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This short intro highlights some of the key features of Xara Web Designer.

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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


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

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



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
Lines and Shapes
Customising Web Designer

April 7: Photo Rollover Effects movie added
March 10: 5 movies added
February 25: Original movies added