They include only the home page design, and many of the layouts are not adaptable beyond changing text. Web Builder’s templates are not so much jumping-in points as they are ideas. However, Web Builder does include drag-and-drop navigation–tabs, nav bars, menu bars, to name a few – that are customisable. There are no drag-and-drop design features in WYSIWYG Web Builder–buttons, widgets, color themes, etc.–like there are in Xara Web Designer MX 8 (also $50). I had difficulty resizing images while keeping the same size ratio (holding shift only constrains in one direction), and didn’t find the image editor great, so would recommend using a real image editor like Adobe Photoshop CS5 ($700), or the more affordable MAGIX Photo Designer or GIMP (both free), if your site is image-heavy. Web Builder does have a built-in image editor that enables you to make minor adjustments to your images. Although each drop down area includes a Pointer, or selector tool, you don’t need to choose the pointer in the correct area (Images, for example) to select the component. Add text, bulleted lists, tables, and more from the Standard area and add and manage your images through Images. Use Web Builder’s Shape, Polygon, or Curved Closed tools to draw your background components add text art, clip art, curves, and lines, all found nested within the Drawing area. Once you have a handle on where all the tool are within the Toolbox, Web Builder is not difficult to use to design a simple site from scratch but it’s not entirely easy either. The Toolbox contains drop down boxes that contain the tools to manage eleven different components of your design: Standard, Images, Form Controls, Media, Advanced, Navigation, Drawing, PayPal eCommerce, Login, Content Management System, and jQuery UI. Web Builder’s UI is a little overwhelming. But just because you don’t need to know how to write code, don’t think that you’ll be able to jump into Web Builder with no knowledge of how Web pages work: You’ll be doing some homework, especially to unlock the more advanced features of Web Builder. WYSIWYG Web Builder 8 (or What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) is just that.
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