ok - sort of a new guy with XARA
(making websites for almost 35 years -- so wish I found this program sooner!!!)
anyway = situation
as I knew I would be making hundreds of edits
and after making some practice sites with 2 variants (normal and mobile)
I decided to first make the site with just desktop (ie without tweaking every section on both variants
works fine
so I added a variant page (480 wide)
and of course == 50% is all off the side (out of view)
after editing a few text blocks by hand from 14 to 18 pt
I learned about styles - so I Updated for JUST this variant
also worked ok -- but again = now more than 50% off-page
and some of my text blocks were tables and some were 2 columns
and embedded photo widgets and many headers were text with 3d enhancements (which now won't scale)
get the point? LOTS OF STUFF
AND EDITING EVERY SECTION IS THE PIA
DO I NEED TO JUST SUCK IT UP
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OR

can some of you 'smart dudes' give me so hints from all your experience
I am projecting about 8-12 hours of work to tweak this all =by hand to edit the mobile variant
BTW
the HARDEST part = not tweaking each little section
but not that the site s 2x longer (taller)
is really hard to make an insert (ie add spaces to each section - ie slide the whole parts down)
someone told me before how to do that -- but was not so easy

thanks !