What website features would you like to see in the future?

[Rob-Xar]

We'll be working on some website features shortly and whilst we do have a long document of wanted features and changes (I'm not kidding, it's 14 pages long of requests), I'd like to collate it a bit more into a list of doable features given our development time frame and the amount of requests we get. So I'd like to open up this discussion to the wider audience of TalkGraphics to let us know what sort of things you would like to see in the future. Odds are what you have suggested previously is most certainly on the list but it helps gives us an idea of the priority and demand for features.

Please keep in mind that I'm interested in web features than graphics currently although if they cross over then that's fine also.

[pauland]

We'll be working on some website features shortly and whilst we do have a long document of wanted features and changes (I'm not kidding, it's 14 pages long of requests), I'd like to collate it a bit more into a list of doable features given our development time frame and the amount of requests we get. So I'd like to open up this discussion to the wider audience of TalkGraphics to let us know what sort of things you would like to see in the future. Odds are what you have suggested previously is most certainly on the list but it helps gives us an idea of the priority and demand for features.

Please keep in mind that I'm interested in web features than graphics currently although if they cross over then that's fine also.

Xara should make use of face and voice recognition features using the camera and microphone present on many computers and use AI to process the facial expressions of the users, the glint in their eye and the expletives they utter.

Instead of making user troll through the template and tool menus, the camera should follow the user and the software should generate pages accordingly.

For example, the user could say "Hey Xara, I need a photography website that works on any platform", if the user doesn't look happy or expresses corrective phrases such as "No F***N way will I use that", or "I don't want them flowery colours, I want to make my users miserable", then the software will adjust the generated pages to suit and look and listen again.

Naturally, nuanced expressions such as tears will indicate dissatisfaction and the software will then correlate the expression with the users posts on talkgraphics, so multiple expressions of dissatisfaction on TG will tweak the algorithm to generate more tears.

Similarly, element adjustment will voice-controlled. So, once the basic layout is approved (no tears detected) the user will be able to populate and nuance the design. For example, the user might say "Hey Xara, ditch that Lorem ipsum header rubbish and replace it with "Weelcome to my website, press ENTER to continue".

The new system will integrate with Xara cloud, so in the design phase the user can say "Hey, Xara Cloud, don't let the bloomin' users mess with my picture on column 3, give them the finger if they try and change it."

These enhancements will increase uptake of Xara software no end.

Hey Xara, you listening?

[Rob-Xar]

Pauland,

We have no plans or intentions to implement... well any of that. Again, I'm only interested in web features currently. Please try to keep the suggestions sensible.

[pauland]

Please try to keep the suggestions sensible.

If it didn't make you smile, even slightly, then I feel sad about that. TG is a place that needs a few smiles.

[Chris M]

Acorn set me on the detachable Window path and the more I thought about it the better it seemed.

1) Detachable Windows so we could, for instance, have one variant on one screen and another on a second or third screen.
2) In house forms, not a link to an online service, but like CoffeeCup.
3) A Header and Footer section like Word. Anything in a resizable area would repeat on all pages and be sticky.

[Rob-Xar]

If it didn't make you smile, even slightly, then I feel sad about that. TG is a place that needs a few smiles.

Ah were you playing? lol I was taking it seriously like... does he really want that? lol

Acorn set me on the detachable Window path and the more I thought about it the better it seemed.

1) Detachable Windows so we could, for instance, have one variant on one screen and another on a second or third screen.
2) In house forms, not a link to an online service, but like CoffeeCup.
3) A Header and Footer section like Word. Anything in a resizable area would repeat on all pages and be sticky.

1) I'll check on the feasibility on this with the developers. I'm not sure how easy this would be or not.
2) This is kinda on the list but has been rejected a few times due to the amount of work and ongoing maintenance that would be required. I could suggest a very simple form as starters I suppose.
3) I think I know what you mean, although you could group everything and then if you want to make a change, simply open and edit the group and apply sticky / stretchy to it.