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This short intro highlights some of the key features of Xara Web Designer.
Please install Flash® and turn on Javascript.
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- The Main Tools
- Selecting, moving, resizing and rotating objects
- Web page backgrounds
- Repelling Objects
- Editing text
- Website Preview
- Adding Photos
- Changing Website Colors
- Customizing a Heading
- Stacking order
- Push & Zoom
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Text Tool 1
- 3 types of text object
- Resizing columns of text
- Pseudo-Latin text
- Resizing Text
Text Tool 2
- Fonts - web safe fonts
- Rotation
- InfoBar controls - spell check
- Default Font size
- Paste from Word
- New text on top of old
Resizing Pages
- Resizing page vertically
- Moving page elements
- Changing page width
Photo Rollover Effects
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Button Bars 1
- Editing Button text
- Deleting & moving buttons
- Resizing buttons
- Adding pages
- Repeating NavBars on all pages
- Linking
- Copying Buttons
Button Bars 2 - Advanced
- Making button bars from stretchy objects
- Copying, moving, nudging buttons
- Soft Grouping buttons
Flow Text Around
- Text flow around objects
- Coloring photos with Theme linked colors
Photo Handling
- Drag and Drop replace
- Resizing & Rotate photos inside the frame
- Resizing the whole photo objects
- Photo Tool Infobar (brightness, contrast etc, blur / sharpen
- Auto-Enhance
- Compare
- Non-destructive editing
- Crop
- Pop-up photos
- Performance
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The following movies were recorded using Xara Xtreme, but show features shared by Web Designer. Some minor aspects of the movies
may differ from what you see in Web Designer, such as the icons, tool set and menus.
Selecting & Arranging
Colors and Effects
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Lines and Shapes
Customising Web Designer
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April 7: Photo Rollover Effects movie added
March 10: 5 movies added
February 25: Original movies added
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