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We’ve all been asking for Responsive Websites. Heck, we’ve been demanding Responsive Websites! Well, the big news is Web Designer 10 Premium can create responsive websites and still remain completely drag and drop, WYSIWYG easy! And Web Designer Premium 10  gives you the ability to design the right size site for the right size browser or device. Most responsive websites rearrange the text and graphics to fit the screen size with often unattractive results. What looks good full screen on your computer might not look so great on a tablet or smart phone when the text and graphics are reshuffled. Xara Web Designer 10 Premium takes a different approach to responsive websites. Instead of a reshuffle the content approach, Web Designer 10 Premium lets you design Variants of your website for specific display sizes, from full desktop browsers to mobile devices. These variants, which are actually different layouts of the same site are linked, so if you change the text or photos on the main site, the text and/or photos on the variant or variants changes as well. The browser automatically loads the right variant.  If you reduce the width of your browser, you’ll see the mobile site. Go ahead, try it. For my First Look, I will focus on Web Designer 10 Premium, but at the end of the review you’ll find a link to a comparison chart of features so you can decide which version (Web Designer 10 Premium or Web Designer 10 Classic) is just right for you. This website uses another new feature called Supersites, which creates one continuous site that you can scroll up or down (or side to side). In the mobile version, you can swipe up or down (or side to side). This site scrolls vertically. Scroll or swipe down to the next page.

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We’ve all been asking for Responsive Websites. Heck, we’ve been demanding Responsive Websites! Well, the big news is Web Designer 10 Premium can create responsive websites and still remain completely drag and drop, WYSIWYG easy! And the way Xara does it gives you a lot of leeway. Most responsive websites rearrange the text and graphics to fit the screen size with often unattractive results. What looks good full screen on your computer might not look so great on a tablet or smart phone when the text and graphics are reshuffled. Xara Web Designer 10 Premium takes a different approach to responsive websites. Instead of a reshuffle the content approach, Web Designer 10 Premium lets you design Variants of your website for specific display sizes, from full desktop browsers to mobile devices. These variants, which are actually different layouts of the same site are linked, so if you change the text or photos on the main site, the text and/or photos on the variant or variants changes as well. The browser automatically loads the right variant. I’ll explain all this in a bit. But it’s such exciting news I just couldn’t hold back! For my First Look, I will focus on Web Designer 10 Premium, but at the end of the review you’ll find a link to a comparison chart of features so you can decide which version (Web Designer 10 Premium or Classic) is just right for you. This website uses another new feature called Supersites which creates one continuous site that you can scroll up or down through. In the mobile version, you can swipe up or down. Let’s look at Responsive Websites and Supersites. Scroll or swipe down to the next page.

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TIP: Mobile devices, have less bandwidth and smaller screens. Simplify your content. Don’t just scale down your large website. Design your site specifically for a smaller screen.
Responsive Websites Web Designer 10 Premium can create Scale to Fit Screen Supersites and presentations. These automatically scale to fit any screen size. However, Scale to Fit Screen websites work best in a square format. But most websites are deeper than they are wide. For these sites the best solution is Responsive Websites, variations of the same website  that are designed for a specific screen size. Here’s how Web Designer 10 Premium creates responsive websites. It’s called Website Variants. First you create your main website, or use an existing site. Then you use the new Website Variants menu to create a smaller version or Variant. Web Designer 10 creates a version with smaller pages based on the Variant Page Width (in this case 480px, perfect for mobile devices), and places all the content from your main website on the variant layout. The full size content needs to be scaled down to fit on the smaller page size, so you resize the content to work best in the smaller size. Mobile sites should not simply be smaller versions of the large website, they should be simplified and pared down to the essential elements. What looks good on a large page can look horribly cluttered on a smart phone. If you edit or modify the text or photos on one site, these items automatically update on the Variant site. This is called Live Share. The page examples on the left show two different websites Variants, normal browser and mobile. You can quickly create a desktop browser site and a mobile site. You can create a tablet or specific device Variant. Even separate Variants for portrait and landscape. It’s all up to you. Automatic Redirect Many of us have struggled with adding redirect scripts to our websites to send the visitor to a mobile site. This required us to create two separate websites published to two different folders. Not an huge problem, but extra work. Now, when you publish your website and Variant (or Variants), Web Designer 10 Premium publishes everything to the same folder. A CSS Media Query automatically ensures the right Variant displays in the right screen size. If you are not a designer, or you do not have the time to create your own site from scratch, there are handsome, professionally designed complete website templates that come with a Variant site. Look for the (R) designation after the Website Template name. The example above shows one of these yummy Websites Templates.
TIP For mobile devices, create a single button Nav Bar and add your pages to a drop down Sub-menu
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Responsive Websites Web Designer 10 Premium can create Scale to Fit Screen Supersites and presentations. These site and presentations automatically scale to fit any screen size. Scale to Fit Screen websites work best in a square format. But most websites are deeper than they are wide. For these sites the best solution is Responsive Websites, sites that are designed for a specific screen size. Here’s how Web Designer 10 Premium creates responsive websites. It’s a process called Website Variants. First you create your main website, or use an existing site. Then you use the new Website Variants menu to create a smaller version or Variant. Web Designer 10 creates a version with smaller pages based on the Variant Page Width  (in this case 480px, perfect for mobile devices), and places all the content from your main website on the variant layout. The full size content needs to be scaled down to fit on the smaller page size, so you resize the content to work best in the smaller size. Mobile sites should not simply be smaller versions of the large website, they should be simplified and pared down to the essential elements. What looks good on a large page can look horribly cluttered on a smart phone. If you edit or modify the text or photos on one site, these items automa- tically update on the Variant site. This is called Live Share. The page examples on the left show two different websites Variants, normal browser and mobile. You can quickly create a desktop browser site and a mobile site. You can create a tablet or specific device Variant. Even separate Variants for portrait and landscape. It’s all up to you. Automatic Redirect Many of us have struggled with adding redirect scripts to our websites to send the visitor to a mobile site. This required us to create two separate websites published to two different folders. Not an huge problem, but extra work. Now, when you publish your website and Variant (or Variants), Web Designer 10 Premium publishes everything to the same folder. A CSS Media Query automatically ensures the right Variant displays in the right screen size. If you are not a designer, or you do not have the time to create your own site from scratch, there are handsome, professionally designed complete website templates that come with a Variant site. Look for the (R) designation after the Website Template name. The example above shows one of these yummy Websites Templates.
TIP For mobile devices, create a single button Nav Bar and add your pages to a drop down Sub-menu
A full browser site (left) and a mobile variant (Right)
New Page Transitions There are 7 new page transitions that work great with both Websites and Presentations. You can use the same transition for the entire site, or use a different transition for each page. I counsel restraint, but I tend towards the conservative. Just because there are a whole bunch of page transitions does not mean you have to use each and every one. But they are cool and it is a temptation. Supersites A brilliant new option in Web Designer 10 Premium is called Supersites. Supersites are essentially one page websites that scroll horizontally or vertically. There are three kinds of Supersites as you can see below, Vertical, which scrolls up and down, Horizontal, which scrolls left and right, and Page Transitions that don’t scroll but use any of the page transition effects. The Scale to Fit Page option only works with Supersites and Supersite Presentations. Supersites work great with tablets and mobile devices and can be navigated by swiping the page. And as I noted these sites can also be navigated with a scroll mouse. The  page transitions are hardware accelerated, which is supported in most current browsers. Presentations Update Website Presentations (I like to call these XaraPoint Presentations), are a great way to share information with colleagues and prospective customers. You can create self-guided presentations, or ones that you manage remotely for invited guests only. This is not new but just worth reminding you about. Two new empty page templates let you design in HD ratio 16:10 and in the more traditional 4:3. When you display a Supersite Presentation, a pop up appears to remind your visitor that she or he can use the Page Up and Page Down keys as well as the arrow keys to navigate through the pages of your presentation.
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New Page Transitions There are 7 new page transitions that work great with both Websites and Presentations. You can use the same transition for the entire site, or use a different transition for each page. I counsel restraint, but I tend towards the conservative. Just because there are a whole bunch of page transitions does not mean you have to use each and every one. But they are cool and it is a temptation. Supersites A brilliant new option in Web Designer 10 Premium is called Supersites. Supersites are essentially one page websites that scroll horizontally or vertically. There are three kinds of Supersites as you can see below, Vertical, which scrolls up and down, Horizontal, which scrolls left and right, and Page Transitions  that don’t scroll but use any of the page transition effects. The Scale to Fit Page option only works with Supersites and Supersite Presentations. Supersites work great with tablets and mobile devices and can be navigated by swiping the page. And as I noted these sites can also be navigated with a scroll mouse. The  page transitions are hardware accelerated, which is supported in most current browsers. Presentations Update Website Presentations (I like to call these XaraPoint Presentations), are a great way to share information with colleagues and prospective customers. You can create self-guided presentations, or ones that you manage remotely for invited guests only. This is not new but just worth reminding you about. Two new empty page templates let you design in HD ratio 16:10 and in the more traditional 4:3. When you display a Supersite Presentation, a pop up appears to remind your visitor that she or he can use the Page Up and Page Down keys as well as the arrow keys to navigate through the pages of your presentation.
Free Web Hosting Package! Owners of Web Designer 10 Premium get one FREE year of M website hosting with Magix Online World. This includes 2 GB of server space, a free domain name, and a free web-based email package that includes up to 5 mailboxes. Owners of both versions also get Password Protection for their web pages (via Magix). (Web Designer 9 Premium owners get coupons that let you extend your free Magix Online World M web hosting package for another year when you upgrade). New on the Menu There is a new menu entry that really improves work flow. It’s the Insert menu. You can insert an Image, Shape, Text area, or a New Page. And you’ll notice another new entry at the top of the list, Content Catalog. We’ll get back to the Insert menu in a moment. But let’s look at the new Content Catalog (shown below and on the next page)
The new Content Catalog shown on the left provides fast on-demand online access to Website Themes, SmartShapes, Presentation Themes, Page Elements and Widgets, Clipart and  more.
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Free Web Hosting Package! Owners of Web Designer 10 Premium get one FREE year of M website hosting with Magix Online World. This includes 2 GB of server space, a free domain name, and a free web-based email package that includes up to 5 mailboxes. Owners of both versions also get Password Protection for their web pages (via Magix). (Web Designer 9 Premium owners get coupons that let you extend your free Magix Online World M web hosting package for another year when you upgrade). New on the Menu  There is a new menu entry that really improves work flow. It’s the Insert menu. You can insert an Image, Shape, Text area, or a New Page. And you’ll notice another new entry at the top of the list, Content Catalog. We’ll get back to the Insert menu in a moment. But let’s look at the new Content Catalog (shown below and on the next page)
The new Content Catalog shown on above provides fast on-demand online access to Website Themes, SmartShapes, Presentation themes, Page Elements and Widgets, Clipart and a lot more.
The Content Catalog is an extension of the Designs Gallery and is updated frequently. The Content Catalog is Cloud based and offers content on demand. To access the catalog you must have an Internet connection. (You can also access the content from the Designs Gallery if you work off-line). The catalog is resizable and is easier for viewing and has big thumbnails for all the contents. When you have a website or presentation theme open, moving the cursor over the listings on the left side produces a small pop-up thumbnail to help quickly preview the different styles and colors. If you are using the trial version, the templates displayed in blue on the the list are available for you to try now. The items shown in red are available for free, but only after you purchase Web Designer 10 Premium. There is also a large set of Business Specific Website Themes. These are available for an additional price. (My photo of the balloons is displayed in the Web Pack 2 > Hover Widgets folder, one of several dozen photo widgets). Back to the New Insert Menu You can insert Images from a file, website, camera, or from the clipboard (for screen captures, or images copied from another source). I discovered that Insert > Image > From Web Address  brings in the content of the whole page, text as well as all the photos and graphics and plops them down in place on your page! You can insert Shapes such as rectangles, ellipses, SmartShapes, arrows, text panels, speech bubbles. You can insert a Text Box (text area), and finally, you can insert a New Page including a blank page, a duplicate page, or a template page from the Content Catalog. The Insert menu will soon become your one-stop shop for adding content to your website. Speaking of SmartShapes SmartShapes are common vector shapes that have extra controls that let you modify them in ways that would take a lot longer if you had to start from scratch. The arrow shown below is a good example.  On the next page we’ll see some more examples of SmartShapes. SmartShapes can be modified at any time. Tomorrow or next year. Any time. That’s what I call smart.
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This is a Speech Bubble. You can alter its size and its text.
This is a Speech Bubble. You can alter its size and its text.
A SmartShape Arrow. Drag the control points to modify the shape.
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The Content Catalog is an extension of the Designs Gallery and is updated frequently. The Content Catalog is Cloud based and offers content on demand. To access the catalog you must have an Internet connection. (You can also access the content from the Designs Gallery if you work off-line). The catalog is resizable and is easier for viewing and has big thumbnails for all the contents. When you have a website or presentation theme open, moving the cursor over the listings on the left side produces a small pop-up thumbnail to help quickly preview the different styles and colors. If you are using the trial version, the templates displayed in blue on the the list are available for you to try now. The items shown in red are available for free, but only after you purchase Web Designer 10 Premium. There is also a large set of Business Specific Website Themes. These are available for an additional price. (My photo of the balloons is displayed in the Web Pack 2 > Hover Widgets folder, one of several dozen photo widgets). Back to the New Insert Menu You can insert Images  from a file, website, camera, or from the clipboard (for screen captures, or images copied from another source). I discovered that Insert > Image > From Web Address brings in the content of the whole page, text as well as all the photos and graphics and plops them down in place on your page! You can insert Shapes  such as rectangles, ellipses, SmartShapes, arrows, text panels, speech bubbles. You can insert a Text Box  (text area), and finally, you can insert a New Page  including a blank page, a duplicate page, or a template page from the Content Catalog. The Insert menu will soon become your one-stop shop for adding content to your website. Speaking of SmartShapes SmartShapes are common vector shapes that have extra controls that let you modify them in ways that would take a lot longer if you had to start from scratch. The arrow shown below is a good example.  On the next page we’ll see some more examples of SmartShapes. SmartShapes can be modified at any time. Tomorrow or next year. Any time. That’s what I call smart.
This is a Speech Bubble. You can alter its size and its text.
This is a Speech Bubble. You can alter its size and its text.
A SmartShape Arrow. Drag the control points to modify the shape.
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More SmartShapes The pie chart shown here was created using a Pie Segment SmartShape. Cloning this shape allows you to quickly create a pie chart. The small cyan circles are the control points and let you extend the diameter of the slice, scale the slice, and rotate the slice from the center of the pie circle. Each slice can be edited at any time. Text  Panels Text Panels automatically adjust to to the amount of text in the box. There are a whole bunch of these. You can resize the text, the width of the line of text, and the size of the Text Panel. And everything magically readjusts. Below left is an elliptical SmartShape. OK you ask, how smart can a simple ellipse be? Well, I dragged the bottom control point down and then the middle right point upward. If you’re bored and don’t have a tight deadline, as I do with this review, you can spend hours playing with all these smart shapes and you’ll marvel and how somethings so simple can also be so smart! New Website Templates Web Designer 10 Premium owners now have 10 brand new General Website Theme templates to choose from. These are professionally designed full websites (not just single pages), that you can modify to fit your needs. By my count, this makes a total of 70 professionally designed templates. In addition, Premium owners get 132 Business Specific Website Themes from Accountancy to Well Being and everything in between. And in many cases, not one business specific theme but several different designs to choose from. Six for Health and Beauty, seven designs for Pub and Bar. Web Designer 10 Classic gets 5 new website themes for a total of 40. As the saying goes, there is something for everybody! You can preview the Business Specific Themes. They are attractive and attractively priced! Improved PDF and Word DOC Import Filters The Microsoft Word DOCX import filter has been enhanced and there is a new and improved PDF import filter for getting content into your website.
MY TO DO LIST: Cover SmartShapes Show Content CatalogExplain How Pie Slice Works! This text panel is a SmartShape. It expands or contracts to fit the text you add. You can resize the text panel and the text reflows within the panel. This text panel is a SmartShape. It expands or contracts to fit the text you add. You can resize the text panel and the text reflows within the panel.
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More SmartShapes The pie chart shown here was created using a Pie Segment SmartShape. Cloning this shape allows you to quickly create a pie chart. The small cyan circles are the control points and let you extend the diameter of the slice, scale the slice, and rotate the slice from the center of the pie circle. Each slice can be edited at any time. Text  Panels Text Panels automatically adjust to to the amount of text in the box. There are a whole bunch of these. You can resize the text, the width of the line of text, and the size of the Text Panel. And everything magically readjusts. Above is an elliptical SmartShape. OK you ask, how smart can a simple ellipse be? Well, I dragged the bottom control point down and then the middle right point upward. If you’re bored and don’t have a tight deadline, as I do with this review, you can spend hours playing with all these smart shapes and you’ll marvel and how somethings so simple can also be so smart! New Website Templates Web Designer 10 Premium owners now have 10 brand new General Website Theme  templates to choose from. These are professionally designed full websites (not just single pages), that you can modify to fit your needs. By my count, this makes a total of 70 professionally designed templates. In addition, Premium owners get 132 Business Specific Website Themes from Accountancy to Well Being and everything in between. And in many cases, not one business specific theme but several different designs to choose from. Six for Health and Beauty, seven designs for Pub and Bar. Web Designer 10 Classic gets 5 new website themes for a total of 40. As the saying goes, there is something for everybody! You can preview the Business Specific Themes. They are attractive and attractively priced! Improved PDF and Word DOC Import Filters  The Microsoft Word DOCX import filter has been enhanced and there is a new and improved PDF import filter for getting content into your website.
MY TO DO LIST: Cover SmartShapes Show Content CatalogExplain How Pie Slice Works! This text panel is a SmartShape. It expands or contracts to fit the text you add. You can resize the text panel and the text reflows within the panel. This text panel is a SmartShape. It expands or contracts to fit the text you add. You can resize the text panel and the text reflows within the panel.
New Widgets There are several new photo widgets available for Web Designer 10 Premium owners. These join the existing array of photo gallery, slide show, and zoom photo widgets! There are new social media widgets including: Instagram badge, Instagram SnapWidgets (embed your Instagram photos into a website as a photo gallery), Pinterest and LinkedIn badges. These join the Google, Facebook, Twitter, Add This and more widgets in the Social Networking Widgets folder. And did I mention there’s a ton and a half of free clip art, photos and graphics in the Content Catalog (Samples below).
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Z Accordion 3 One of five new photo slide show widgets TIP: You can add a text title over your slide show
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New Widgets There are several new photo widgets available for Web Designer 10 Premium owners. These join the existing array of photo gallery, slide show, and zoom photo widgets! There are new social media widgets including: Instagram badge, Instagram SnapWidgets (embed your Instagram photos into a website as a photo gallery), Pinterest and LinkedIn badges. These join the Google, Facebook, Twitter, Add This and more widgets in the Social Networking Widgets folder. And did I mention there’s a ton and a half of free clip art, photos and graphics in the Content Catalog (Samples below).
Placitas New Mexico
Let’s Sum Up! There is a lot to like in Web Designer 10. If you are not already using Xara Web Designer or Xara Designer Pro, then what are you waiting for? Download your free 30-day trial version this very instant! If you are currently using an earlier version of Web Designer, the Responsive Web Sites capability alone should help you make up your mind to upgrade. Throw in true WYSIWYG, drag and drop website design, compatibility with all browsers, support for CSS3 and HTML 5, and the best features you need to create the greatest websites, and Web Designer 10 is the product for you. And even if you can’t draw a straight line with a ruler, or you don’t have time to create a site from scratch, with all the professionally designed websites (and don’t forget presentation templates), buttons, headers, etc., you can create a professional site that looks like you hired a high priced design firm. And let’s not forget the fabulous free MAGIX Online World hosting package for Web Designer 10 Premium and Classic. Plus with Premium you get the M package which includes 12 months of free website hosting, 2 GB of storage space, a free domain name (such as MyFabulousWebsite.com), and an e-mail account like BigMacher@MyFabulousWebsite.com, plus five additional e-mailboxes. Owners of both versions also get free password protection for their sites. The big question you need to ask yourself is can you get by with Xara Web Designer 10 Classic, or do you want to go all out and get the top of the line, the crème de la crème, Xara Web Designer 10 Premium? I’m afraid I can’t answer that question for you but I can give you a handy link where you can compare features and decide which version is the right one for you. Web Designer 10 Comparison Chart. If you need help or just want to be part of the community, join us at the TalkGraphics Forums, where the members are friendly, helpful, and knowledgeable. When you create your award winning website or presentation, but sure to post it in the TalkGraphics Xara Web Gallery. Or just check in for a little inspiration and see what other users have created.
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Let’s Sum Up! There is a lot to like in Web Designer 10. If you are not already using Xara Web Designer or Xara Designer Pro, then what are you waiting for? Download your free 30-day trial version this very instant! If you are currently using an earlier version of Web Designer, the Responsive Web Sites capability alone should help you make up your mind to upgrade. Throw in true WYSIWYG, drag and drop website design, compatibility with all browsers, support for CSS3 and HTML 5, and the best features you need to create the greatest websites, and Web Designer 10 is the product for you. And even if you can’t draw a straight line with a ruler, or you don’t have time to create a site from scratch, with all the professionally designed websites (and don’t forget presentation templates), buttons, headers, etc., you can create a professional site that looks like you hired a high priced design firm. And let’s not forget the fabulous free MAGIX Online World hosting package for Web Designer 10 Premium and Classic. Plus with Premium you get the M package which includes 12 months of free website hosting, 2 GB of storage space, a free domain name (such as MyFabulousWebsite.com), and an e-mail account like BigMacher@MyFabulousWebsite.com, plus five additional e-mailboxes. Owners of both versions also get free password protection for their sites. The big question you need to ask yourself is can you get by with Xara Web Designer 10 Classic, or do you want to go all out and get the top of the line, the crème de la crème, Xara Web Designer 10 Premium? I’m afraid I can’t answer that question for you but I can give you a handy link where you can compare features and decide which version is the right one for you. Web Designer 10 Comparison Chart. If you need help or just want to be part of the community, join us at the TalkGraphics Forums, where the members are friendly, helpful, and knowledgeable. When you create your award winning website or presentation, but sure to post it in the TalkGraphics Xara Web Gallery. Or just check in for a little inspiration and see what other users have created.