- #XARA WEB DESIGNER VS DREAMWEAVER PRO#
- #XARA WEB DESIGNER VS DREAMWEAVER SOFTWARE#
- #XARA WEB DESIGNER VS DREAMWEAVER CODE#
How difficult is it to learn? How much flexibility is there with the default templates you start with? What kind of results could I expect? Are there any alternatives that you would recommend over Xara?
#XARA WEB DESIGNER VS DREAMWEAVER SOFTWARE#
If anyone has used this software and has any experience i'd be grateful to hear. And although there is a cost involved, its a one-off cost for the software rather than an annual renewal fee. I can create a better looking website than the templates I have available on clikpic but dont need to understand html to the same extent as using Kompozer. So i'm thinking that Xara or similar may be a good compromise between the two.
#XARA WEB DESIGNER VS DREAMWEAVER CODE#
On the other there is KomPozer, which is free (notwithstanding hosting costs), much more flexible, but would take me a long time to get good enough to code a good looking site. So on the one hand there is clikpic which has an annual fee, limited flexibility and is fiddly. I have some (limited) experience of Dreamweaver, although I no longer have the software, so I have been trying to re-design my site from scratch using KomPozer (a freeware WYSIWYG editor) but to be honest I dont really have the time for learning html programming to the standard I would need to be able to produce something similar to what Clikpic offers.
I pay about £40 a year to have my photos hosted on their server and they provide some semi-tailored site that has some degree of flexibility, but frankly its cumbersome and although you can tweak their templates to some extent, the results always look a little 'off the shelf'
#XARA WEB DESIGNER VS DREAMWEAVER PRO#
I'm wondering if anyone has any advice or recommendations on software for designing websites? I'm particularly interested in Xara Designer (or the Pro version, which also seems to have flash slideshows included)Īt the moment my photography website is built on clikpic, a web-based design and hosting solution.
Xara Web Designer Premium is an excellent WYSIWYG website builder, packed with powerful features and functionality yet also easy enough for just about anyone to use.Not sure if this is the right place for this discussion, but couldn't see a better alternative!
Web Designer 365 extends the program with parallax scrolling, 30 additional scroll animations, 40 extra "on reveal" animations, powerful new SmartShape types (charts, photo grids), and the addition of Google's Material Design icons, a collection of more than 1500 professionally-designed vector graphics. You get "sticky" objects (like a navigation bar which stays at the top of the page as users scroll), extra animations, advanced widgets (ecommerce, charts, photo sliders), and a pile of extra drawing and graphics tools. These include tools to create presentations, animations (Flash and GIF) and single page "SuperSites". And once you've finished, the program will put the site online for you, either at your own web host or using the 2GB of free (for one year) web space included with the package.Īs this is the "Premium" edition, there are many extras. You can even build a site from scratch if the bundled templates don't appeal. If you'd like to add some interactivity to your site, you'll appreciate the program's widgets. These can embed YouTube videos on your pages, Google Maps, Facebook Like and Twitter buttons, media players, contact forms, news feeds and more.Īll of this can be further tweaked or rearranged as necessary.
Just drag and drop an item onto your page and customise it to suit your needs. These can immediately be enhanced with your preferred buttons, headings, navigation bars, photos, icons, movies, MP3s, PDFs and more. The program comes with a host of professionally-produced multipage responsive web designs (only a few are editable in the trial, though). Xara Web Designer Premium 365 is a template-based design tool which makes it quick and easy to create quality websites.