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Version 7 introduced an Installation Manager to guide you through the process of installing the program and the program contents. If the first attempt to dow |
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| Beginner's Guide To Web Designer |  |
| View a movie on the key things you need to know in order to operate Xara Web Designer.You can also visit webdesigner.x |
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| Can Xara import movie files into the program? | |
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Designer Pro and Web Designer Premium accept FLV and MP4 movie files.How Do I insert my video file?The recommended method is to drag - drop your FLV/ MP4 file from windows |
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| I receive the message Internal Program Error 1420.k.no.ar when adding or deleting a page | |
| The Internal Program Error 1420.k.no.ar or similar message can occur when attempting to add, duplicate or remove pages. The error is caused by a rogue navbar state being present on one or more of your web pages.We recommend submitting a support |
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| How does Xara handle crash reports? | |
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The sending of the crash report to Xara simply sends the crash information file to our FTP server. It does not tell us which crash dump file on the server is yours without you also submitting a ticket that includes the crash dump identifier and preferab |
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| How do I add repeating objects to a selection of my pages rather than all? | |
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Adding repeating objects to just a few pages rather than all can be achieved by following the steps below. First make your object repeat on all pages of your site, using Arrange->’Repeat on all pages’.Select one of the re |
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| Can I anchor objects? | |
| The ability to repel groups and composite objects was introduced in version 5. Version 6 introduced anchoring which allowed you to anchor groups and composite objects. Version 7 allows for the same group or composite object to be repelled as well as anch |
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| How do I create a Sitemap? | |
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A Sitemap consists of a list of pages belonging to your website and is used by Search engines to find the pages within your site.Version 7 allows for the creation of a Sitemap which is uploaded to y |
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Web Designer MX questions have been divided into the following categories. Click the required
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| Web Designer MX Questions Part 2 | |
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Web Designer MX questions have been divided into the following categories. Click the required
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| How Do I add a favicon to my Web page? | |
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Version 7To create a 'favicon', draw or drag on to a web page the image that you want to use. The image can be any size as it will be scaled to the right size automatically w |
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| What are the system requirements for Xara Web Designer? | |
| The minimum system requirements for Web Designer 9 and Web Designer 9 Premium are: Windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8. 500 MB RAM, 300 MB hard disk space. Intel® Celeron® or newer, or AMD® Sempron® or newer. Both Web Designe |
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| Can I resize the Eyecatcher widgets? | |
| The Eyecatcher widgets provided in version 7 are fixed sized widgets. The ability to resize widgets has been introduced in version 8. To resize a widget, click on it to display its selection handles. Click and hold down your left mouse butto |
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| Are there any restrictions on the use of graphics created with Xara software? | |
| The license terms may vary from version to version and so we recommend that you check the license terms in the product, which you will find in the help (search on license if you cannot see the link on the welcome page).Note these terms ap |
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| What type of HTML is exported by Xara Web Designer? | |
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Xara Web Designer exports documents as XHTML and uses a transitional DOCTYPE allowing for W3C valid XHTML files to be exported. The positioning of objects within the exported page is managed using absolute positioned divs. The code uses a combinatio |
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| Can I edit the CSS file to change the appearance of my website in Web Designer? | |
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Web Designer is a WYSIWYG product and that means external CSS styles are of little to no value. The point of external styles is that you can change them e.g. to change font style or HTML colors etc. But editing external style sheets breaks the very poin |
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| I've been told that your Web Designer HTML is not 'professional' because it doesn't use external CSS and uses 'divs' for text placement. | |
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This is a misunderstanding of the point of Xara Web Designer. Our goal is to provide a tool for designers, not programmers, to have absolute freedom to place anything anywhere, and to offer the first truly accurate WYSIWYG freeform design tool, that del |
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| I've heard it suggested that it's a good idea to separate design from content and that Web Designer does not promote this separation. | |
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This idea is relevant in technical worlds such as programming, but is not applicable, or practical, in the world of design-led solutions. (The idea was invented by programmers, not designers!) Websites are no different from any other visual media, suc |
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| I've been told the lack of certain HTML tags in Web Designer websites such as < H1 > or < li > hinders search engines. | |
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This is not true at all. Search engines index the text and do not take into account any specific HTML tags when indexing your website. The text, not the tags or the level of heading, is what matters and is indexed. Many experts have even suggested that |
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| How can I change the theme colors in Xara Web Designer? | |
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| How can I access installed templates in Xara Web Designer? | |
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Installed templates are available in the Designs Gallery. Click on File followed by 'New in the Designs Gallery' to view the available templates, or click on the Designs Gallery icon in the Galleries menu. |
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| How do I set the file name for each of the pages in my Web Designer website? | |
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Xara Web Designer allows you to set individual page names for all the pages in the document. Open Website Properties via the Utilities menu and click on the Page tab.Enter a Page filename and click on Apply in order to apply a name to the sele |
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| Can I update objects across multiple pages in Xara Web Designer? | |
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Xara Web Designer allows you to update many objects at once across one or several pages. This enables you to edit the logo for example on one page or move its position and cause the logo to be repeated in the same place on the other pages in your we |
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| Which fonts should I apply to my text when creating a web page in Xara Web Designer? | |
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The fonts menu displays a list of available fonts which you can apply to your text. The computer of the person visiting your website will apply a different font to your text if it does not have the font you have applied installed.In or |
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| How do I convert my text into graphics in Web Designer? | |
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You may wish to use a font other than a web safe font when using text in buttons or headings. Simply group the object (Ctrl + G).The text will remain editable but will be converted into a graphic on export. It can be grouped by itself or wit |
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| What is the advantage of applying a Soft Group in Web Designer? | |
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A Soft Group is similar to a Group but with several key differences.A Soft Group can contain items across one or even several layers. Selecting an item on one layer will automatically select the corresponding soft grouped items on the o |
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| Will my Web Designer site display or navigation be affected if my site visitor has JavaScript disabled? | |
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A visitor to your website will still be able to navigate through your site, even if they have JavaScript disabled. Although all rollover and pop-up effects will not appear, the site visitor will still be able to click on the links on the buttons and |
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| How can I make an object stretch in Xara Web Designer? | |
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Many of the web pages and individual items in the themes in the Designs Gallery have stretching applied. One example is the design named Panel 1 from the Zero Degrees Theme within the Designs Gallery.The back panel will stretch and contract d |
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| Can I create multi page websites in Xara Web Designer? | |
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It's simple to create multi page sites in Xara Web Designer. The easiest way is to use one of the themes from the Designs Gallery. Open the Designs Gallery and select a page from one of the available themes. Each theme in Web Designer 6 con |
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| Can I have variable sized pages in Xara Web Designer? | |
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Xara Web Designer does not force each page of your website to be the same size. This allows you to have pages in your site of varying sizes. If you do want to force all pages to be the same size then select Utilities followed by Options and select |
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| Can I increase the length of my page in Web Designer? | |
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The Width and Height of a web page can be altered from the Page Size tab in Options (Select Utilities followed by Options). You can select a default page size from the drop list or select Custom and specify your own width and height.The page h |
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| How do I set my website link colors and underline in Web Designer? | |
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The Default Mouse off, Mouse over and Visited color can be set from the Website tab via Web Properties. The Website Link Colors section enables you to set the colors for the default states and specify whether text links should be underlined. |
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| Can I apply Alt and title text to my images in Web Designer? | |
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Alternative text (known as Alt text) is displayed by a web browser in place of an image when the browser fails to retrieve the image. Internet Explorer displays the Alt text even when the image is sucessfully retrieved by the web browser when you ho |
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| How can I set the image type for my graphics and photos? | |
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Xara Web Designer will automatically select the best format to export a graphic when exporting your website. You can however manually specify the export type. Select an object in your web page and open Web Properties from the Utilities menu, |
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| Is there a quick method to create an enlarged photo from my thumbnail? | |
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Xara Web Designer provides a quick method of displaying an enlarged photo when clicking on a thumbnail image. Simply select a thumbnail in your web page and click on the Link icon from the Website toolbar.Select the radio button labelled |
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| How can I replace the photos used in the templates? | |
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You can replace any of the photos used in the web page templates in the Designs Gallery. It's common to have used the same photo on different layers within your page. For this reason, Web Designer will silently replace all instances of the ph |
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| Can I create a graduated color background in Web Designer? | |
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As specified in the help:Draw a tall thin rectangle. This needs to be as tall as any user is likely to make their browser window so it doesn't repeat vertically. A value of 1000 pixels or more is recommended. You may need to zoom out to d |
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| How do I set the background color of my pages in Web Designer? | |
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The background color in the web templates in the Designs Gallery is usually set by altering one of the Theme Colors used in the design.You can set the background color in your own document by dragging and dropping a color from the Color Line o |
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| Is there a spell checker available? | |
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Xara Web Designer and Xara Xtreme provide a spell checker which can be accessed by selecting the Text tool and clicking on the last icon on the right side of the Text tool InfoBar. The icon will display the title text 'Spell checker' when placing yo |
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| Which languages does the spell checker support? | |
| The following languages are currently supported for spell checking:English US and UKDutchFrenchGerman (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)Italian Portuguese (Portugal)Spanish |
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| How do I create a placeholder in Xara Web Designer? | |
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A Placeholder is an object in Xara Web Designer which you replace with another embedded object. A Placeholder can be replaced with HTML Code, a Flash file or another graphic file. This allows you to embed a great number of services directly in to a |
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| Does replacing an object with Flash cause the Flash SWF file to be exported with my web page? | |
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Clicking on Replace with Flash from the Placeholder | Web Properties dialog and selecting the Flash (.SWF) file you wish to insert automatically causes the flash file to be copied into "_files&q |
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| Can I insert Google Analytics or another site tracking service within my website? | |
| There are several services out there which allow you to track your website and view reports on your site visits. Many of these services require you to insert a tracking code into every page you wish to track (Google analytics for example).The |
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| Can I insert Flash files in my web site with Web Designer? | |
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Xara Web Designer allows you to insert Flash files (.swf files) in your web pages. The swf file being inserted does not need to be created in Web Designer. You can therefore insert a Flash file in your web page which has been created in any program |
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| Can I insert external widgets in to my web page? | |
| Xara Web Designer allows you to replace any object with HTML code. This allows you to easily insert external objects in to your web pages such as videos from You Tube, Google maps, flash movies, photo albums and many, many other types of widgets/gadgets. |
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| Can I insert an iframe in my web page? | |
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Xara Web Designer allows you to insert any HTML via the Placeholder tab accessed via the Website Properties dialog. This means you can insert an iframe in to your webpage created in Xara Web Designer.
Information on creating an iframe and its attr |
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| Can I insert a mailto link in Xara Web Designer? | |
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Xara Web Designer allows you to apply a link to any object. Simply select the object you wish to apply an email link to, open Web Properties from the Utilities menu and click on the Link tab. |
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| Can I create anchor links in Xara Web Designer? | |
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You can link to any text or object anywhere in your website by creating an anchor link. Begin by applying a name to the object you want to link to (known as the anchor). Click on the item (which can be a graphic or some text) with your |
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| Can I cause my link to open the target page in a new window? | |
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It is common to want to open a web page you are linking to in a different window to the window you are viewing the current web page in. This is easily achieved in Xara Web Designer from within the Link tab in Web Properties. Select an objec |
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| How do I link to an object in another layer with Web Designer? | |
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Xara Web Designer allows you to link to objects in another layer than the main current layer. This is useful for a variety of reasons and could for example be used to cause a larger version of a photo to display when mousing or clicking on a |
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| How do I apply meta tags to my web page in Web Designer? | |
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Xara Web Designer allows you to apply page title, description and keywords for each individual page in your document. Additionally a default title, description and keywords can be applied globally to every page in your document.Select Web Pro |
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| Does Web Designer support Active or Passive FTP? | |
| Xara Web Designer supports both Active and Passive FTP. The program will try Passive FTP initially and if this fails then switch to Active. |
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| Can I configure the default location on my server to which my website will be published? | |
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Web servers will transfer you to a particular directory when accessing the server via FTP. This may or may not be the directory to which you should publish your website, and will depend on which directory your host has configured as your default. A |
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| Can I set the publishing details per document in Web Designer? | |
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The current version of Xara Web Designer does not allow different FTP details to be set per document. The information entered in the Publish tab in the Web Properties dialog is stored and applied globally to any document you open in Xara Web Designer. |
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| How do I publish my website from Xara Web Designer? | |
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You will need to upload your website to your web space provided by your hosting company. If you do not have a location to host your website then we recommend completing a search via google for 'web hosting' and you will find many companies offering web |
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| When I publish from Web Designer I get the message: The server name or host could not be resolved. | |
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If you encounter the error 'The Server name or host could not be resolved' when publishing from Web Designer, please initially check to ensure the FTP Details you have entered in the Publishing tab are correct. Note, hosts will often provide y |
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| Can I create buttons and button bars in Xara Web Designer? | |
| You can use any of the designs found in the Designs Gallery in the folder named Buttons to create your own NavBars (button bars), and in V6 and later there are also NavBar templates. You will also find buttons and NavBars within each of the website th |
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| Can I import my existing website in to Xara Web Designer? | |
| Web Designer is not a HTML editor, so it cannot be used to open your existing website created in Frontpage, Dreamweaver or any other web authoring tool.
Web Designer MX does have an Import from Web feature which will import the images, graphics |
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| Does Web Designer support a dynamic template page? | |
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Some web page creation software allows you to create a template page which you can edit and have the edits applied to all the pages within your website. There is no need to have a template page in Xara Web Designer. The program allows you to h |
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| Can I use Web Designer with FrontPage or Dreamweaver? | |
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There is no need to use FrontPage, Dreamweaver or any other web authoring program with Xara Web Designer. Unlike Webstyle, Web Designer will provide you with the freedom to complete your d |
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| Can I create my own web pages in Web Designer? | |
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Web Designer allows you to design your web pages from scratch. You are therefore not restricted to using one of the many templates found in the Designs Gallery and have complete creative freedom when it come |
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| Can I cause my text to flow around other objects in my page in Web Designer? | |
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Xara Web Designer supports a feature called Liquid Text. Any object can have 'Repel text under' applied to it causing text which is below the stacking order of the object to wrap around the object. Enabling Repel on an object is easy. Click |
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| How do I create a NavBar in Xara Web Designer? | |
| Xara Web Designer provides a range of buttons and button bar templates in the folders in the Designs Gallery. Simply drag and drop the button or button bar template you wish to use in your web page. Insert it in all pages of your site with ease by se |
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| Can I insert a NavBar from Menu Maker or Webstyle in Web Designer / Designer Pro? | |
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The following applies toXara Web Designer Xara Designer Pro Xara Web Designer allows you to insert external objects within your web page and this includes navigation bars from Menu Maker or Webstyle. |
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| Can I create forms in Xara Web Designer? | |
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Web Designer 6 has a number of form widgets integrated within the program. Open the Design Gallery and expand the folder labelled Form Widgets (Download)The form widgets contains a number of form provid |
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| I am unable to preview my web page in Web Designer. | |
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Selecting to preview your web page from Web Designer can result in the browser window displaying a blank page rather than the page you selected to preview. A possible cause of this problem is your antivirus software preventing the preview f |
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| Is there a photo editor provided in Xara Web Designer? | |
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Xara Web Designer provides a photo tool allowing you to complete the common photo editing tasks directly from in the program.Click on the Photo Tool from the program tool bar on the left to access the program editing features. |
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| Why does Web Designer apply each line of text into a separate div? | |
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This is necessary to explicitly control the positioning and the length of the text strings and allows the text to render at the same length in the browser as you see in the program. Our primary goal was absolute WYSIWYG, as accurate as we can get it |
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| Can I import my Webstyle or Menu Maker template packs into Web Designer | |
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The templates from webstyle or menu maker cannot be directly imported into Web Designer. You can however import the individual vector objects used to create a template in Webstyle or Menu Maker into Web Designer.The objects whic |
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| Can I see an example site created with Web Designer? | |
| Yes, take a look at webdesigner.xara.com. This site was created with Web Designer 9, it is also an introduction to using the product. You can find the document itself in the Designs Gallery of Web Designer |
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| Are websites created with Xara mobile friendly? | |
| Websites made with our software are ready for iOS and the latest Android smart phones and tablets (iPad, iPhone, Android phones…). We‘ve invested significant effort in making all of our website templates and features ready for mobile devices, so that you |
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| How do I create a custom control bar? | |
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1. Select Window followed by Control bars. 2. Click on the button labelled new. Name your control bar and click on OK to insert.3. To insert Buttons within the bar, scroll down and select the check box labelled |
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| An error is displayed when previewing/exporting my web page / A dll error is displayed by Web Designer.. | |
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If you encounter this specific problem (the "Unable to find the filter to import that file with" error when trying to export, preview or publish your website) it would be very helpful if you could assist us in trying to track down the cause of |
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| Can I left align my web page in Xara Web Designer? | |
| The program does not provide a control to alter the alignment of your web page. You can however cause each of the web pages in your document to be exported as left aligned by inserting the following code in to the website tracker code field in the Web |
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| Can I export pages with an extension other than .htm or .html | |
| The first page within your document will always be exported with either a .htm or .html extension. Web Designer allows you to export all subsequent pages with any file extension. Open the Web properties dialog and select the Page tab. Apply the pag |
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| Can I apply code within the Head section of my web page? | |
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This article applies to Xara Xtreme 5 and later and Xara Web Designer 5 and later 1. Create a placeholder and position it anywhere within.2. Click on the Apply name icon ( |
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| Does Web Designer have an auto backup mechanism? | |
| A new feature of Web Designer 6 is the introduction of Auto Backups.This will periodically save the document to a specified location, which could be a local hard drive, network location or an ext |
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| Why does Web Designer 6 open previous documents on startup? | |
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This is a feature of the new backup system where it will re-open any documents that were open when the program was shut down.This feature is controlled from Utilities | Options | Backup tab. |
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| Does Web Designer publish the entire site each time I edit my document? | |
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Incremental publishing is supported in Web Designer 6. When you initially publish your site, the entire site is uploaded to your server. Subsequent edits to your document will cause only those files that have changed to be uploaded.Increme |
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| Can Web Designer create drop down menu bars? | |
| Web Designer 6 now comes with the ability to create drop down menus.Import a single button from the Designs Gallery. Select the Arrange menu followed by |
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| How do I stop an object from repeating on all pages? | |
| You can prevent an object from repeating in Web Designer 6Select the object you wish to stop repeatingSelect the Arrange menu followed by Stop Repeating |
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| Can I preview just one page on my website? | |
| Web Designer 6 gives you the option to view a single page in your website or the whole website depending on your needs.Preview page |
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| Will files saved in Web Designer 5 load in Web Designer 6? | |
| Files saved from previous versions of Xtreme or Web Designer will open in Web Designer 6. |
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| What is the _web_files folder used for? | |
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support folder , web files, web designer A folder called [filename]_web_files folder is created when saving your document if your document contains any external files. As an example, assume you had inserted a flv file into your |
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| Does Web Designer export 'Pure HTML Blocks'? | |
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Web Designer 6 and later provides you with the ability to override the individual line positioning and force each paragraph of text to be output as a single unbroken HTML <p> block |
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| Internal Program Error 58.w.fi.nd is displayed when publishing my website | |
| Internal Program Error 58.w.fi.nd can be displayed during a publish operation from Web Designer. The warning is shown towards the end of the publish operation. |
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| I'm seeing problems with my website in Internet Explorer 8. | |
| Internet Explorer 8 displays web pages in IE8 Standards mode. Due to the differences between versions of IE, there can be differences in behaviour and display when viewing pages in IE 8. For this reason, Web Designer 5 exported pages as IE7 |
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| Can I automatically add buttons to my Navbar when adding new pages to my document? | |
| This article relates to:Web Designer 6A site navigation bar automatically links to all pages and appears on all pages within a document. Adding a new page will cause the site navigation t |
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| I encounter timeout messages when attempting to publish. | |
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There could be a number of reasons why your publish operation from Web Designer/Designer Pro is not successful. Providing a log file will assist us in identifying what's causing the problem.
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| Can I apply a background image to my web page? | |
| Import your image in to the program. Next open the Bitmap Gallery and ctrl + drag and drop the image onto the pasteboard area. The image will automatically be tiled.To remove the background, simp |
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| Links to the current page are not exported as links. | |
| Since version 6, all links pointing to the current page are removed and if they have a rollover state, then the state is made permanently visible. This behaviour can be disabled by applyi |
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| Where can I find information on the free web hosting? | |
| Web Designer, Web Designer Premium, Designer Pro and Photo & Graphic Designer v7 and v8 include a free hosting offer from MAGIX Online World, with 500 MB of web space. V7 and v8 owners can find information at |
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| Can I Insert MP3 files into Web Designer? | |
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Widgets are the easiest way to embed MP3 within your web page. There are several suitable widgets listed at: http://www.xara.com/us/widgets/v5/music and addi |
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| My website is not displaying after publishing | |
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A web page may not appear when visiting your domain name for several reasons1. What name have you applied to the first page of your document? Select the first page, and go to the Page |
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| What is Auto-downsizing of imported photos | |
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Most modern digital cameras produce very high resolution images, that are typically unnecessarily large. These take a lot of memory and can produce very large files. For example importing a typical 5 MByte digit |
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| Can I optimize my images using Xara software? | |
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Yes. The ability to optimize a photo was introduced in version 5 and can be accessed by right clicking on an image and selecting the optimize photo option. Version 6 has simplified the Photo Optimize dialog and introduced an Optimize All JP |
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| Can I resize a photo to be 1:1 | |
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Version 6 Photo tool on the Infobar has a new icon which will resize the image back to
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| Can I create bullet and numbered lists? | |
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Yes Version 6 provides you with the ability to apply bullet and numbered lists as well as indents and these controls are available from the Text Tool Infobar. |
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| How can I change the font used on a site navigation bar <!-- text label, navbar buttons--> | |
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You can alter the font applied to a site navigation bar without ungrouping the bar.Editing the text on a site navigation barUsing the selector tool, click once on the site navigatio |
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| How do I Insert a Youtube video within my web page? | |
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Information on inserting a Youtube video in Version 5 of Xtreme and Web Designer can be viewed from here |
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| How do I insert my Google Analytics tracking code | |
| Google used to require the code to be inserted prior to the closing body tag and not within the head section of a web page. If you are therefore using urchin.js. or ga.js to track your sites then follow the instructions from |
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| I receive the message ‘Video not found’ when attempting to play my .mp4 file after publishing my website. | |
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- If the file is located within this folder then its possible the server is not configured to serve .mp4 files. Please check to ensure a mime type has been added for .mp4 files or contact your hosts to get them to check this for you.- |
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| Can I password protect my website or certain pages of my website? | |
| At present there are a variety of widgets which could be integrated into a site to achieve this functionality. An example widget provider is http://www.poppydog.com/. or at |
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| How to insert a video to play on a pop-up layer | |
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Links on web pages do not only have to link to other webpages, they can link to show hidden layers within the same page, for example to show a layer which contains a video, photo, iframe or any other content.Please download the accompanying |
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| Am I restricted to a set number of images within a Photo Gallery template | |
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The Photo Gallery templates accessible from within the Photo Galleries folder in the design gallery contain a set number of images. You can replace these images with your own and the easiest method to do this is to simply drag and drop multiple images f |
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| Why can I not select my linked object after exporting my site? | |
| If you have exported or previewed your site and notice that you cannot click on an object that has a link applied to it, it may be because you have an objects bounding box on top of the linked object in the stacking order.To resolve this |
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| Tweakset for Web Designer and Designer Pro | |
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Web Designer 7/ Designer Pro 7
Forum thread: Click here | Tweakset: |
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| Undocumented and Advanced Web Features | |
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Click here to view the thread on TalkGraphics
This is a complete list of the new special names and advanced Web features introduced in W |
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| FTP - "Permission denied" error | |
| Permission denied errors can occur for a couple of reasons when you are trying to publish your website.The most likely reason is that the correct, or full FTP details have not been entered in the Publish tab of Web Properties. Therefore |
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| Web Designer 7.02 Fixes | |
| The 7.02 update was released on April 1st 2011 to resolve a problem that affected the exporting of the new “Eye Catcher” widgets that are available in Web Designer Premium.The 7.0.0 and 7.0.1 versions of Web Designer Premium included a bug tha |
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| Can an anchored object repel many text areas? | |
| Since version 7, an object can be set to anchor as well as repel. An object with both repel and anchoring applied will only repel the text it is anchored to. |
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| Can I preview my site locally prior to publishing? | |
| All versions of Web Designer contains an in-built browser window which is accessed by selecting to preview website or preview page from the file menu.Preview websitePreview website exports all the |
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| Can I edit all aspects of the Eyecatcher widgets? | |
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The Eyecatcher widgets are pre-created effects which allow you to alter the main content that is displayed when viewing the widget within a web browser. It is currently not possible to edit every aspect of an Eyecatcher widget and each widget displ |
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| How do I create a free MAGIX Online World account for my web hosting? | |
| Web Designer 7 and later, Web Designer 7 Premium and later and Designer Pro 7 and later all include a free MAGIX Online World web hosting account, which comes with 500MB web space.To take advantage of this free offer from MAGIX simply create a M |
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| What is the Locate button within the Designs Gallery used for? | |
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With Locate mode enabled, clicking on any object within a page will cause the object to be shown as selected and highlighted within the Page and Layer Gallery. The Locate mode is enabled by clicking on the Locate button available from the Pa |
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| Can I insert widgets within layers that have transition effects applied? | |
| Many widgets won’t work properly if they are used on pop-up layers or layers that appear with an animated transition effect. Some simple widgets will work fine in these circum |
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| Are there any limitations within the Remote Presentations? | |
| Information on creating Remote Presentations can be found within the program help.LimitationsOnly 'next step', 'previous step', 'page down', 'page up' operations, and ordinary web links, are tra |
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| How do I view additional pages within my document? | |
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Web Designer 7 displays open documents in Single page view. You can browse to other pages within your document by opening the Page & Layer Gallery and clicking on the page you wish to view. Alternatively, you |
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| My popup images do not overlap my YouTube video. | |
| At the time of writing, YouTube's embed code is included within an iframe. If your pop up images are displaying behind the YouTube video then making the following alteration to the YouTube embed code will resolve the problem. |
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| Memory is getting low warning. | |
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The program completes a series of tasks to try and ensure sufficient memory is available when attempting to export your document or when selecting to preview your document as a website. If the program is using over 1GB of memory, the following |
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| Can I insert a table within my website document? | |
| There is currently no table tool within the program, however a table can be inserted within a variety of ways1. Create a placeholder and code your own HTML table. See this support article for how to create a placeholde |
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| How to insert a Facebook Plugin into your web page | |
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This article is written specifically for the Facebook Like button, so the size of the rectangle is the size of the Like Button by default when the widget is added. Similar steps will also work for the other Facebook widgets.To display you |
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| I cannot find the Magix widgets in the Designs Gallery | |
| The Magix widgets have been temporarily removed from the Designs Gallery while the service is being updated.In the meantime you can still access these widgets by going to www.magix-online.com then click |
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| How do I upload files to Xara Support? | |
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Sign in to your Xara account at http://support.xara.com and click the link labelled Submit a Ticket. Select the required department and click on |
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| I have lost my website design document, how can I edit my website? | |
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In order to continue editing your website as you were you must use the saved copy of your .web file, which is the file you work on in Web Designer. This is the most important file in your websi |
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| Why is the text within templates not in English? | |
| Body text in any of the templates is placeholder text to show the aesthetics of the text in the template, select this text with the text tool and replace the text with your own text
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| My program will not start and I encounter the message 'Application requires CPU support for SSE2 but this CPU does not support it' | |
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You are seeing this this message because the processor you are using does not have new enough technology to run the program (does not meet the minimum requirements for the program). SSE2 is a processor instruction set which was introduced in Intel pr |
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| How do I transfer saved FTP profiles between program versions? | |
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You can save FTP publishing details to a document, so this is the way in which it's easiest to transfer these details between different versions.
Open a new or existing document in your current version then go to Utilities -> Web Propert |
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| Web Designer 9 Part 1 | |
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#license { margin:2% 0 0 0; width:625px;}
p {font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12px;}
p {font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12px;}
p.italic {font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:11 |
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| Can I use the photos in the templates? | |
| In the case of templates that include photos, there may be some restrictions on the commercial use of the photos, contact Xara for more information, naming the product / template and photo that you are interested in. Also note that the photos ar |
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