This program lets you create a professional-looking website pages in an easy way. You don't need to be an html wizard to create a good webpage. Using the program, you have access a wide variety of templates that you can use "as is" or adapt them to your needs. If you decide to use a template (which you can get from the developer by paying the corresponding fee), it is possible to edit it differently, from simply substituting the text and headers, to changing the color pattern, adding photos, shapes and/or clipart, and so on.
If you decide to start from scratch, you can select the resolution for your project, as well as its size. Again, you can add photos, shapes, clipart, text, and use the color scheme you need. The program has all the tools you need to perform these and many more functions.
Maybe the only drawback of the program is its cost, which is not very affordable. Nevertheless, you can try the program before deciding whether you want to buy it or not. To download the trial version, you need to register during the installation process by typing your e-mail address and choosing your country. The trial version can be used for 7 days. You can extend the trial period to 30 days by registering your copy at the developer's website.
v7.1 [Sep 21, 2011]
New widgets. Make your websites eye-catching and dynamic with our new smart widgets that enable you to add an advanced selection of slick photo and text animations to your web pages without the need for coding knowledge. More widgets will be automatically downloaded and added to your gallery over time.
Presentation websites. Create web-based 'slide-show' style presentations that your website visitors can step through using the keyboard arrow keys. Apply animated transition effects as each step and page is displayed. You can also easily remotely host a web meeting (a Webinar) to showcase your presentation, step by step and page by page, to a group of invited participants.
New animated transition effects for layers and page links. Xara Web Designer 7 Premium makes it easy to add a wide range of animated effects to the layers and page links in your website. You can add animated transitions to any page link or pop-up layer in your web pages.
Intelligent repeating headers / footers / watermarks. Xara Web Designer 7 Premium now automatically updates all occurrences of a repeating object when you edit it, so you don't have to manually update when you make a change. When one instance of a repeating object is edited, the updates appear instantly on all other instances of that object on other pages of the document. What's more, Xara Web Designer 7 Premium is smart about positioning, so objects in the top half of the page are positioned on other pages relative to the top of the page, and objects near the bottom are positioned relative to the bottom of the page, irrespective of page sizes.
Add individuality to your web page browser tabs using 'favicons'. Xara Web Designer 7 Premium now supports the addition of favicons, allowing you to customize the tabs of your web pages by displaying a custom graphic, such as a logo, on the document browser tab.
Sitemap support. You can now automatically generate a sitemap for submission to search engines to assist them with the crawling of your website when you publish it.
Built-in preview window now includes navigation buttons. The navigation buttons in the top bar of the preview window allow you to move back or forward, just like in a web browser, and the Home button returns you to the page you started the preview on.
Quickly preview your pages in the most popular web browsers. If you have Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari or Chrome installed, you can preview exactly how your page will appear in each of these popular web browsers with one click.
Preview your web page in full screen by clicking the new View Full Screen button in Xara Web Designer 7 Premium's built-in Preview window. When you next use preview, Xara Web Designer 7 Premium remembers the last used mode (normal, maximized or full screen). and displays subsequent previews in the same way.
Explore your FTP web space from within Xara Web Designer 7 Premium. You can browse through and delete files and folders on your FTP server using Xara Web Designer 7 Premium's built-in Web Space Explorer.
A new range of templates gives you a greater design choice when creating your websites in Xara Web Designer 7 Premium.
General Tools and Usability Enhancements
Web Designer includes many customizable graphic templates, of course, and a good set of basic drawing tools, but Xara Web Designer 7 Premium now includes a range of additional graphic creation tools for those who wish to create their own graphics from scratch. These include the Freehand and Quickshape drawing tools, Shadow, Bevel and Mold tools, 3D extrude and feathering. Plus additional photo features such as red-eye removal and masking.
Brand new 'magic snap' for object alignment. Xara Web Designer 7 Premium now provides 'magic' magnetic object snapping. As you drag an object, it 'snaps' to points and lines of interest nearby and indicates what it has snapped to by displaying dynamic snap lines and points. This makes it easy to align objects with each other, or with guidelines or the page center or edges.
Enhanced ease of use. Xara Web Designer 7 Premium galleries now give faster access to the information you need:
A new default Page & Layer Gallery 'pages' mode displays a narrow list of page thumbnails – for easy page selection and access.
Xara Web Designer 7 Premium initially displays an uncluttered single page view. Use the Page & Layer Gallery to quickly move to different pages, or switch to multi-page view by right clicking on the page and selecting the multi-page view option on the menu.
A hierarchical arrangement of the Designs Gallery makes it far easier to find the template you're looking for at a glance.
Dreamweaver helps you to create custom web pages and custom web applications
