Xara Web Designer 7 Premium for perfect websites

Best website software for state of the art websites

Xara Web Designer 7 Premium is a comprehensive yet simple to use software package that is perfect for beginners or experienced users who want to be able to create perfect websites hassle-free.

It’s perfect for anyone looking for even more creative freedom and a comprehensive package with professional functions. More than 30 additional premium advantages, including

• website design,
• advanced image editing,
• 3D design for logos etc.,
• e-commerce options,
• animations & effects,
• total customization,
• search engine optimization,
• web presentations

All these possibilities turn this flexible all-in-one solution into a reference product for the intuitive creation of fully equipped websites.

Professional design templates

Choose from a variety of universally customizable example websites and objects created by professional web designers with great attention to detail.

MORE! Create websites by using more than 40 (including 7 new) complete website designs including subpages and over 700 templates & elements.

Every design includes theme-related and individual templates for web graphics, navigation bars, buttons, banners, photo galleries, text blocks, speech balloons, and numerous other icons and shapes.

NEW! Decide whether the objects should be clipped to the web page edge or be visible on the background.
View design templates

Every website is unique

Use a slider to change your website’s color scheme harmoniously. So you can create endless color variations from any website template!

The only website creation software which allows you to customize details such as size, colors, shapes and positions easily.

Tip: Pages or elements inserted later can be colored automatically if desired.

Navigation bars

The integrated wizard makes it easier to flexibly create and use comprehensive navigation bars:

• Submenus with animatios and effects (e.g. transparencies/DHTML).
• Place navigation bars, including submenus however you want and specify their size.
• Alignment can be chosen freely (horizontal, vertical), etc.

Unlimited creative freedom

Website creation made easy: Design your website and its content according to your wishes. Produce results with the totally intuitive user interface.

You can bring unusual ideas to life: e.g. shadow, transparency, round corners, and more.

WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get)

Everything you see in the program corresponds with what you will see on your website. You can even preview your website “offline”.

Note: The video shows the user interface from the previous version.

Powerful graphics tools

Use professional templates to design shapes, graphics, buttons, banners, navigation bars, text boxes and interactive MouseOver & pop-up effects or create custom designs.

MORE! Benefit from additional vector graphics tools, e.g. for lines, arrows, additional shapes, edges, fills, textures, modeling, kaleidoscope effects and advanced detail settings.

NEW! Individual website icons

Make your website more attractive and increase its recognition, design your website icons and embed them in your website automatically.

“Favicons” are displayed in the address bar, bookmarks, favorites and on the tabs of the Internet browser.

NEW! 3D design

Create websites in 3D: Turn text, shapes, graphics, and photos into impressive 3D objects in real time with the world’s fastest 3D tool. Including realistic light reflections, shadows and detailed settings options.

Perfect for designing great logos, icons, special buttons and eye catchers that are sure to attract attention.

Note: The video shows the user interface from the previous version.

Advanced image editing

Benefit from integrated, non-destructive image editing functions:

Use rotation, cropping, auto-correction, brightness, contrast, saturation, color temperature, sharpness and panorama montage to make your photos perfect without having to use difficult external image editing programs as is often the case with other website creation programs.

NEW! Intelligent scaling

Do you want to create header graphics which run over the entire web page width or vertical banners, but your image material is too small or not high enough?

This software allows you to change image width or height without distorting important image content (“content-aware rescaling”).

Tip: Important shapes are automatically protected or can be selected manually (e.g. persons).

Automatic image size reduction

The automatic output of the included photos in Internet-optimized file size is useful when it comes to publishing websites.

Tip: To save storage space and avoid long waiting times, the resolution of imported photos may be reduced (Originals remain unchanged). This way you can work on your project smoothly and preview and publish it faster.

NEW! Dynamic effects

Turn your website into an interactive experience with impressive effects!

Fade in or fly in your page content dynamically by clicking.

Impress your visitors moving through your website with numerous modern transition effects (e.g. crossfades, black fades).

You can also set the effect type, position and speed.

View example website

Photos, slideshows, videos & music

Photo galleries

Create websites with integrated photo galleries! Show your photos in enlarged pop-ups with effects (e.g. soft shadows, titles, subtitles, darkening of backgrounds) or as an interactive slideshow with “Previous”, “Pause” and “Next” buttons or an integrated photo overview.
View photo gallery

Video players

Embed videos and multimedia slideshows, e.g. from YouTube or your MAGIX Online Album into your website using drag & drop.

Even videos in MP4 or FLV format can be integrated. The video files are uploaded to the web server when publishing.

NEW! HTML5 videos: Use the new web standard today and present MP4 video files automatically as HTML5-compatible video players. Ideal for visitors of your website, whose devices do not have any Flash Player technology such as Apple iPhone and iPad.

Audio players

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 example for band websites.

You can also integrate background music or widgets available for free from your favorite web radio stations.

NEW! Interactive showcases

Highlight content in a special way – similar to rotating poster ads. Automatically present and customize any number of consecutive “posters”.

Including dynamic zoom effects that can be perfectly used as animated website headers or editorial banners (“Multi teaser” or “Tab container”).

You can easily add photos, graphics, texts, effects and interactive buttons to every template using drag & drop.
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Additional customization options

Select from thousands of dynamic web contents available for free online (“Widgets”, HTML, PHP, Java, Flash…) from different subject areas and embed them in your website easily.

The integrated design gallery contains a large selection of widgets:

Contact forms, visitor counters, Google Maps, e-commerce options, YouTube video players, photo galleries from Flickr, Picasa web albums, MP3 players, chat options, e.g. Skype, current news, and more.

NEW! YouTube video player bar, Facebook integration (e.g. “Like” buttons), Twitter news, and more.

Useful: The program detects HTML code from widgets and automatically adds these into your project with a matching preview image.

File download

Integrate PDF files, Word documents, MP3s, etc. to offer them for download.

You can also use the download box widgets to add password protection to media, documents and any other files.

NEW! Embed other websites

Integrate complete websites seamlessly, even if they are on other servers.

Ideal for embedding web blogs, extensive photo albums, micro sites, external online shop systems, your previous website, friends’ websites.

You can navigate the integrated pages without leaving your own website. You can even move around any graphic elements in the foreground.

Tip: MAGIX Online Albums or Flash pages created for example with MAGIX Website Maker can also be integrated easily.

E-commerce

Use the options of Web 2.0 to earn money without any special knowledge. Promote your company’s success or your commercial activities with a professional website and numerous e-commerce options:

• Use Google Adsense to place advertisements that match the textual theme of your website and earn money every time your visitors click on the ads.
• Integration of any online shops (eBay etc.) and sales on which you get commissions (Amazon etc.) to sell or auction your products and services directly. NEW! Online Shop “Google Checkout”, Online Shop “Ecwid Browser”.
• Integration of affiliate programs: Advertise offers from online providers (e.g. Amazon.com) and earn lucrative commissions for each sale.
• Use PayPal options for secure handling of purchasing & payment processes.
• NEW! Seamless embedding of external web shop systems on subpages.
• Design attractive product presentations for your offers on eBay, etc.
• Gain customers with attractively designed email newsletters.

Animations

Create your own Flash animations (.swf) or animated GIF graphics (.gif) and embed them into your website or other web editors. For example, interactive commercial banner ads, website intros, headings or smilies.

Including graphics, photos, texts, interactive buttons, and links.

NEW! Video file output (e.g. for use in videos and slideshows).

Text layout

Flowing text

Simply move images and graphics to the desired position with the mouse and the text flows around the object automatically. Now even round text flows can be created, which would be very time-consuming with other website creation software.

Special font types

Compared to other website creation programs, you cannot only use default Internet fonts, but also any kind of character set (all installed TrueType fonts).

Design elements that you would otherwise not be able to implement in HTML. Impress others with rotated texts.

Useful: Such texts may be converted to a graphic automatically in order to offer a uniform appearance of your website to visitors using computers on which these fonts are not installed.

Note: The video shows the user interface from the previous version.

NEW! Layout functions

NEW! Anchored graphics: Objects can be linked to blocks of text, so that both can be moved together.

NEW! Find and replace words automatically in the entire project without having to search a long time.

The integrated real-time spell checker simplifies working with text.

Publish anywhere

It couldn’t be easier: Publish your website directly from the program with any FTP-capable hosting partner.

Including 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 publish operation will be uploaded. This saves time and increases your productivity.

Tip: Independence from web space providers. Publish your different websites with different providers. Change at any time to a cheaper hosting partner. Or prepare your website even before you incur any publishing costs.

Incl. free hosting space

Publish your website for free with MAGIX Online World:

• 500 MB web space
• Your own web address http: //yourname.magix.net
• Access via FTP directly from Xara Web Designer

Guaranteed simple, quick, and secure!
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NEW! Additional offers from MAGIX Online World

• Get a domain name of your choice (e.g. www.yourname.com)
• Use vast 20,000 MB web space
• Full access to all MAGIX Flash widgets (Download box, video player…)
• Email accounts incl. webmail, virus and SPAM protection, and more.

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NEW! User gallery

Present your website in the Xara Web Designer user gallery automatically if you like.

This gives you the chance to inform other users about your content and to increase the range of your website.

Advanced search engine optimization

Increase the chance of your website being found easily with Google etc.:

• NEW! When publishing your website, sitemaps are generated. Search engines use these sitemaps when your website is crawled and ensure better search results.
• 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.
• Improve the “legibility” of your texts for search engines by creating pure HTML paragraphs (Displayed line breaks can be canceled to create uninterrupted paragraphs of HTML text).
• NEW! Insert your own HTML header code on web pages and subpages.

NEW! Web presentations

Experience the new dimension of presentation: Available anytime from anywhere, without having to exchange large email attachments!

Create professional presentations, just like the ones you know from programs like Power Point, by using various templates or doing everything completely individually.

Dynamic effects round off your presentation impressively (e.g. flying in objects, transitions when pages are changed). You can also embed online videos.

Create public presentation websites. This allows every visitor to click on the desired elements.

Or password protect your web presentation in remote control mode and use the mouse or control keys to control the most important steps.

Ideal for example for distance learning, webinars, business communication, mobile access to business presentations or even offline presentations on the PC.
Watch sample presentation

Universal website management

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• Create an unlimited number of website projects with any number of subpages.
• Offline operation: With this web design software, Internet connection is only required to publish your website and to display dynamic Internet content.
• NEW! Display and if required remove content published on the server
  (FTP explorer).
• FTP profiles: Save as many FTP settings as you wish as named profiles. This is useful if you have multiple websites published under different domains or with different hosting partners.
• Save FTP access details in your project: This keeps you flexible in case you have multiple websites published in different server locations or under different domains.
• Save FTP password in your project: Useful when creating websites for others. You can publish your project directly without having to set up the FTP settings and continue maintaining its content.

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 7 to load and continue editing projects created with any previous version.

Tip: NEW! You can also integrate websites directly into your website, even if they are on other severs.

Supported formats

• Import: Images (JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF, PSD, and more), other (HTML, PDF, HTM, WMF, RTF, and more)
• Importing of video files that can be embedded as video players (MPEG-4, SWF, NEW! H264) automatically
• Export: HTML, HTM, JPEG, PNG, SWF, (animated) GIF, WMF, PSD, and more

Suitable for other applications

Graphics and animations can also be exported for use in other applications.

For example for designing individual elements or complete front ends for web blogs, wikis, HTML editors, framework or CMS systems, email newsletters, micro sites for eBay, etc.

Also ideal for professional prototyping: Quickly create comprehensive click models of websites or other applications before you start adding the finishing touches or in order to give your customers an idea of what the result will look like later on.

Practical examples

As a leading web design software, Xara Web Designer has proved its worth around the world for years with many thousands of users and enjoys increasing popularity in different private, commercial and professional user circles.

We have prepared a small selection of example websites in practical use for you. Take a look for yourself at the exciting possibilities!
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