Xara announces the release of Xara Web Designer 9, a web authoring tool for Windows, aimed at both graphic designers and anyone wanting a high quality website, without the need to know HTML coding, scripting or the usual technical jargon.

The usual limitations of HTML web authoring simply do not exist in Xara Web Designer. Users have the freedom to use any font, to place anything anywhere on the page with pixel precision, the freedom to automatically repel text around irregular shapes or alpha-channel images, the freedom to draw vector graphics on the page, with transparency, and for all of this to just work.

Xara Web Designer 9 Premium comes many innovative new features:

• HiDPi or Retina compatible websites - automatically
• Direct integration of 620+ Google Web Fonts
• HTML 5 and CSS3 support ( websites are automatically backwards compatible with older browsers)
• Improved Google Analytics integration
• A 32bit and a 64-bit version for 64-bit Windows. No more memory limits.
• Bundled web hosting, with simple no-FTP-jargon publishing. ¹
• A Free top level domain for one year. (e.g. a .com, .co.uk or .de, etc)
• 100+ new business-specific website templates available ²

The world is rapidly moving to HiDPI or Retina screens.  Creating hi-resolution compatible websites the traditional way can be technically complicated and time consuming. With Xara Web Designer it's as simple as a single check-box. It automatically creates two versions of all graphics and photos, and corresponding script code so that the right image resolution is shown on each device.

Charles Moir, founder and Managing Director of Xara said, "The dual nature of Xara Web Designer separates it from the myriad of simple website creators.  We have professional website and graphic designers who use it as the fastest way to create custom designs. It's the perfect rapid prototyping tool, but unlike Photoshop, you get a real working website, not just a mock-up. For everyone else, the template approach means you can take one of the hundreds of website templates and customize the content, fonts and colours to create a unique final design.”

Web Designer is Xara's most popular product and this version 9 is a big step forward. With automatic Retina compatibility, support for leading edge features such as Google fonts, HTML5 and CSS3, super-smooth hardware accelerated transition effects such as pop-ups, and all websites being compatible with mobile and desktop browsers makes Xara Web Designer an ideal choice for novices as well as professional designers. 

Xara Web Designer 9 Premium retails for \$99.99 / £89.99 / €99.99
An entry level (reduced feature) version, called simply Web Designer 9, is available for \$49.99 / £39.99 / €49.99, ideal for customers who are completely new to web design.
Existing Xara Web Designer users can upgrade for as little as \$29.99 / £19.99 / €29.99

Xara Web Designer 9 operates on Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8 and requires a minimum 500MB of RAM and a minimum of 300MB hard-disk space.

Additional information:

• Xara Web Designer
• Web Designer 9 detailed feature description
• Examples of the 100+ business-specific template designs
• An example web page using a few of the new features

¹ Web Designer Premium customers gets 2Gbytes of free hosting space and a free top level domain for one year, provided by MAGIX Online World. All customers can get 500Mbytes free hosting 'forever' with no subscription.

² In addition to 20 new general purpose website themes bundled with this new release, we have made available more than 100 business specific template designs, as ready-to-use websites (just edit the contents to suit) including relevant stock photography. Web Designer 9 Premium customers can select one design for free, additional business designs costs just \$15

³ Web Designer is available under both the Xara and MAGIX retail brands.

 

 

More information and downloads

Please see the press center at  http://www.xara.com/presscenter/webdesigner
This includes press materials, graphics, screenshots, boxshots, product information and a full list of new features

 

Contact

For more details or a serial number to unlock the trial version please contact: Nova Fisher, [email protected] Tel: +44 1442 351035

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About Xara Group Ltd Xara has been at the cutting edge of software design since 1981, specializing in creative design and publishing solutions, with award winning titles from the era of the BBC Micro right up to and including the latest cloud based, online services. Innovations have included technology firsts such as the first real time anti-aliasing & transparency controls, and spell check as you type. Xara Cloud is the latest venture, the culmination of decades in software design for the publishing industry. You can find more information about the latest updates on the website of our official worldwide reseller magix.com.

About MAGIX MAGIX has been a leading international provider of high-quality software, online services and digital content for multimedia communications since 1993. The MAGIX product range is targeted towards both laymen and professionals alike, going beyond the PC platform to include seamlessly integrated online and mobile applications. MAGIX operates internationally from branches in the USA, Canada, the UK, France, Italy and the Netherlands.