Web Designer now supports Text Styles, a powerful way to alter the appearance of text throughout your document with just a few clicks.

Update an element of your Text Style eg font, color, line spacing etc, and all text with that Style applied throughout your document is instantly updated – headings, titles or body text. Consistent text styles help you create professional looking documents, and now it couldn’t be easier.

Styles are created, updated and applied via a new Styles drop-down menu on the Text Tool InfoBar.

Live Style preview
Simply select some text and then traverse the Style menu - the selection will change to show your text in each Style. It’s a quick and easy way to try out your Styles without having to actually select and undo each in turn.

Web Designer MX now allows you to embed 'inline graphics' in text using a simple Paste operation. Embedded graphics are great for really small items on the line such as symbols, icons etc, and are treated just like a 'character', in other words they flow and follow the same formatting rules as a character embedded in the text.

The new QR Code widget allots you to communicate text or the web address of the page that it is inserted on.

• 2 new web themes (usually sold for $10 each!) and new web graphic templates.
• Existing themes have been updated to support new features, such as the smart page resizing. Also in the updated templates many background items have been moved to the page background layer, which makes it much easier to move items around the page without accidentally moving background items.
• The Designs Gallery has been completely re-arranged and re-ordered to be more easily navigable.
• Live Designs Gallery. The Designs Gallery is now completely server linked, so we can update and add more templates, clipart, Widgets etc.
• 3000+ new items of traditional clipart and a selection of photo clipart (see the examples).

In previous versions of Web Designer you had to manually adjust the position of items on your page as you edited or added more text. Similarly you had to drag the bottom of the page down to make it longer as your content grew.

No longer! Web Designer now has the ability to make growing text areas automatically push other objects down the page, and also lengthen the page automatically to accommodate the enlarged text areas. Creating websites based on templates will now be considerably easier and faster.

We have also added several new Widgets to the collection in the classic version of Web Designer, including a photo slideshow and chart Widget (in the folder called Example Premium Widgets).

• You can now preview a Widget in the Widget document directly (you do not need to Close & Save it back to the original).
• When linking to other pages of your website from within a Widget editor, you’ll now see a list of all pages, making it very easy to link to any page in your website from within a Widget.

When you click on any item with a web link in Web Designer (not on the web page), a small pop-up appears giving you the option to follow the link, change it, or remove it - very useful if you want to test a link or view the linked page while you’re working on the document.

The new Share Menu puts the MX (Media Exchange) into Web Designer! All titles in the MAGIX/Xara range can share media files with each other and with some important third party services.

Using the new Share menu, the current selection (whether it’s a photo, or any other object) can be passed as a JPEG to other installed MAGIX MX applications (eg Movie Edit Pro MX), to MAGIX Online Album, and to Flickr and Facebook.

• 'Import graphics from the Web' has been improved and now imports graphics and text from a web page, and places them in the right position on the page. Note that since most websites use scripts, mouse-over effects and hidden objects and text, this will rarely produce a WYSIWYG result, but it is very useful for importing all graphics and text from an existing website.
• Improved Copy / Paste of HTML items from other applications such as web browsers (Note the same restrictions apply as above).
• Improved PDF import.

Re-position / Delete / Cut or Copy multiple pages
It’s now possible to select more than one page in the Page & Layer Gallery and re-position them with drag & drop. Plus there’s right click access to menu options to Delete, Cut or Copy the selection of pages to the clipboard. You can go into another document and paste whole pages.

You can now also drag objects into and out of ordinary groups in the Gallery (note this is not supported for special groups like anchored groups, repeating groups, etc).

The color editor is now resizable, which is particularly useful when editing very pale shades of a color in the top right area of the color picker.

An updated 'Optimize all images' function will scan all graphics and images in your document  - now including PNGs as well as JPEGs - and convert them to the optimum size and optimum image type. This can substantially reduce memory use and .web file sizes. (NB this is a destructive operation).

You are also given the option to optimize images to JPEG when importing, if Web Designer recommends it.

The button order in the NavBar now matches that of the Page Gallery. If you re-order pages your NavBar buttons will reflect this change.

Improved formatting support for character based languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

Right clicking over any empty area of the button bars on the Web Designer window will show a context menu to quickly enable or disable any tool bar.

A new 'Lock page size' option has been added in the 'Page Options' dialog. This can prevent accidental drag resize of the lower or right page edge.

Delete Page:	Delete
Move Page Up:	PageUp
Move Page Down:	PageDown
Push margins dialog:	Ctrl+Shift+H
Toggle Push attribute on selection:	Ctrl+H
Preview Website:	F5
Preview current web page:	Shift + F5

Also MX is smart about the lack of mouseovers and mouse pointers on iOS devices – the first tap on a button or link will now follow the link, a second tap isn’t necessary.

Improved Incremental Publishing, making it smarter about publishing updates.

Photo Enhance Tool now includes a tool for adjusting the hue on a photo. Any color can be selected and the strength of the hue adjustment controlled.

A new option to turn off the fly-out galleries.

The 'Preview Page' and 'Preview Website' buttons have been placed beside each other on the top bar, for easier, quicker access and provided with new F5 and Shift+F5 key short cuts.

Page Guides are now turned on and 'snap to guides' enabled automatically if you attempt to drag a guideline onto a page when the guides are turned off.

Ctrl+rotate now aligns any straight edge vertically or horizontally.

Images that are created during the export process from objects that include text, now have that text set as ‘Alt’ text on the image. So for example a graphical heading that shows the text “Widgets From John Smith” will now have that text set as image Alt text. This means the text can be indexed by search engines even though it’s presented as an image on the page, and it will be picked up by ‘read aloud’ tools used by the visually impaired.