NEW! Customizable design templates
Choose from a variety of universally customizable example websites and objects created by professional web designers with great attention to detail.
Create websites with more than 30 complete website designs including subpages and over 500 templates & customizable elements.
Every design includes thematic templates with their own matching web graphics, navigation bars, buttons, banners, photo galleries, text blocks, speech balloons, and numerous other icons and shapes.
You can decide if the objects should be trimmed to the edge of the page or be visible on the background.
NEW! Intelligent design templates
Design websites yourself from scratch or use one of the pre-made, license free example websites.
All templates automatically adjust the page size, resulting in an even faster workflow!
Simply add your text to the design templates and all of the existing elements will be adjusted automatically. This prevents uneven formatting and ensures that your website always looks great.
Every website is unique
Use the slider to adjust the color scheme of your website harmoniously with the "connected colors" feature. Create endless color variations from any website template!
It only takes a few clicks to adjust size, color, shapes and position to match your creative vision.
Tip: Webpages and elements added later can be automatically colored to match the rest of your website.
Unlimited creative freedom
WYSIWYG "What you see is what you get!"
Your website will look exactly the same on the Internet as it does in the program. To be on the safe side you can always check your sites offline using the clever preview feature in any available web browser.
Note: The video displays the user interface from the previous version.
Integrated image editing
The integrated, non-destructive image editing provides all of the features you need to work with the graphics for your website.
By using rotation, cropping, auto-correction, brightness, contrast, saturation, color temperature, sharpness and panorama montages you can perfect your images without having to use an external program as is often the case with other website creation programs.
The newly integrated MX technology also allows you to easily import projects from other MAGIX programs (e.g. Xara Photo & Graphic Designer).
Automatic image size reduction
Automatic output of photos in Internet-optimized file size is useful when publishing websites.
Tip: To save storage space and avoid long waiting times, the resolution of imported photos can be reduced (originals remain unchanged). This way you can work on your project smoothly and preview and publish it faster.
Photos, slideshows, videos & music
MP3 Audio Player
Create websites & listen to music: Present songs or podcasts, e.g. with an audio player as a widget provided in the templates gallery. This also allows you to embed music from your MAGIX Online Album.
Ideal for a band website!
You can also integrate background music or widgets available for free from your favorite web radio stations.
Additional customization options
Select from thousands of dynamic web contents available for free online (“Widgets”, HTML, PHP, Java, Flash...) and embed them in your website easily.
The integrated design gallery also has a large selection of widgets to choose from:
contact forms, visitor counters, Google Maps®, E-Commerce options, YouTube® video players, photo galleries from Flickr®, Picasa® Web Album, MP3 players, chat features like Skype®, current news, YouTube® video player bar, Facebook® integration e.g. Like buttons etc.
Useful: The program detects HTML code from widgets and automatically adds these to your project with a matching preview image.
IMPROVED! Text layout
Special fonts
Most website creation programs only allow the use of default Internet fonts, but with Xara Web Designer you can use any kind of character set (all installed TrueType fonts).
Design elements that you would otherwise not be able to implement in HTML. Create impressive rotated texts.
Useful: These texts can be automatically converted to a graphic to ensure that they are displayed properly on any computer and in any browser.
Note: The video shows the user interface from the previous version.
NEW! Use your favorite fonts
Do you have a favorite font? Is it web safe? Now you can use any font you like for your website!
Other programs can only offer a limited selection of fonts but with Xara Web Designer you can use any font for your website. All fonts are embedded directly in the website and displayed true to the original in all modern web browsers.
Publish anywhere
It couldn’t be easier: Publish your website directly from the program with any FTP-capable hosting partner.
Includes automatic output as CSS-optimized and W3C-compiled XHTML source code for display in any current Internet browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera).
Intelligent upload: Only the files that have been changed since the last publishing will be uploaded. This saves time and increases your productivity.
Tip: Independence from webspace providers. Are you currently dealing with different web providers for various websites? Change at any time to a cheaper hosting partner. Or prepare your website even before you incur any publishing costs.
IMPROVED! Advanced search engine optimization
Many Internet users rely on search engines to find websites. This makes it very important to have your website listed with Google® and other popular search engines.
The integrated SEO makes this possible by organizing the necessary metadata and content for every page of your website so it can easily be recognized and prioritized by search engines.
HTML code extensions allow the integration of complex control options.
- Determine thematic search terms (SEO keywords) for your website and each subpage.
- Specify descriptions that will appear in the match list of search engines.
- Embed web analysis tools (e.g. Google Analytics) and gain valuable insights into page views.
Website management
Apply other content
Are you no longer satisfied with your old website, but you don’t want to have to rebuild everything from the ground up when designing your website with Xara Web Designer?
Save time and import existing content directly from your Internet browser or other website and text editing programs:
- Copy & paste text, including formatting (RTF format)
- Copy & paste and drag & drop any photos or graphics
- FTP import for quickly importing photos and graphics located on other websites directly via web addresses
Of course, you can also use Xara Web Designer MX (Version 8) to load and continue editing projects created with any previous version.
Suitable for other applications
Practical examples
For many years now Xara Web Designer has proven itself to be the leading software for thousands of Internet enthusiasts worldwide and is considered the product of choice in many private, commercial and professional user circles.
Here you can see a small selection of example websites in practical use. Check out all of the exciting possibilities!
