web design software review
welcome.in this tutorial you'll see how easy it is to create websites with incomedia websitex5. run the program and click on the “startâ€button, then follow the 5 steps to create your first website.first, choose whether you want to create a new project or change an existing one.in the first step, the general set up will cover the website title, author and address.the style of a website is very important. let's carry on, choosing how the website graphics is going to look like. you can start from a predefined template or one previouslysaved or from a blank model. website x5 has a gallery of 1,500 ready-to-use templates. they are organized in categories
and you can use the previews to find the one that's right for you the templates list gets automatically updated via internet, so you will always have new looks available at your fingertips.if the default templates aren't right for you, you can create your own and give it aname so that, if you want to, you can import and export it and share it with other people.once the template has been chosen, you can modify it to fit your personal style. as astarting point you can start by changing its stucture then its graphic properties.first of all, decide whether you prefer a horizontal or vertical menu for your website.then you can define each section of the page, for example, the background, the heading,the menu, or the footer, importing pictures
and setting margins and alignments.you can see your template taking shape in the preview, that is updated in real time.now it's time to work on the styles to apply to the project. you can define styles forthe various text types in the pages... or the look of the main menu.you can play with all aspects of it. you can, for example, define the margins and buttonalignment, create various button states with different colors, use the availableinternal buttons library or use the built-in editor to create 3d buttons, choosing their shape and style. you can also customize the drop-down menus in the same way. then, you can define the tooltips on links, the showbox window style, which shows
pictures over the main window and thee-mails sent from the website the website, that can be personalized with company logo and colors. you can use the built-in editor to work onthe header and footer, to finish off both default and custom templates.you can add your company's logo and name to the heading. it just takes a few clicks toformat your text and add filters and special effects which, with other products, wouldusually mean using complicated graphic programs it's just as easy to add buttons, flash animation, html code or a website search field.having an integrated library composed by over 250,000 images, the creation of slides shows is a kid's play. a powerful search engine
will help you in finding the images that willfit just right your project. the images are automatically downloaded and inserted intothe project. a quick glance at your project preview willassure you that the projet has been completed. now you can start working on the website map and creating the actual contents. the website map is a crucial part of a website.we're talking about the tree structure that organizes all the pages in the website.creating a website map with website x5 is very easy: add the pages you want toinclude, even if they are empty at the moment, organize them into the various levels andgive them a suitable name. you can drag pages and levels to differentplaces on the map, as necessary.
click on the “preview†button to makesure that website x5 has created all the pages, linked them together and dynamically created the navigation menu. don't worry if you're still not sure aboutthe final website contents. you can start with a draft version of the map and changeit whenever you want. to add contents to a page, use website x5's page layout table and the list of objects. the page layout table represents the pageyou're working on. each cell can have one object. drag a text object to a cell and animage object to the cell next to it for a classic side-by-side layout.you can add extra rows and columns to the table, and you can change the size of objectsby dragging them through cells or pulling
the selection anchors so one object occupies several adjacent cells. double-click on the text object you have added to open the editor so you can edit it. you can also paste in text that you've copiedfrom another file. if you want to create a hypertext link, selectthe word which will be the link and click on the “insert link†button. you can choosewhat happens with the link: choose the option to display a video in another window in the page. then select the video's file and add a caption.you can create the tooltip for the link, giving the text and picture to be used for it.now, you just have to confirm your work. open the preview in the browser andmove the cursor to the new link:
when the mouse passes over the link, yourtooltip appears, and when you click the mouse the video shows over the page.now, let's go back to the page layout table and deal with the image object.double-click on the image object in the table and import the file to use. you can use high-resolution photos because website x5 will automatically save an optimized copy of it to display online.click on the “edit†button to open the editor and work on the picture.you've got all the usual commands for cutting and rotating the picture, but there is more:you can add a filter, apply a watermark so your picture can't be copied,put a mask over it, choose a frame for it and use the special effects.it's just as easy to zoom-in on the picture
and protect it against unauthorizedcopying. you can also choose from a number of mouseover effects. confirm and click on the “previewâ€: youcan see that your page is taking shape with the picture and its special effects.let's go to a different page and create a photo gallery. drag the gallery object toa cell and double-click to work on the properties. in the list section, you create the list ofpictures for the gallery. you can include videos from youtube too.select the pictures and choose a transition effect: there are over 20, such as fade, scroll, rotate, blinds... confirm and click on the “previewâ€: there'syour gallery with all your favorite photos,
already optimized so that they'll show upimmediately on the web. website x5 offers a number of different types of gallery. go back to the style section and choose a horizontal gallery.you can define the style for the thumbnails that website x5 creates for you. so, confirm and try it out. here's the updated photo gallery: youcan quickly scroll the thumbnails and click on the one you want to look at.you can try out other gallery types: choose “thumbnails in rowsâ€.now all the pictures are shown as thumbnails and you click on them to see the enlargedpicture. you can move from one picture to another without having to go back to the thumbnails.now you know how to create web pages using
the page layout table and inserting the necessaryobjects. you've seen how easy it is, and it's just as easy to make changes: website x5 will recreate the page with the new selections! there are some very interesting objects touse in the list, such as: the e-mail form object, useful for creatinga contact page, for example; the product catalog object, essential forcreating an online store. the html code object, very important for expert users; furthermore, website x5 makes available an array of optional objects that can be used to enhance your pages with new kind of content.now you can create all the pages you need for your website, organizing the page layout table as needed and adding all the necessary
contents.website x5 includes lot of advanced settings which you can use to make your website even more professional. in the “statistic, seo and code†section,you can add the website statistics service of google universal analitycs or the google webmaster tools. you can also indicate that the sitemap.xmlfile is to be created automatically: this file is used by search engines to index webpages. you can also protects the pages' html code.more advanced users can edit the html code produced by website x5 in order to make it fit to specific needs. the welcome page is a useful front cover for offering, for example, a choice of languages
to consult the website in.adverts can be images or animation that may appear superimposed in the right hand corner, or at the top or bottom of the page. once active, when the page opens yousee the banner that may advertise a product, or give help or invite visitors to followyou on the social networks. among the tools available in the advanced settings you will find the blog, so you can create your online diary.you can simply enable the comments and vote management.moreover, if you have many information to deliver, you can publish your own rss feed. the data management section permits you to define all the collected data exporting methods, using if needed, a database.
organizing access to reserved members' areas is simple: once you have created the administrator profiles, groups and new users, given them login names and passwords, you just have to go back to the map in step 2 and lock the pages with reserved access, naming the users and groups and their access rights. the last, but not least important, of theadvanced functions is the “e-commerce shopping cartâ€. in a few easy steps you can createan online store to sell your products online. create a product catalog with all your products in it. give each product a name or a code, a price, the applicable vat rate, linksome images, add an option and apply a discount. then, indicate theshipping and payment methods. the shopping
cart accepts all major credit cards and paypal for payments. when you have completed your website, you are ready to publish it on the internet, save it on another hard disk, or move it to another computer. to put your website on the internet, justenter the server access data that your provider sends you. if you update your website, youonly need to re-publish files that have been changed: this will save you a lot of time!website x5's ftp engine supports secure connections and works in multi-session: when publishing is started, it opens a connection and starts exporting the files.the last thing is to tell everybody that your website is online: you can notify google orpost an update on your facebook or twitter
page. thanks to website x5, your website will be online in no time.you'll have a top-quality professional website that works perfectly with all browsers andmobile devices. ... with text, slideshow and photo galleries,a full service online store completed with zoom in capabilities, e-mails andan interactive map. so, let your imagination run away with you!download the website x5 demo and enjoy discovering what you can do!
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