
Xara Web Designer Premium deserves its reputation as a powerful, easy-to-use web-design program. There’s also 2GB of free web space for a year.

Among them are support for a sitemap, Google Fonts, Flash animations, HTML5 video, Google Analytics and even an FTP program. The Premium version reviewed here includes a number of significant and useful elements that are missing from the standard version. A website can’t be both responsive and a supersite simultaneously. There are 29 supersite templates and the results are surprisingly effective, but they’re best suited for relatively short, graphics-led websites, such as portfolios and brochures. You can also now create what Xara calls a ‘Supersite’ (see bottom screenshot), either as a single long page that scrolls smoothly (vertically or horizontally) or a more traditional page-based site, albeit with fancy animations and transitions between pages. You can support the site directly via Paypal donations ☕. This is confusing and makes the process of creating your site more long-winded than it should be.ħReview earns Amazon affiliate commissions from qualifying purchases. Other elements, such as headers, are not shared and must be changed in each template version individually. Certain elements are shared, so changing a piece of text or photo in one layout changes it in the other layouts.

On top of that, visitors to your site will expect certain navigational capabilities, such as swiping between photos, rather than tapping forward and back buttons. This is no mean feat – it repositions menus, and resizes images and videos. This latest version adds a couple of new features.įirst, it can now create websites that automatically adjust their content and navigation to suit the device they’re being displayed on, whether it’s a smartphone, tablet or a 27in monitor.
