To decide for yourself see this list of the differences at The jump from version 11 to 365 refers to a new deal that gives you free updates to features and content throughout the year after you buy the program. It’s twice the price of the standard version, but even for casual users we think it’s good value. See also: SERIF PagePlus X8 Review The Premium edition offers professional features like embedded fonts, e-commerce (selling products from your website via credit-card payments), animations (see image above right), sitemaps and Google Analytics, along with 166 business themes that were previously available to buy separately. External web services – YouTube videos, Google Maps, AdSense adverts and so on – can also be inserted from a library of ‘widgets’. You can also start from a blank slate and add elements including navigation, buttons, sliders, accordion menus and forms to construct your pages. Alternatively, get yourself a web-design program like Xara Web Designer.Xara’s approach has always been to offer a wide variety of templates containing dummy text and pictures that you replace with your own – and that continues in this latest version.

So these days the best options are either to use an online service that does most of the work for you, such as Weebly, or (if you don’t mind paying a subscription) Squarespace. But things have got more complicated, not least because people use a wider variety of computers and mobile devices to browse the web. Xara Web Designer 365 Premium Review – Once upon a time, learning some basic HTML and CSS commands was enough to put together a competent web page.

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