Curiosity had the better of me here. I tried converting a WebPlus page into a Xara document (in my case Pro X v17.0). The most obvious page to try was the Site Map and to test whether all the links would come across.
The approach was simple enough: create a PDF from the page as displayed in a Chrome browser and import that PDF into a Xara web document. It was a bit messy at first with spurious linked line objects lurking underneath the text, but once removed you have the full formatting capabilities of Xara (text styles etc.).
Here is a demo:
https://initiostar.co.uk/demo/Preston/ - the links work from a new site/ directory page, the MouseOver colour change is a bit fiddly, but with patience you can check and change how each link is viewed and opened.
The next step was to create an index page that Xara would expect to be present (in this case it was simply the same PDF input approach using your new page). With the index page created, one can now create any number of new pages, transpose or access old pages as required. All this can be achieved within a single lightweight Xara document.
To complete the exercise Philip, should you wish, you need to create 3 server-side redirects in your .htaccess file (these are noted in the XAR document attached). The server-side redirects will ensure that your three primary WebPlus backlinks return the visitor to the new Xara equivalent pages. You may still have a conflict with the old index page and it may have to be deleted, but it is worth a try first. The redirects must be server-side, else you would have to change every page in your old WebPlus site.
Hope it helps and BTW, had no problems using the Georgia font throughout.
To extend integration further, you should be able to redesign your site/directory page with a 'WebPlus' placeholder whereby each WebPlus page opens in a WebPlus target window. You would likely need to increase your Xara page width around 1200px to make the design work, but rather than jumping out to another page, everything (I think) can be kept within the same page (because the WebPlus page width is relatively narrow). I haven't tried the last bit, but I think it should be possible using a named placeholder.
@Acorn, I think the last integration bit should work?
Happy New Year
Gary
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