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Automatic placeholder generation
When you press the Insert button, if Xara Web Designer 7 Premium found the widget code the widget
website window is closed and you will see an indication that Xara Web Designer 7 Premium is busy
rendering a placeholder image. After a few seconds an image of your widget appears on your page. For
most widgets this is exactly the same size as the widget itself, so you can position it where you like using
the Selector Tool
.
Now all you have to do is preview your web page and you should see your new widget working on your
page!
Widget site membership
Some widgets may require you to open an account with the widget provider, before you can use them.
Most are free, but some offer premium services over and above the free offering. See each individual
widget and the information on the widget provider's site for details.
Editing existing widgets
At any time you can double click the widget placeholder (or right click and choose Edit Widget
) in your Web Designer Premium's page to return to the widget provider's website so you can easily
modify or replace the widget.
Those widget providers who give you an account, will normally also keep a copy of any widgets you've
created. This means you can sign into your account while going through the insertion process above and
then find, modify and insert a widget that you've created previously. Inserting existing widgets is just like
inserting newly created widgets ? just click Insert when you are offered the HTML code, or copy the
HTML code for the widget to the clipboard and then click Insert
.
Locally Editable Widgets
Some widgets that you drop onto your page from the Designs Gallery
won't open a browser window as described above for Web Editable Widgets. These are Locally
Editable Widgets that you edit directly in Web Designer Premium using a separate document window.
Editing
After dropping such a widget on your page, double click on it to edit. A new document window opens
in Web Designer Premium (the widget's "editing document"). What that document window shows will
depend on the specific widget, but typically you'll see a multi-page document that allows you to
conveniently edit and customize all the content for the widget.
Normally there will be some specific instructions shown to the side of or above the first page, describing
what aspects of the widget you can edit in the document and any aspects that are not editable. In most
cases, you can edit the text you see using the Text Tool, but you can't normally change the font or style
of the text. You can replace photos by dropping new photo files onto the images from Windows
Explorer, just as you replace photos in normal documents. And you can edit the photos using the Photo
Tool, adjust photos using the Fill Tool
, etc.
Look at each page in turn and customize the text and photos. Some objects may be locked (clicking on
them does nothing) which tells you that you can't edit that aspect of the widget, or perhaps it should be
modified by changing unlocked objects on one of the other pages. Any locked objects are present as a
visual aid, to help make the context of the unlocked editable parts of the design clear.
Adding more content
Some widgets will allow you to add more content to the widget by duplicating the pages shown (right
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