Expanding page to fill screeen - Need help for newbie please

[Littlegiantrme]

Chuck, there is a lot going on in any Xara design and by reining back early on you can learn what works without facing a set of knotted string to unravel.

I like historical projects.
I tried converting your massive History into a set of Xara pages for you.
Xara coped quite well with 415 pages and still around 65MB.

It probably makes more sense to unpack each of the PDFs in the PDF Portfolio and make each document available for separate download.
I would suggest creating an abstract of all the content less the images and offer a link to the imaged PDF.
That way the history text is only 0.5MB.

Do keep the original PDF as as a download too.

Whichever way you go, I wish you well.

Acorn

Thanks again. I might try breaking up the history pdf into year brackets to bring the size down. That way people can go through it in steps if they want.

Got lots to work on now, but at least I have a direction!

[ukDalek]

Just a passing thought after seeing your .web screenshot.

Creating from scratch isn't easy even for those on here who are accomplished website designers and html experts.

The only thing I would consider when making a new site is possibly using a modern looking template from the many that come included with Xara Web Designer Premium.

Getting that modern, clean look isn't easy from scratch.

Even if you looked at the templates at this stage, your work and hours spent so far isn't lost at all.

You can copy and paste a lot of what you've done so far into a modern looking slick website from a template. It's easy to browse them.

Just thought I'd add an option to think about.