessed and lets God himself payback all you do instead of developers
... for unknown foreigners ;(
thank you very much again ... this is my message to developers, can you send money to this man ? he did your job for us for free !!
- if your genius brain let me know how to do true rss and facebook comments ... me and lot of people here will be so happy

Rut, the developers at Xara did all the hard work in the application, I just used some of my knowledge to design a small thing using the Xara features.
Work at things in small chunks and get to understand all of it. You will then be the expert TGers will look for.

For adding RSS to your Xara pages, you could look at Feed43: http://feed43.com/ or Feedity; https://feedity.com/

Acorn

[Boy]

Thanks for the comprehensive explanation, Acorn. I copied it into the .web file for future reference.

[Acorn]

Thanks for the comprehensive explanation, Acorn. I copied it into the .web file for future reference.

Boy, I should have done that!
Acorn

[restless]

I hope nobody gets mad at me for this, but... I am completely confused. I am 75 years old, with just one eye that still works and it gets tired very quickly so I don't even try to read all the terms of service stuff that everybody has these days. Here is what confuses me - I would appreciate any clarification:

I understand subscribing to something that you can use as long as you are a subscriber.

I also understand - and have - software you can download and use, that comes with a 1-year service contract that you can renew. The service contract includes fixes and updates for the year. If you want to continue to receive fixes and updates, you renew it when the year is up. If not, you can continue to use what you paid for - which is the software and the one year of fixes and updates.

What I don't understand is a company that sells you stuff, and then takes some of it away if unless you pay them more money.

So before I spend any more money with Xara, can somebody please give me a very simple explanation for somebody with little technical knowledge and who doesn't understand all this jargon:

I don't know what they mean by "content library." So - if I build a web site and include things like stretchy buttons and slide shows and other widgets and stuff... maybe artwork... am I in danger of losing it if it was added during the 1 year of updates?

I use features like that on multiple web sites, to maintain consistency for our own web sites and the web sites we set up for our Instructors.

In other words: What is it exactly that you say we will lose if we don't pay more money after 365 days? Widgets? Buttons? Pictures?

I have no objection for paying a fair price for what I get. I do object to being lured into using something on our web sites and then being told I have to pay again or else I run the risk of losing work that I have done on multiple web sites.

I hope I just misunderstand and that's now what you are talking about. If that is what you are talking about, I think I'll just stick with what I've got... unless there is a danger I could lose it.

Thanks.

Ed

[pauland]

Ed, I think you misunderstand.

Xara won't take stuff away if you choose not to renew your subscription.

Imagine if you started your subscription in May 2016, and chose not to renew in 2017.

When your subscription started in May 2016, you would have been given a disc of the latest version of the software.

During your subscription, you would be able to update the software with new releases - you have access to updates as a subscriber.

In June 2017, your subscription has expired but everything is working fine. Xara has not taken anything away. Because the subscription has lapsed you cannot get new updates. No problem - your sites work, your software works.

It carries on like that until November 2017. You get a new computer, or your hard drive stops working.

Now you re-install from the disc. Your sites still work, but now your software is as it was back when your subscription started. Any updates that you received during your subscription - bug fixes or additional features - are no longer available.

If your sites used any of the new features, they will still work but you won't be able to update them and still include changes to those features.

Xara won't take anything away, but if your computer changes and you don't have a comprehensive backup, your software will revert to as it was when your subscription began.