Website made using only Xara Web Designer, and no other graphics or software tools.
Embedding Video (& other widgets)
It’s couldn’t be easier to embed YouTube videos, or any of the tens of thousands of third party ‘web widgets’.
Most providers of web widgets typically provide a short snippet of HTML on their website, and with Web Designer
you can now simply paste these directly onto the page. This automatically creates a placeholder with an
accurate preview of the widget. Simply preview your web page to see your fully functional widget.
If you have a video in MP4 format, you can just drop this on to the page to create an embedded video, along
with movie player. It couldn’t be easier. Here’s an example.
What’s more with embedded movies like this you can just resize it to be any required size on the page.
Google Maps
It’s just as easy to add an interactive Google Map widget. Let’s use one of the provided Widgets from the Widget
Gallery. Open the Designs Gallery, go to the Widgets, Forms and more -> Other Widgets section and drag and
drop the Google Map widget onto this page. It opens a configuration page (it’s actually just the Google maps
page). Go to the location you want on your map. Click the blue ‘Link’ on the top right of the window and copy
the second line of HTML. Now click the Insert button at the bottom of the window. After a few seconds you’ll see
your Google map gadget inserted on your page. Preview to see your fully functional embedded Google Map.
Tip: The Help button at the bottom of the configuration page tells you about each Widget.
Here’s an interactive Google Map of the
London Eye. In the web browser you can
drag it around and change the zoom etc