Need a little bit of guidance with the web designer software before buying

[benoit1980]

Hello,

I have seen a demo of the web designer software last night and was super impressed!

Before buying I would like to ask a few questions please.

1)When the web design is generated, is the Xara brand showing anywhere in the files? As I would like to resell my creations as a freelancer.


2)What is the best way to export the designs to an Android platform? I would like to make static websites with infromative content that is copied into an Android app.


3)Does this software has all it needs to become a good UI UX designer(tool wise) as I would like to start taking UI UX design courses.




Thank you all!

[RKissane]

I can answer part of your questions.

The Xara branding does not show in the files unless you place it there. On the templates you will see the Xara link but that you can remove without any problem. If you where to look at the HTML source code you may find the word Xara referenced but is for widgets that you may have added to the web design.

I have no experience with Android development so unable to help there.

There was a member on here that did use Xara for UI. He also sold some Website designs that he made. However, he decided to go do something else and he quit selling his designs. I tried to find his web site information because he had left some of his designs up but I can not locate it.

Here is a different thread, that the person who started, the person who started the thread,luciandesign, may be able to offer you some ideas.
https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...Android-Device

Ray

[benoit1980]

Hi Ray thank you for the kind reply.

From what I understood based on the link you gave me is that Cara is not responsive but instead you have to design a new website for each screen size, is it right? If yes then it is a bit of a nightmare if you have to include your PHP on multiple websites..ouch!

I will try to contact lucian design

Thanks.

[bkjohns]

Hi benoit

You do create variants (Xara's word for it) for various screen size spectrums. You can share text, etc. with all variants so you do not have to update all variants individually (but you can if need be). Not sure how that would impact .php files you create. It isn't as easy as a true responsive program but much better than having to create all screen sizes from scratch and updating them all. I have found that 2 sizes generally fits what I need, 3 is the most I've used. Once you get the hang of it work flow goes well enough. If you don't use Xara now, you might try a fully responsive designer (such as Coffeecups responsive designer) that will do what you want - the same learning curve but once you figure it out it all makes sense. So far, I'm good with Xara WD. Hope that helps.

[benoit1980]

Hi bkJohns,

Thanks for the reply.
Tonight i have exported the html and was quite shocked at how ugly it is coded. All the css is inline rather than hosted on separate css files. Is this normal? If yes then there is no way for web developpers to buy the generated products as I am a php developper myself and the generated code would be too horrible to work with.

Any suggestions please? In the mean time I willc hec coffee cup as I have the feeling that Xara will generate some kind of very bad code. No idea why.

[Egg Bramhill]

Tonight i have exported the html and was quite shocked at how ugly it is coded.

Xara is a wysiwyg graphic website creator. The html code is not meant to be amended using html etc. To amend the website you need to reopen the xar/web file, change elements within that software and republish. Therefore you can only supply templates as xar/web files for others with that software to amend, not as templates for amendment by rewriting the code.