What’s new in Xara Web Designer+

Xara is happy announce a great new website hosting deal for Xara users with OVHcloud. V24.4 includes seamless integration with OVHcloud, plus enhanced support for AVIF and animated GIFs.

The latest update to Xara Elements adds new choices for web design: 5 new modular website templates and 20 new sliders for the classic freeform websites.

Our latest Xara Elements update adds new professional-quality presentation and social media designs, catering to a wide range of industries.

Our 24.3 update includes a cool new Bookflip transition effect, some valuable updates to web blocks and a host of minor web fixes. Plus we’ve updated and localized Tips of the Day!

Another significant update to the template library with 5 new modular website designs (including sliders and 50 web blocks) and 20 new slider components for the classic freeform websites.

Lots of positive feedback on the new sliders (see v24.1), and with this update they’ve just got even better!

Plus (24.2.1) Improvements to FTP publishing.

We’ve just added 45 new slider designs to Elements / Designs Gallery, so you can make the most of this great new feature.

Plenty to explore in 24.1 including our new website sliders, a great way to showcase key information on your website in a compact and engaging way. Plus new line and border controls, AVIF export and more.

Our latest Elements update includes a huge selection of new icons and other assorted vector graphics, photo clipart and bitmap backgrounds.

Dip into our new graphic assets to find the perfect bit of extra color for your websites. Small effort, big return!

Discover new creative choices with video backgrounds and support for photo filters in web blocks, amongst other great web design updates. Plus there’s enhanced format support including AVIF, productivity improvements to existing functionality such as the QuickShape flyout, and more than 350 additions to the web content in Elements.

We’ve added a brand new Mockups template category that can add a whole new dimension to your design practice.

A whole host of improvements and fixes to smooth your workflow and increase your productivity. Updates include the mold tool, tables, Web Export and more.

440+ new Spring and Easter themed templates, photo clipart and illustrations for social media and web design.

Another step-up for Web Blocks including live dragging and the ability to save Web Blocks for use in other projects. Plus some welcome improvements for the Web Publishing workflow, and PDF import.

A highlight of 23.6 is the automatic resizing of Web Block mobile variants, making our new Modular Websites even easier to create. But there are plenty of other web and graphic design improvements to explore, and la nuova versione italiana!

Another major addition to Xara Elements (formerly Online Content Catalog) to increase your creative choices for web design:

• 5 new Website Templates
• 280+ new Web Blocks

Powerful new ‘Flexible Web Blocks’ offer a big step forwards for Modular Websites, a new way to help you create great websites in less time!

A significant boost to our content library to coincide with 23.5, all created with the new Flexible Web Blocks:

• 5 new Website Templates
• A new Section Headings Web Blocks category with 19 new blocks
• A new Sliders Web Blocks category with 2 blocks (more coming soon)
• 20 new Hero blocks

Plus 306 existing blocks and 29 websites have been updated to Flexible Web Blocks so you can make the most of this great new feature.

Check out the new Introduction to Blocks 2 document in First Look > Introduction.

Web Designer+ is now available in Dutch, French and Spanish (in addition to the existing English and German), all in one convenient installer.

We’ve added new options to help improve the look of your NavBar menus, and over 100 all-new NavBar designs to the Content Catalog (have you seen the movie?). Plus a clutch of useful web export improvements and fixes.

Our game-changing new Web Blocks will now work in your existing websites, amongst other web improvements in the latest update.

The installer now includes German versions, including a complete online user guide and knowledgebase.

Great news if you’re loving our new Web Blocks feature – we’ve added 12 new modular website templates, 92 new web blocks and almost 300 new page background styles. We guarantee that you won’t find a quicker and easier way to create that showstopper website of your dreams, and with all the new templates you can be sure that we have the layouts you need.

Most no-code website builders sacrifice customization for ease of use. We give you both.

We are excited to announce the launch of Web Blocks – Pre-built web page sections and templates that can be fully customized and combined to build showstopping ‘modular’ websites in minutes.

Blocks come with layouts, functionalities like e-commerce, media, forms, appointment management, and the tools you already use so you can leave the hassles, hidden costs, and headaches of website building in the past.

Our YouTube playlist will help you get started in minutes!

Another major addition to the Web Designer+ Online Content Catalog. We’ve added nearly 1200 new photo filter overlays in 4 new categories in Image Resources > Photo Filter Presets > Overlays (Light Rays, Night Sky, Rose Petal and additions to Light Leak). Photo overlays can be added to your photo, even on top of other photo filters, to provide a huge choice of creative possibilities.

Tables created with the new Xara Table tool and exported to Microsoft Word (in docx format) are now fully editable in Word. Xara tables should now also look visually correct when exported to Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx) presentations, although they’re not currently editable in PowerPoint (text can be edited but the table won’t update).

The template bonanza of 2022 continues with another 12 new website templates, all with the latest animation effects and SEO optimizations – and totally customizable to fit your business or personal website requirement:

• All include mobile variants
• A new wider 1280 pix wide main variant for the best possible results on your 4K monitors (but of course they auto scale to lower resolution on other devices)
• Default image export is now WebP for faster loading, giving a better experience for your visitors, and better SEO results too.

Hot off the press, a couple of additions to our new Table Tool to smooth your table workflow:

• A new ‘paste unformatted’ option, so you can copy and paste between table cells without styles if required
• And improved handling of multi-line text when copy and pasting data from external applications such as spreadsheets into your Xara tables

Another important step forward for our new Table Tool: You can now copy and paste data from spreadsheets or other external sources straight into your Xara tables.

Another huge update to the Web Designer+ Content Catalog.

We’ve added nearly 1300 new photo filter overlays in 4 new categories in Image Resources > Photo Filter Presets > Overlays (Bokeh, Color Gradient, Light Leak and Snow).

Why not explore the new overlays this autumn and see what you can do ensure your photos stand out from the crowd.

Christmas has come early with this massive update to the Online Content Catalog of Xara Web Designer+:

• 2 website themes (in addition to the 20 added last month in Websites > Creative Websites)
• 57 extra tables, so you can make the most of our brand new table tool
• 42 social media buttons to help you maximize the potential of your social media

Our great new table tool gets even better. Whatever your requirements – presenting data, comparing products, displaying prices to name just a few examples – it’ll be quick and easy in Xara:

• you can now re-order rows & columns with a simple click & drag
• an automatic way to convert old Smart tables to the new tables
• a host of other minor improvements & fixes, listed in full in the Web Designer+ Release Notes, including an interim 22.1.1 release

A major boost to your web design choices with 20 all-new website templates for Web Designer+ only. All fully customizable, and all with ready-made mobile variants.

Check out the new themes in the Web Designer+ Online Content Catalog > Websites > Creative Websites.

If you want to make your websites stand out from the crowd, then try adding some really slick tables. Maybe you want to compare products, plans or prices for example – but whatever your requirement, we’ve now got the table tool to make that easy!

You’ll find the new tool at the bottom of the left hand toolbar, full instructions in our Release Notes and more than 20 new professional table templates in the Online Content Catalog (all old ones are revised to work with the new tool too so that makes almost 50 – and you can easily create your own tables from scratch).

To mark the release of our new subscription version, Xara Web Designer+ has a brand new clean and modern look, that will enhance your everyday usage:

• The new darker background puts more focus on your design, with less user interface distractions
• There are new, clearer icon designs throughout
• All icons and mouse pointers are now High DPI, so they look sharp and clear on high resolution displays
• And other minor tweaks and improvements – for example in the Page & Layer Gallery, the Page names are now separated from the page thumbnails, so both are clearly visible.