| As with all of the
Xara products, this is simplicity itself to use. The navigation bar on this
page was made with Webstyle, and took very little time to make - the
hardest part was in deciding which style to use!
Webstyle's professional templates allow you to easily create all the web
graphics you need - NavBars, buttons, banners, bullets, dividers,
backgrounds and 2D and 3D headings.
Webstyle is an essential tool for anyone creating Web graphics. With
Webstyle, making professional quality Web graphics is both quick and easy
for everyone, regardless of skill levels.
The results are guaranteed to be high
quality both in terms of the on-screen appearance and in terms of artistry
and originality.
No complex software to learn, no designer's fees to pay, no graphics
expertise needed and no design skill required - all for just $69 US, that's
less than the cost of hiring a designer to create even one banner ad!
How's it done?
It couldn't be easier, you simply generate your graphics by modifying any
graphic chosen from the wide range of ready-made Webstyle templates
designed by professional artists.
The second important feature is that the templates are vector graphics -
and the advantage of vector graphics is that, unlike bitmaps, they can be
scaled and re-coloured without any loss of quality. And the XARA technology
means that the rendering is super-fast and the output is fully anti-aliased
and dithered for the sharpest possible on-screen result.
Webstyle graphics - quality assured
Webstyle includes an extensive range of ready-made NavBars, animated
banners, 2D and 3D headings, buttons, dividers, bullets and bitmap
textures. There are also complete matching themed sets of graphics.
These images are created by professional designers using Xara X, one of the
most powerful graphics creation tools for Windows. This means that they
have a rich variety of attributes to start with - for example effects
created using graduated transparency, blends, molds and perspective
envelopes, a combination of vector and bitmap images, including text.
The 3D headings were created in Xara3D and have a variety of lighting and
surface attributes as well as a collection of various extrusions, bevel and
font types.
Customizing Webstyle graphics
The user interface has been specifically designed with ease of use in mind,
allowing you to effortlessly edit the graphics supplied with Webstyle to
suit your particular site.
Selects the type of image to work on - NavBars, Theme Sets, Buttons,
Bullets, Backgrounds, 2D headings, 3D headings, Dividers, Logos and
animated Banner Ads
Allows you to browse through the different styles of the image type
selected. The selected styles shown in the interactive preview window and
all changes are displayed real time - no waiting, results are instant.
Text can be added or deleted and can be fully edited, including the font
used, weight, position, tracking, line spacing and aspect ratio of the
text.
All the individual colour elements can be altered through an intuitive
palette, using Hex values or RGB/HSV colour models.
The fill texture of an object (if the design has one) or the background can
be changed to any of the selection in the Texture gallery - bitmaps can
also added to the gallery from any external source in order to match the
intended web page background - and they can be recoloured to create a huge
variety of different texture designs.
If the design has a bevel then its depth, profile, contrast and light angle
can be altered. The bevel and depth can be changed for all 3D headings.
High quality soft shadows can be added or removed and you also have control
over the angle, fuzziness, darkness and whether it is a slanted or drop
shadow.
You can re-scale the whole graphic or just make the buttons wider.
Determine which states are required, the colours of the individual states,
the button text, the URLs to link to and button spacing. It's as simple as
that, the NavBar is exported with all the necessary HTML and JavaScript.
Webstyle 3 gives the option of dynamic navbars - check out link at the top.
Export options
The export options give you full control over colour, palette, transparency
and format (GIF, PNG, JPEG) so that the final Web-ready graphic output is
optimal in both size and quality.
The result is that your web site has graphics created by a designer, but
customised for your own site without any loss of quality whatsoever - and
without the designer's bill!
NavBars can have up to three states of rollovers - MouseOver, MouseOff and
Selected. When you make a NavBar in Webstyle 2 the program will export all
the necessary HTML and JavaScript for you too.
Not only does Webstyle include specific NavBar designs, but it also allows
you to create NavBars out of any of the other single button designs too.
When you purchase Xara Webstyle, you will be sent a
CD-ROM packed with extras. All this for just $69 US.
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