Xara Designer Pro X11 First Look — By Gary W. Priester

Get Your Heads in the Cloud

With the Internet, people do not need to be in the same office, or even in the same city to work on the same project. It’s possible to collaborate from anywhere in the world, just as long as you have an Internet connection. “The Cloud” is a place on the Internet where files and applications are stored and can be accessed by people in multiple locations who can share and work on the same files. Dropbox and Google Drive are two popular cloud-based services. When you save your document, the document updates for all others who have Cloud-based access to that document. This process is known as syncing. Here’s how it works. You edit your document and save it in your Google Drive or Dropbox folder. The modified document is automatically updated in the Cloud. If there is an existing version of your document the document is updated and saved as a revised document. If a colleague edits and saves a document in a shared Dropbox or Google Drive folder, and you have that document open at the time, Xara Designer Pro X11 alerts you that the document has been modified. You can also revert back to a previously saved version if you wish. It’s all very science fictiony!

Editing with Xara Online Designer

Xara Online Designer gives you, your colleagues, or clients the ability to edit any Xara document using a simple Web browser. Not only that, it can be any Web browser, even on a Mac computer, laptop, or on a mobile device such as a tablet or smart phone. At present you and your clients and colleagues can open a .XAR or .WEB document, make text changes, and add or replace existing photos. When saved in Dropbox or Google Drive the documents are automatically synced to all devices that have Cloud-based access to that document. Xara Online Designer is still in Beta version and revisions are being made and features added and updated. For more information visit content.ixara.com/intro/

The screen capture above shows a Designer Pro X11 website document being edited in Xara Online Designer. Existing document styles can be applied to the text, text can be added or deleted. And revisions can be published. Upon signing out of Xara Online Designer, changes are synced with Dropbox or Google Drive and persons with access to this document will see the changes and additions.

The Best Set of Design Tools in the Business

Xara Designer Pro X11 gives you a truly outstanding set of design tools that let you create documents, or illustrations, action-packed websites and powerful presentations, tools for publishing and editing ads, brochures, even books, and tools for turning ordinary photos into exceptional photos. And you can do it all in one easy-to-use, affordable package. Xara Designer Pro X11 is also a tremendous value. In addition to all the tools and features, you get a treasure chest of free clip art, photo art, cartoons and illustrations. You get free print and web themes that you can modify to your heart’s content. There are photo calendars, greeting cards and invitations, certificates, and logos. There are tons of widgets for e-commerce, forms, social media. It’s enough to make your head spin. The free stuff alone is worth the price of the program! In addition to 3 brand new website themes based on Xara’s wildly popular demo sites, there are 70 professionally designed website templates. Not just a theme page or two but complete sites that you can personalize any way you wish. Around 60 of these website themes come with Variants so you can create for mobile devices as well as desktop browsers. I plan to spend the next year mastering the cool new spiral SmartShape thingy, and finding creative ways to use the new Art Brushes. There just is so much to get excited about here. And remember, Help is as close as the TG icon on the right side of the screen. While the members of TalkGraphics.com are from all over the globe, we all have one thing in common, we love Xara and we love to share our ideas and to answer your questions and show you how to get the most out of your Xara software. When you have created your website masterpiece, post a link in the Xara Design Gallery. I don’t see why you are still reading this and why you have not already purchased and are busy using Xara Designer Pro X11.

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Download Your Free Trial Copy Today!

Get Your Heads in the Cloud With the Internet, people do not need to be in the same office, or even in the same city to work on the same project. It’s possible to collaborate from anywhere in the world, just as long as you have an Internet connection. “The Cloud” is a place on the Internet where files and applications are stored and can be accessed by people in multiple locations who can share and work on the same files. Dropbox and Google Drive are two popular cloud-based services. When you save your document, the document updates for all others who have Cloud-based access to that document. This process is known as syncing. Here’s how it works. You edit your document and save it in your Google Drive or Dropbox folder. The modified document is automatically updated in the Cloud. If there is an existing version of your document the document is updated and saved as a revised document. If a colleague edits and saves a document in a shared Dropbox or Google Drive folder, Designer Pro X11 alters you if it sees a change has been made in your Dropbox or Google Drive folder. You can also revert back to a previously saved version if you wish. It’s all very science fictiony!

The Best Set of Design Tools in the Business Xara Designer Pro X11 gives you a truly outstanding set of design tools that let you create documents, or illustrations, action- packed websites and powerful presentations, tools for publishing and editing ads, brochures, even books, and tools for turning ordinary photos into exceptional photos. And you can do it all in one easy-to-use, affordable package. Xara Designer Pro X11 is also a tremendous value. In addition to the all the tools and features, you get a treasure chest of free clip art, photo art, cartoons and illustrations. You get free print and web themes that you can modify to your heart’s content. There are photo calendars, greeting cards and invitations, certificates, and logos. There are tons of widgets for e-commerce, forms, social media. It’s enough to make your head spin. The free stuff alone is worth the price of the program! In addition to 3 brand new website themes based on Xara’s wildly popular demo sites, there are 70 professionally designed website templates. Not just a theme page or two but complete sites that you can personalize any way you wish. Around 60 of these website themes come with Variants so you can create for mobile devices as well as desktop browsers. I plan to spend the next year mastering the cool new spiral SmartShape thingy, and finding creative ways to use the new Art Brushes. There just is so much to get excited about here. And remember, Help is as close as the TG icon at the bottom of the screen. While the members of TalkGraphics.com are from all over the globe, we all have one thing in common, we love Xara and we love to share our ideas and to answer your questions and show you how to get the most out of your Xara software. When you have created your print or website masterpiece, post a link in the Xara Design or Web Design Gallery. If you are skeptical of my extravagant praise, that’s cool. You can download a free, fully functional 30- day trial copy and see for yourself.

MY SLIDE SHOW

Editing with Xara Online Designer Xara Online Designer gives you, your colleagues, or clients the ability to edit any Xara document using a simple Web browser. It can be any Web browser, even on a Mac computer, laptop, or on a mobile device such as a tablet or smart phone. You, your clients, and colleagues can open a .XAR or .WEB document, make text changes, and add or replace existing photos and publish the changes to the Web. When saved in Dropbox or Google Drive the documents are automatically synced to all devices that have Cloud-based access to that document. Xara Online Designer is still in Beta version and revisions are being made and features added and updated. For more information visit content.ixara.com/intro/

Xara Designer Pro X11 First Look

Xara Designer Pro X11