I started with the Hipster Theme, a single page website template. Here’s a quick website I put together for our church. I find the one page websites to be extremely useful both because they are quick to create and because they load fast for your viewers. Many templates are provided to get you started and then you can add or deduct elements to suit your individual needs. In this example, the second smallest pin was the original creation and the other three were all stretched or contracted versions of the first – with no loss in sharpness.īoth Designer Pro and Web Designer come with an abundant supply of templates for creating websites. Remember that with all the programs, they are primarily vector based, so your artwork can be scaled up or down without losing quality. Most surprising to me, your clients can then also do some limited editing to your creations if you allow – even without them having Xara installed. The online interface is quite intuitive once you understand the system. By the way, all the business theme options that used to be extra with Web Designer have now been included at no cost.īoth of them also now include Online Designer, enabling you to create and edit websites, photos and documents even when away from the computer where you have Xara installed. A good part of this review will be based around the improvements to web design, both in Designer Pro and Web Designer. To recap ever so slightly, Xara offers four versions: Designer Pro X365 (the do everything version) Web Designer 365 Premium Page & Layout Designer 11 and Photo & Graphic Designer 365. Well, those updates have been rolling out – almost too many to count, but we’ll touch on some of the ones I’ve used as we do this review. No more waiting for the next year’s version to come out.

As you’ll recall from that review, the new Update Service model was to allow for random updates, available to everyone, as soon as they were ready.

It’s been not quite a year since my last review of Xara Designer Pro 365 and but so much is being added, it seemed like time to do an update.

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