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How To: Add Title, Description, Keywords and/or Phrases for Xara Web Designer 7 Premium

This web design tutorial will teach you how to add titles and descriptions that are relevant to your web page. Also you will learn how to add keywords for your website by using the website properties panel to add relevant keywords and phrases to your document in Xara Web Designer. The concepts taught for this web design tutorial are also referred to as Search Engine Optimization (SEO) meta tags.

How To: Apply Line Strokes in Xara Web Designer 7 Premium

Web Design Tutorial for Xara Web Designer to help you learn how to apply line strokes to objects. Our web design tutorials are geared toward complete beginners although each web design tutorial will go deeper into helping you understand how to use the Xara Web Designer software. Line strokes a beneficial because it allow you to give objects in your web design space a unique look. In this web design tutorial I will experiment and show you some of the different variations of patterns that can b...

How To: Flip Object Horizontal & Flip Vertically in Xara Web Designer

In this Xara web designer tutorial you will learn how to use flip horizontal and vertical feature. The Xara Web Designer flip tool is used to change the orientation of an object. Imagine that the flip tool was a mirror and you could reflect an object in the opposite direction and that will give you an idea of how it works. The Xara Web Designer flip tool is great for creating reflecting objects, which you will get an opportunity to do in a much later tutorial.

How To: Embed a Youtube Video Using Xara Web Designer

In this web design tutorial learn how to embed a YouTube video for your website design. This Xara Tutorial takes you step by step through the process and understanding of embedding a video for your Xara Web Designer website.

How To: Create Web Design File Backups Xara Web Designer 7 Premium

In this web design tutorial we will show you how to protect yourself from losing your work just in case the program malfunctions, computer crashes or you accidentally forget to save document and so on. I highly recommend you utilize this Web Design Tutorial especially if you are working on large websites for clients.

How To: HTML Web Design Tutorials for HTML Heading Tags H1 to H6 Lesson 3

This HTML Web Design tutorial will explain how to add a Heading tag for your website. The heading tag is very important because it helps search engines to determine what the main topic is on a particular web page within your website. The HTML codes for heading tags range from h1 to h6 with h1 being the most important or in other words the main heading HTML web design tag. Make sure to give the h1 tag the most importance in terms of titles on your web page for headings. Another rule I recommen...

How To: Change Multipage View vs. Single Page View for Xara Web Designer 7 Premium

Website Design Tutorial for Xara Web Designer learning how to switch between single page view vs. multi-page view. When working with your web design it is important to understand, which website design view is best for completing your project. This web design tutorial covers two of in my opinion the most important views for your web design work environment.

How To: for HTML Structure - Opening and Closing Tags

Learn how to setup up a basic structure for a HTML web design document, define the HTML version, open and close HTML tags and learn how to apply the proper file extensions when saving document in notepad. This web design tutorial is by no means a complete structure for HTML coding and is only a brief introduction to HTML web design. This video will only go over a brief introduction to the structure of an HTML document and in a future tutorial we will go over additional components that are nee...

How To: Test Web Browser Compatibility Xara Web Designer

Xara Website Designer Tutorial learn how to test website compatibility. This website design tutorial emphasizes the importance of compatibility for end users. If your website design does not work in certain web browsers its important to address the issues before your website begins to grow larger.

How To: Put Text on a Curve Xara Web Designer

This Professional Website design Tutorial will show you how to place text on a curve using the line tool. However you can put text on the outline of shapes and other objects.

How To: Repel Text in Xara Web Designer

In this web design tutorial learn how to repel text around objects. This Professional website design tutorial will also explain why it is important to have the objects in proper order for the repel function to work properly.

How To: Intro to Navigation Menus Xara Web Designer

In this Web Design Tutorial you learn how to convert the mouseover state into a navigation menu. Once the navigation menu is created you will be able to use the navigation bar properties to make additional modifications to your website menu.

How To: What Is HTML Hyper Text Markup Language?

This HTML web design tutorial will explain what HTML is and how it can benefit you rather you are looking to build a website from the ground up or you are planning on using a combination of automated software and HTML Design and need the flexibility to still make fine tune edits to your website. From a simplistic view the primary purpose of HTML design is to interpret and display text based content in a given web browser. For example when you read articles online from places like wall-street ...

How To: Add and or Switch Keyboard Language

In this Windows 8 Tutorial you will learn how to add different languages to your Keyboard. This is very beneficial especially with the world becoming more global and connected. Once you add additional languages to your keyboard you will have the option to switch between those keyboard languages. Although not shown in video if you press the windows key plus the space bar button it will automatically switch between the languages you have activated in Windows 8. In this windows 8 tutorial I will...

How To: Create MouseOver State Xara Web Designer

In this web design tutorial learn how to create a mouseover state using mouseoff and mouseover layers. The mouseover state will allow more interactivity. Basically when a user places their cursor over the mouseoff object the mouseover object will be revealed. Common uses of this feature is to create a color highlight or texture change.

How To: Use Transparency Tool Xara Web Designer

In this web design tutorial learn how to apply flat fill transparency vs. linear transparency fill. This web design tutorial will give you a very basic understanding of how to apply transparencies and show objects that are underneath transparent objects.

How To: Disable Automatic Maintenance Windows 8

In this Windows 8 Tutorial you will learn how to disable automatic maintenance. Their are really two situations I can think of when you would want to disable automatic maintenance in Windows 8. The first being if your Windows 8 computer came with a Solid State Disk then you will probably want to disable automatic maintenance. The reason being is that a solid state disk does no benefit from defrags and the automatic maintenance automatically defrags your hard drive and this will take away from...

How To: Change Tile Size for Windows 8 Metro Applications

In this Windows 8 Tutorial you will learn how to change the application tile size for metro applications. If the application is not a metro style application you will not be able to re-size it. Their are a few benefits to changing the tile size of applications including the ability to have more applications viewable in smaller space so that you don't have to scroll through assuming you make applications smaller. Enlarging the application will allow you to see more information about that app. ...

How To: Use Solo Mode, Locking Layers and Hiding Layers Xara Web Designer

In this web design tutorial you will learn how to manage web design layers efficiently by using solo mode, hiding layers and locking layers. This Xara Web Designer tutorial will show you the importance of using these features to manage your website design.

How To: Manage Layers Brief Introduction

In this web design tutorial learn to create and delete layers. This web design tutorial for Xara Web Designer also covers deleting pages, deleting objects on different layers and re-arranging layers that have objects on them. A brief discussion about MouseOff Layer and MouseOver layer is also introduced in this Xara Tutorial. I would say this is one of the single most important Xara Web Designer Tutorials because layers allow you to do so many unique things with your website within Xara Web D...

How To: Manage a Multi-Page Document in Xara Web Designer

In this web design tutorial Learn how to create a multi-page document, duplicate and create new pages and edit page file names. This Web Design Tutorial for Xara Web Designer is really important because it also covers why you should never change the "index.htm" file name for your homepage.

How To: Search Windows 8 Store Applications

In this Windows 8 Tutorial you will learn how to search for application in the Windows 8 store. I know it can be a bit confusing for those who have just moved to the Windows 8 store on how to search for store applications in fact it took me like an hour to figure out how to search because all the visual cues were hidden away. However when you finish watching this Windows 8 tutorial you will see it is as easy as being able type on your keyboard to find applications in the Windows 8 store.

How To: Use the Shape Tool in Xara Web Designer

In this web design tutorial learn how to use the shape tool. In This Web Design tutorial for Xara Web Designer you will learn how to create straight and curved lines and smooth and cusp joins. Also this Xara Tutorial covers deleting and breaking nodes apart on a given line. The shape tool will allow you to make custom shapes and objects to give your website a creative boost.

How To: Use Windows 8 Charms Bar Shortcut

In this Windows 8 Tutorial you will learn how to use the shortcut key for accessing the charms bar in Windows 8. There are a few benefits to this for one the charm bar remains in place even if you don't have your cursor over it also you save yourself time by not having to go all the way to the upper right hand corner of your screen every-time you want to access the windows 8 charms bar.

How To: Windows 8 Shutdown Settings - Hibernate, Sleep, Restart and More

In this Windows 8 Tutorial you will learn how to shutdown your PC. Also you will be able to modify the shutdown settings so that you have access to additional options when you shutdown your computer such a hibernation and sleep mode. If their are shutdown options you don't want displayed you can disable them in the shutdown settings for Windows 8.

How To: Use the Straight Line Tool in Xara Web Designer

In this web design tutorial learn how to use the straight line tool. Although the straight line tool might seem like a useless tool I can tell you from experience it is very useful. Especially if you have ever attempted to draw a straight line with a tool other than the straight line tool. There are many ways you could use the straight line tool such as dividing content, design graphics, separating navigation menu headers and much more. My recommendation would be that you take a look at some ...

How To: Analyze and Defragment to Optimize Windows 8 Hard Drives

In this Windows 8 Tutorial I will show you how to use the defragment tool to analyze and if necessary optimize your hard drive to make your computer run more efficiently. By default if you are on Windows 8 your computer should be set to a re-occurring schedule for defragmenting your Hard Drives. Thanks for watching our Windows 8 tutorials.

How To: Change Windows 8 Update Settings & Check Optional Updates

In this Windows 8 Tutorial I will show you how to change your windows update settings and check for optional updates as well. The settings that you applied for automatic maintenance settings in one of our previous tutorials will directly effect your windows update settings and will also be shown in this tutorial. After checking for critical updates you will also have the opportunity to learn how to install optional updates.

How To: Use Mould Tool for Adding Envelopes and Perspectives for Xara Web Designer

Use the Xara Web Designer 7 Premium Mould tool to mould, re-shape and change perspectives of objects. The Xara Web Designer Mould tool will allow you to create some very interesting effects to make your website stand-out and have depth. Even the thumbnail shown for this web design video tutorial was created with the envelope tool. If you have ever seen the software boxes shown on various those are usually created with an envelope tool to give the box its perspective.

How To: Pin Applications to Task Bar Windows 8

In this Windows 8 Tutorial you will learn how to pin application to the task bar. If you work with certain programs very often it will be beneficial to pin those Windows 8 applications to your task bar in the desktop view. Once you pin an application to task bar in desktop view it will always be visible too you and with one click you will be able to launch application. Thank you for viewing our Windows 8 tutorials. If you need help with a certain area of Windows 8 and would like us to make a ...

How To: Use Bevel Tool Xara Web Designer

Use the Xara Web Designer 7 Premium Bevel tool to give depth to objects. In This Web Design Tutorial for Xara Web Designer you will learn to edit bevel type, size, contrast, outer bevel, inner bevel and much more. Watch the web design video walk-through below.

How To: Change Automatic Maintenance Settings in Windows 8

In this Windows 8 Tutorial I will show you how to adjust the automatic maintenance settings. The automatic maintenance settings deals with thing such as software updates, security scans and system diagnostics. If the settings in your automatic maintenance settings panel in Windows 8 are not set at a time your computer is on it want run the maintenance unless you set the option that to wake up your computer up at the scheduled maintenance time.

How To: Use the Zoom and Push Tool in Xara Web Designer

Learn to Zoom to page, drawing, selection, previous, 100% and scale by numerical factor using zoom tool in Xara Web Designer. The zoom to page option is great for when you need to see all the web design elements that are shown on your web page at once.

How To: Use the Text Tool in Xara Web Designer

Learn to use text area, text column, spell check, dictionary tool, font-faces and font-size and text justifications. Many other text attributes are covered as well. Their are some other features available for the text tool but they will not be covered until a much later tutorial. If you have any questions or tutorial request just leave a comment.

How To: Use the Fill Tool, Fill Type, Fill Effect, & Bitmap Fill in Xara Web Designer

The fill tool will allow you to alter the appearance of objects in your web design document and can be very useful for marketing purposes. The fill tool can be used to give objects one solid color for simple designs.

How To: Edit Quick Shapes, Info Bar, & Tool Modes in Xara Web Designer

In this web design tutorial, you will learn to modify and create various styled quick shapes using info bar and tool modes. As you follow through future tutorials, you will start to realize how important the info bar is for using the Xara Web Designer software.