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Embedding Movies, Flash And Other Widgets
You can embed a wide variety of interactive widgets easily; YouTube™ videos, Google Maps, Flash
files or any HTML snippet. This is done using placeholders, which are objects (simple rectangles or
photos) that have an associated piece of HTML or Flash file that is substituted for the placeholder when
saving your website. For full details on widgets and placeholders, see the Website Widgets Chapter
in the pdf manual.
The Designs Gallery contains a frequently updated selection of widgets from a variety of providers.
Simply drag and drop these onto your web page. A web browser window appears which takes you to
the widget providers site, where you can choose and customize the widget. When you're done you click
the Insert
button at the bottom of the browser window and the widget is inserted into your page with an
automatically generated preview image. It's that easy!
Or you can find widget sites yourself and just as easily add the code to your site.
Flash Clipart
Xara Web Designer 7 Premium includes the ability to create Flash animations from scratch (see the
Flash Animations section in the pdf manual), but also includes a range of Flash templates you can
customize. Flash templates cannot be dragged onto the page directly, but have to be opened as a
separate animation document, where you can customize it as required, and then save the Flash (.swf) file
to your local disk. Then use "File" > "Import"
or drag and drop the .swf file onto your web page.
A placeholder image is automatically rendered for you and this will appear on your page. Preview your
page to see your working Flash animation. Alternatively you can create your own placeholder object
(e.g., a rectangle) and use the Placeholder tab of the Web Properties
dialog to associate it with your Flash file.
Widgets
Some of the items in the Designs Gallery
are dynamic widgets that you can add to your website quickly and easily. When you drag one of these
onto your page, a browser window opens onto a widget website which allows you to configure the
widget. Therefore you must be online to use widgets.
Once you've finished configuring your widget click the Insert
button at the bottom of the browser window. A placeholder image is automatically generated which is a
static snapshot of what your widget will look like when it's viewed in your website. The widget won't
work on the page in Xara Web Designer 7 Premium - you just see the preview image. Simply preview
your page to see the widget in action!
If you find other interesting widgets out there on the Internet, normally the widget provider will give you a
piece of HTML code to copy and paste into your website. With Xara Web Designer 7 Premium this is
very easy. All you need to do is go into the Selector Tool
and then paste the code into your page. Xara Web Designer 7 Premium will detect that you've pasted
HTML code and will render a placeholder image for you automatically, which will appear on your page
after a few seconds. The code is already attached to the placeholder, so just preview your page to see
your widget working!
Alternatively you can paste widget code directly into the head of your page if necessary. Click the
Placeholder tab in the Web Properties dialog and click the HTML code (head)
button, then paste your code into the HTML code (head) dialog.
For more information see the Widgets Chapter
in the pdf manual.
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