Xara Website Maker - 5.0 Operating Guide

2 Copyright

Copyright

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No part of this publication may be reproduced in the form of copies, microfilms or other processes, or transmitted into a language used for machines, especially data processing machines, without the express written consent of the publisher.

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MAGIX and MAGIX Website Maker are registered trademarks of MAGIX AG.

Other named product names may be registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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Preface

Those wishing to have a website of their own are confronted with a dizzying array of offers from various providers, as well as complicated technical requirements. Terms, such as HTML, PHP, MySQL, ASP, FTP etc. are a source of anxiety for beginners and advanced users alike.

Moreover, most software solutions designed for creating homepages can only be used offline, they create relatively static websites, and don't offer any webspace or top-level domains for publication. And all this is before the complicated process of creating websites has even begun.

This is where MAGIX Website Maker 5 comes into the picture. MAGIX Website Maker 5 is an all-around package which provides you with everything you need to know to create and maintain your personal website: Complete web hosting including webspace and a real domain (www.desiredname.co.uk). No more need to search for an appropriate webhosting provider or deal with complicated data transfers via FTP. You don't have to take care of a thing: Simply create your website and publish it with just one click. This makes MAGIX Website Maker 5 an all-around carefree package for every webmaster. This package impresses with ease-of-use and impressively animated flash websites, which add an entertainment touch.

This manual explains how everything works. First, you will receive a short introduction to MAGIX Website Maker 5 and its powerful features. After the quick start, a thorough course follows to help you build great websites with MAGIX Website Maker 5.

Have fun with MAGIX Website Maker 5,

The MAGIX team

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Table of Contents

Package contents 8 System requirements 8 Installation 9 Product activation 10

Introduction 11

What is MAGIX Website Maker 5? 11 Definition of concepts: Webpage or website? 11 Features 12 What's new in MAGIX Website Maker 5 13

Quick start 17

Start: Website Maker and Online World Control Center 17 3 steps to a professional website 19 Web hosting 23

Interface – The layout of MAGIX Website Maker 5 24

Website Maker and Control Center 24 Website Maker 25

Website Maker functions 35

Editing pages with the Page Manager 35 Filling your pages with the Object Manager 39 Scale, position, and mirror 47 Adjusting page contents with the Properties Manager 48 Link hidden page 50 Start website 51 Specify keywords for search engines 52 Export 52

Control Center functions 54

Control Center - Overview 54 Online Album 58 Website Maker 59

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Domain & Email 61

MAGIX services in detail 67

MAGIX Online Album 67 magix.info 68 MAGIX Magazine 69 MAGIX Online Print Service 69 Catooh – the Online Content Library 71 MAGIX Fotobuch 71 MAGIX Blog Service 72

Glossary 73 Index 77

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Customer Service

If you experience any problems with your MAGIX software, please get in touch with our support team: http://support.magix.net

Here's how to contact the MAGIX Customer Service team and access the following free offers:

 FAQs (frequently asked questions) and general Tips & Tricks: You'll find the

solution to most problems you may encounter when using the program here. Just in case you don't, there's also an email support form for your queries.

 Email support form: You can use the special form to supply our support staff

with information about your system. This information is used to quickly and competently solve whatever problem you may be experiencing. Simply fill it out and send it off!

 Support forum: You are not alone. Other users may have experienced similar

problems and might be able to help you.

Note: You will find the activation code on the cover of the installation disc of MAGIX Website Maker 5.

Europe

Here you can find a summary of our technical support telephone numbers:

http://support.magix.net/phone/uk

Mail:

MAGIX Development Support P.O. Box 20 09 14 01194 Dresden Germany

North America

Here you can find a

http://support.magix.net/phone/us

summary of our technical support telephone numbers:

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Mail:

MAGIX Customer Service 1105 Terminal Way #302 Reno, NV 89502

Please have the following information at hand:

 Which MAGIX program are you using (version)?  Which operating system do you use?  What make is your graphics card and what screen resolution do you use?  How large is your RAM?

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Before you start

Package contents

Program disc: This disc contains the MAGIX Website Maker 5 installation

manager.

Printed manual: The printed manual contains all necessary information for a quick start into the program.

Note: The complete documentation can be found in the Start Center of the installed version of MAGIX Website Maker 5. You can read it on your screen or print it. This requires the display program "Foxit Reader", which is located in the program folder of MAGIX Website Maker 5.

System requirements

Operating system:

 Mac OS X requires Mac OS X v. 10.0 or later  Microsoft

Windows® XP | Vista® | Windows 7

Processor:

 Mac: . PowerPC

recommended)

 PC: Min. Intel

G3 500 MHz (Intel CoreTM Duo 1.33 GHz or quicker)

Pentium® II or AMD® Athlon® 450 MHz or higher

Computer general

 Min. 512 MB (1 GB or higher)  CD installation only: CD-ROM drive, 50 MB free hard drive space  Monitor: Min. resolution 1024x600, 16 bit high color  Optional: 16 bit sound card

Internet access: Minimum DSL

Internet browser: Microsoft

Internet Explorer, version 6.0 or higher or Safari 4

or higher.

Further tested Internet browsers: Firefox 3.0, Opera 9

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More: Adobe

FlashTM Player version 8.0 or higher (latest version is

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recommended), Java 2 Runtime environment version 1.4.2 or higher (both available free of charge) and activated Javascript and Cookies (default settings)

Installation

Installation on your PC

Step 1

Insert the program disc into the CD/DVD drive of your PC. The installation manager starts up automatically in Windows. If this doesn't happen:

 Open the Windows Explorer and click the letter of the CD-ROM drive.  Now double-click on "Start.exe" to start the installation manager.

Step 2

 To begin installing MAGIX Website Maker 5, click on INSTALL. The MAGIX

Website Maker 5 installation program will appear.

Hint:During installation you will be asked (in case there are multiple users on your computer) if you would like to set up an administrator. The "Administrator only" option restricts use of the program to the administrator only. The "All users" option allows all users of the computer to use the program.

 Simply follow the instructions on screen and then click on "Continue". All files

are now copied onto the hard drive.

Step 3

Once the installation is complete, confirm the message by pressing "Finish". Now you can start the program at any time from the Windows "Start" menu.

Installation on netbooks

Due to their pared-down hardware outfit, netbooks don't have an optical drive. Therefore the program should not be installed from a CD. Simply open product activation (More Informationen can be found in the section "Product activation" on page 10) to start using MAGIX Website Maker 5.

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Installation on MACs

Step 1

Insert the program disc into the CD/DVD drive of your computer. Macintosh automatically displays the drive "Website Maker 4" on your desktop. Open it.

If the drive does not display "Website Maker 4" automatically, open the finder and click on the CD/DVD drive.

Step 2

 Move the Website Maker application into your program folder or to the link

with the same name located next to the Website Maker logo.

 Double-click on the Website Maker application icon in your program folder to

start MAGIX Website Maker 5.

Tip: Start MAGIX Website Maker 5 faster by moving the Website Maker application icon from your program folder into your doc.

Product activation

One-time activation of the product is required before you can use MAGIX Website Maker 5. Please proceed as follows:

PC/MAC

 Windows users start MAGIX Website Maker 5 from the Windows Start menu.  Macintosh-users open MAGIX Website Maker 5 from the program folder.

The clear Start Center of MAGIX Website Maker 5 opens. Click on the "Start Website Maker" button in the Start Center to start the program. If your product has not been activated yet, you can do that now.

Use the activation code on the package for activation. After successful activation, you will receive the access data for starting MAGIX Website Maker

Note: You will find the activation code on the cover of the installation disc of MAGIX Website Maker 5.

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Netbooks

Use the activation code on the package for activation. After successful activation, you will receive the access data for starting MAGIX Website Maker

Note: You will find the activation code on the leaflet in the MAGIX Website Maker 5 packaging.

Open the web address specified in the product activation for netbooks and follow the instructions.

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Introduction

What is MAGIX Website Maker 5?

MAGIX Website Maker 5 - the all-around package for dynamic Flash® websites

The name says it all: MAGIX Website Maker 5 creates and publishes your websites in professional quality. Quick, intuitive, and in high-quality design – includes videos, photos, music, and animations, directly online.

In the Website Control Center, your online administration tool, you always have an overview of your domains, emails, web space and user data. Whether from home or on the move, you can access and edit MAGIX Website Maker 5 via the Website Control Center from anywhere in the world (from an Internet café, for instance).

Definition of concepts: Webpage or website?

A website is composed of many web pages. A website is characterized by a uniform navigation and graphic design.

A web page (or an Internet page) is a document that can be called up by a program (e.g. a web browser) from a web server and presented on a computer screen. As a minimum, web pages consist of structured text and multimedia elements like images or animations. Every page can be addressed at least through one URL.

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Features

Flash® technology

Modern Flash with short loading times.

Online software – no installation required

MAGIX Website Maker 5 doesn't need to be installed locally, since it functions completely via the Internet. MAGIX Website Maker 5 is your control center for creating your own site and managing its content online, anywhere in the world, any time. With any up-to-date browser you can make changes from anywhere, and thanks to automatic updates, you'll always be using the latest program version.

Complete multimedia center

You can quickly upload, insert and present photos, videos, music or complete slideshows. That means that you can upload your newest photos while you're on holidays to show them to your friends.

Includes three web addresses (WSM4)

technology lets you create unique and animated web pages

Besides a real domain (www.yourdomain.com), you will also receive two subdomains (http://your-name.magix.net) including 5,000 MB of storage space. You can easily change to domains with the following endings: .COM, .NET, .ORG, .BIZ, .INFO, .AT, .CH, .NL, .CO.UK, .ES, .IT and .FR.

Synchronize with your MAGIX Online Album

On the MAGIX Online Album you can compile your personal media as interactive albums and present them online as slideshows, music, or video. The MAGIX Online Album is available free of charge and can also be reached via the Website Control Center.

If you have already added an Online Album, then you don't need to need to upload media you want to use again for your website. Instead, you can directly connect via "Magix -> Objects -> Online Album". You'll find all of your photos, videos, and music files here (from your Online Album).

All you need for perfect Flash® websites!

 Design templates: Numerous high-quality website templates in the latest

professional Flash

design with pre-finished, customizable subpages, start

pages, profile pages, photo pages, video pages, and much more.

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 Text & text effects: Freely positionable text fields with fantastic fonts and

animated text effects can be added and individually formatted with ease.

 Multimedia content: Select your favorite photos, spectacular slideshows,

videos and an online video player with your own background music, or integrate it all as an online music player with playlists.

 Decorative elements: Attractive design objects, plenty of vector shapes,

background images, buttons, and much more offer more possibilities for designing unique websites than ever.

 Animation objects: Large selection of dynamic, impressive animation objects

for breathtaking, moving websites.

 Links: Easily add links to your own or external websites.  Top extras: Enhance your website with a visitor counter, guest book, contact

form, and many other useful extras.

 Export function: Conveniently add individual components of your website

(e.g. video player, slideshow, online music player) or even the entire website to external sites as an embedded website.

What's new in MAGIX Website Maker 5

Your domain name of choice

MAGIX Website Maker 5, the all-around package, includes three domains: One personal top-level domain (www.desiredname.com), two subdomains, five email addresses and 5,000 MB of web space. Get your own real domain today!

Add Google Static Map

Now you can add a static image from Google Maps to your website (view page

45). This allows you to quickly enter destina

tions in a map, making it easier to

inform your website's visitors about a certain location.

Link to Facebook & Twitter

After publishing your website, you can make it more known by leaving messages on Twitter and Facebook.

Create animated Flash® widgets

Create animated Flash widgets for external HTML websites such as Ebay and MySpace with the Flash Widget Maker (view page 56). You'll find it in your Control Center under "Overview".

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Information: Widgets are small applications for displaying or playing back

different files. Widgets are no independent applications, but are embedded into websites, for example.

Upload and play animated GIFs

MAGIX Website Maker 5 now enables you to load and display animated GIFs on your website. You'll find all Gifs that are available as templates in the Object Manager under "My media > Uploaded > Other". Other Gifs can be made available via "Uploaded".

Interactive photo & video gallery with impressive effects

Enrich your website now with the new interactive photo & video gallery! Finally, you can present your photos & videos as clearly laid-out galleries with enlarging effects (lightbox) or conventionally in a new browser window. Your visitors will love it!

This is how it works:

Add an empty gallery obje

ct into the workspace of Website Maker via drag & drop. Gallery objects can be found in the Object Manager under "Media presentation". Fill the gallery object with your photos, videos, or even complete online albums. You can specify features like order, alignment, and size of the media as well as enlargement effects (lightbox or popup) via "Settings" in the Properties Manager.

Tip: You can also drag an online album onto your website and then select whether it should be displayed as a media player or gallery.

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Photos presented as filmstrips or photo tables

To add some spice to your photo presentations, you can add your photos to filmstrip templates or photo tables and present them in a creative way. You'll find the templates in the Object Manager under "Media presentation". If you hold the mouse over a template, a preview and the button "Insert" will appear.

Create your own buttons

Buttons that can be embedded into your website are available in the Object Manager under "Extras". Click on "Insert" to add the button template to the current page. Now you can edit and move it freely. Click on the button's text to access the text level where you can customize it.

Table templates for precise text management

Designing tables is no longer a problem thanks to the template included in MAGIX Website Maker 5 that you can adjust freely to meet your needs. The number of rows and columns, the table's total width, alignment of the individual text boxes, etc. can be customized in the Properties Manager. The template can be found in the Object Manager under "Text".

The new, extra-fast multi-file upload function

Now MAGIX

Website Maker 5 has a new, easier-to-use, and quicker file upload function. Starting now, individual files, multiple files, and even different file formats may be uploaded in a single process to your Online World's web storage. It couldn't be any quicker, safer, or more practical.

It's this easy:

Start MAGIX Website Maker 5 and open the Object Manager. Now click on "Upload". Use the "Select files" option to select media from your hard drive and load them into your webspace.

Tip: To add only selected files to the upload list, hold the Ctrl key down while you are selecting files. To upload all files of a folder, select the first file while holding the Shift key and click on the last file.

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After the upload has been completed, the corresponding web storage folder in the Object Manager will open. Simply insert files into your website by selecting the corresponding file and using drag & drop to add it to the workspace. Alternatively, select the file and click the "Add“ button.

36 great visitor counters for your website

We have increased the number of available website visitor counters. Thanks to 36 new visitor counters you can share the number of visitors on your website. Of course, you can change the counter's design any time.

Tip: Now you can also adjust the number displayed in the counter manually. Select the visitor counter on your website and open the properties manager. Use "Settings" to enter the desired number of visitors.

FTP access to your webspace

Your MAGIX Website Maker 5 website is safely located on the MAGIX server. If you wish to place additional pages or files online, use the additional FTP access. Log in on www.magix-online.com and use the link "Web hosting via FTP" provided via "Online storage".

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Quick start

Start: Website Maker and Online World Control Center

After successfully activating the product, you will receive your login data (access link, user name and password) via email, and then you're ready to get started. With this data and an Internet connection, you can work from home or from anywhere in the world using MAGIX Website Maker 5, making it easy to upload new material (holiday photos, etc. from an Internet café).

To start MAGIX Website Maker 5 there are three options:

 Click on the link in the email containing your login details.  Type (or copy) the link into your browser's address bar and press the "Enter"

key.

 Select the MAGIX Website Maker 5 entry from the "Start" menu of your

computer.

This should launch the login window for you to log in using your email address and user name. Following this, two webpages will be opened:

 In the background of your browser, you can see the Online World Control

Center

 Website Maker is in the foreground

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might look like this in your browser:

Note: If you start MAGIX Website Maker 5 via the "Start" menu on your

computer, then you will load both websites individually.

 Website Maker is your tool for creating and editing your own online presence.

 The Control Center is the command center of your website. Expand storage

The browser window for Website Maker

The browser window for the Online World Control Center

Build start and subpages, create a clear overview, develop the design, text, images and multimedia objects, upload your own photos, music, or videos, optimize it all for search engines, and much more.

for your website, send emails, and manage your Internet addresses (domains). You will also find the address of your first website that is automatically created as http://your-name.magix.net/website.

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3 steps to a professional website

When you launch MAGIX Website Maker 5 for the first time, you can immediately create a website in three quick steps.

Step 1: Select layout

The first step is to select the layout for your website from several professional designs.

For each layout you also get a series of suitable subpages. These are listed to the right.

If there are some individual pages which you don't need, then you can remove them with a click on the check boxes.

Give your website a logical name. Every website you add can be accessed again via "Open" in the main menu and edited as desire. You can save several website templates with different subpages and publish them as required.

Note: The website

name has nothing to do with the title of your website as it is

displayed when you access it online. This title is entered by you via "Settings

-> Text in the title bar of the web browser".

Step 2: Edit pages

Step 2 lets you customize your webpages to meet your exact requirements and enrich everything with your own content (e.g. photos, videos, music, text, effects, animations, etc.), since the templates are filled with example content to begin with.

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To do this, go to the Functions (view page

30) section located to the left and select "Pages"

to access the website that you

would like to edit.

Tip: You can rename each page by double-clicking the page name.

These names also appear in the main navigation.

In the page list you will see a list of all of the individual elements of the page, which you can hide or completely delete.

To the right, you can see the website with all of the objects in the workspace, and they can all be activated and edited by clicking on them.

Beneath the workspace you'll see an overview of all of the objects that can be integrated into you website. These include text elements, animations, and shapes etc.

Editing existing objects

The individual template sites are already provided with a number of elements like images and text. The Latin "filler" text has no meaning. It only illustrates where text can be placed and how it would look in this design.

Every object you select in the object list is automatically selected in the work space. In the workspace, you can customize the selected object or select a different object.

There are a number of ways that you can adjust the objects on the page:

 Change text by clicking the text field, deleting the Latin text, and then entering

whatever you want.

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 De

lete objects by selecting the corresponding object and pressing "Del" on

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the keyboard. Delete objects by selecting them from the object list below and clicking the red "X" (delete).

 Every object can be moved simply by clicking it and dragging it into position.  Use the handles (arrows) on the corners of objects to change the size of each

object.

Tip: By pressing the "Shift" key while changing the object's size, the page ratio can be locked, i.e. the object's width/length ratio will remain intact.

Loading new objects

Of course, you won't want to publish your website with the objects we have provided as examples – your own images, photos, videos, music, and also your own visitor counter and other extras can be integrated easily.

Loading your own objects (photos, videos, music) to your website:

1. Click on "My media" located beneath the workspace and select the

category "Uploaded".

2. Open the respective category (e.g. "Images").

3. Click the arrow button to upload, and then select the method which you

would like to use to upload.

4. Select the file(s) to be uploaded in the file selection dialog.

5. Drag the respective file with the mouse button pressed from the overview to

your website on the right, and place it over the image you would like to replace.

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New

text objects can be added in the following way:

1. Click on "Text" located beneath the workspace and open the category "Text

box". A preview list appears in the overview with possible fonts.

2. Select a font of your choice by clicking it.

3. Drag this text box onto the workspace by pressing the mouse button.

4. Click on the text box and enter your text.

In the same way, you can load all of the other elements and objects in the object manager.

 Open the respective category (My Media, text, animations, shapes,

decoration, picture frames, navigation, extras).

 Click on a category to open its preview list.  Select using the preview list, and then drag the object of your choice to the

workspace with the mouse button pressed.

It's best to open the categories in the object manager and have a look at everything which is available to you there.

Preview

Once all of your adjustments have been made, you can preview your website. Some objects like animations, text effects, slideshows, or videos are not shown in the workspace, but rather only in the preview.

Tip: Click on the preview often while working on your project to be able to get a better idea of how well your work matches what you have planned.

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Step 3: Publish website

If you are satisfied with the results you see in the preview and would like to continue by putting your website online, then simply click "Publish" to finish!

Now you and anyone else online can view your homepage from anywhere, any time at http://your-name.magix.net/website/.

Web hosting

To transfer the files of your website to MAGIX, you need an FTP software (available for free online). Most website creation programs have an integrated FTP function. Use their program help (F1) to find out more.

To use FTP, you require the address of the FTP server and your Online World login details:

 The address of the MAGIX FTP server is: ftp.magix-online.com  Your login details are the email address registered with MAGIX (often called

user name) and the password you selected.

soon as your website has been transferred to MAGIX successfully via FTP, you can open it via your Online World web address http://yourname.magix.net/public. Alternatively, you may register (view page

62) real domains (for example, www.desiredname.com) in

the Online World at

any time.

More information http://www.magix-online.com/de/hilfe__support/webhosting

.1836.html can be

found in the online FAQ's at magix-online.com.

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Interface – The layout of MAGIX Website Maker 5

This chapter will provide you with an overview of the areas and key functions available in MAGIX Website Maker 5 and where to find them.

Website Maker and Control Center

The browser content here.

The browser window for the Website Control Center; manage your website here.

Website Maker is your tool for creating and editing your own online presence. Build the start and subpages, create a clear overview, develop the design, text,

window for Website Maker; fill up your website with your own

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images and

multimedia objects, upload your own images, music, or videos,

optimize it all for search engines, and much more...

The Website Control Center is the command center of your website. Expand storage space for your website, send emails (the Website Maker deluxe package includes a domain + 5 inboxes), and manage your Internet addresses (domains). You will also find the address of your first website that is automatically created as http://your-name.magix.net.

Website Maker

Website Maker helps you edit the contents of your future website.

Click "More" to open the Menu (view page 27). Toolbar (view page 25) with all major functions for quick editing. The "Functions" area with all pages (view page 30) and integrated

objects. The workspace (view page 30) displays the web page you are currently working on. Object Manager (view page 32) to fill your website with content.

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