Godaddy web designer

[behzad]

Just tried godaddy web builder and it is amazing. It has so much more than what Xara is offering. Anyone else tried it?

[gwpriester]

My web designing days are over. But it makes sense for GoDaddy to offer something like this.

[behzad]

Oh dear friend, mine too. If I do make a small site, I might use theirs since it includes hosting and SSL. I have downscaled big time after the death of my parents. Still some freelance money is useful. I joined this site only 2 years after you Gary.

[Egg Bramhill]

Behzad, the TG server was reset in Aug 2000. So all folks who were members prior to that date had their join date reset to Aug 2000. Gary has been a TG member far longer than that, it was once hosted by iu/s or similar, I can't remember now, so long ago

[behzad]

Wow, and we are still together here. So nice. I am getting goosebumps

[Daniel]

It's kind of sad that there's none of the i/us forum content archived in the Wayback Machine, but lots of Xara's old webpages are covered. I remember laughing back then, that the Windows 98 Show closes at 5pm every day, "except on Friday 13 when it closes at 4:30pm, possibly for superstitious reasons" and at a later show, buying a post-Corel version of Xara where they used an old style credit card imprinter: I still have the receipt for that somewhere, over 20 years later... while today's thermal printed receipts are rarely legible after 20 weeks.

[Acorn]

Just tried godaddy web builder and it is amazing. It has so much more than what Xara is offering. Anyone else tried it?

behzad, I have not tried GoDaddy but have used the reportedly better Wix equivalent.
I may be missing the point as you were totally opposed to a Xara subscription model but GoDaddy/Wix are pure subscription.
They are also very specifically domain-centric. So if you build a site for a client you need to purchase a Premium subscription for that, regardless of what you have developed with in your subscription.

A Xara design doesn't have these constraints; you just need somewhere to publish. So only annual hosting with no other costs.

Designing with these is a totally different mindset. If the design is required Marketing, Payments & e-Commerce then they are the way to develop.

Acorn

[behzad]

Yes dear friend. For years I have waited for blog, payment & e-commerce plus slew of other features sometimes very basic features and none are available in xara. I am greatful to xara for having kicked off my web design business but do not solely work on websites. Even with me having to hand over my godaddy to my client or their next in live godaddy designer, it is an easy job but not with xara. Also web hosting is provided with godaddy, everything is in one place including SEO and clients prefer that. Wix sucks, just recently did a wix one for a client and I did not enjoy using their interface.

Times have changed and xara is behind. I will continue my current version of xara but will not conform to their monthly plan unless I am fully into running my business again, at that time for web design there are plenty options out there. Nothing lasts forever, everything is changing including AI being implemented into web design. Xara changed their plan first from a graphic program to a web design program and ignored those campers that wanted tools for graphics to match those of other companies offering but xara decided to go on cloud and do something totally different. You guys know me well enough and I do not want to bitch all the time. I can manage to do most work for client website easily but not the ones you and I mentioned. Data base is another one, E-commerce that actually is more than a paypal plugin or icon to checkout. Ok I must shutup.

[Acorn]

behzad, I am afraid your will continue to have a long wait. Xara appears not be be in the game of becoming a service provider.
With an unknown slew of possible platforms, it would be next to impossible to support.

If you want a Xara Chat, there may be a first-party or third-party Widget for that. If not suitable, you can roll your own.
That is the freedom that come with Xara, you don't get spoonfed.

Xara provides enough hooks for you to do this.

Acorn

[Acorn]

As a newbie I am wondering to know when xara appears in the game?

Goodbye wilson. Sorry you had to leave TG so quickly.
We don't tolerate SPAMmers. Ever!

Acorn