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Xara Web Designer 10 release notes
Mobile websites are better with menus, not NavBars
Because of the narrow width of mobile screens, it’s common to replace a NavBar or row of buttons with
just a single navigation button that shows a pop-up menu. Web Designer supports dynamic pop-up (or
pop-down) menus, and if your website has an automatic ‘site navigation bar’ (where the buttons
automatically reflect the pages), then there’s a hidden short-cut way to convert a NavBar design into a
single button menu.
Double click the NavBar to bring up the NavBar editor. Delete each button in the main list, so there’s
only one remaining button (typically called Home). Make sure this has no link on it. Now un-check and
then re-check the ‘Site Navigation Bar’ option. This will re-build a Menu on the single button, with an
entry to each page of your website. You can of course edit the name of the button and the menu
entries as required. (The key here is that when you make a button that has no link into a ‘site
navigation bar’, it will put a menu on it. If the button had a link, then it would replicate that button into
a NavBar.)
This method only applies to websites that have the automatic ‘Site Navigation Bar’ option chosen. If
you have a customized NavBar, then you will need to build a menu manually, using this dialog.
To customize the appearance of the menu, click the ‘Pop-up menu style’ button, bottom right.
Remember to preview your working menu it’s necessary to preview the web page.
Variants have the same pages
When you add or delete a page in one variant, it automatically creates or removes the page in the other
variant. So your website always has the same page arrangement in all variants.
Multi-column behaviour
Most websites use columns of text, no text boxes or frames. Each text column or frame is treated as a
separate shared item. So this means if you have text in two separate areas (either two separate or text
boxes) then you can’t copy the text from one into the other, as that edit will just be shared back to the
other variants.
So in order to re-arrange your two columns into one column, just move them to be one above the
other. If you have ‘Push’ attribute set (Right click Position on page...) then editing one will push the text
down as you need.