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    #1

    Xara Web Designer and Alpha

    Is there a documentation on how to combine both?
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    Re: Xara Web Designer and Alpha

    Did you search before you posted this?
    -Steve
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      #3
      Re: Xara Web Designer and Alpha

      It's a bit old, but there is a set of videos which is a decent intro but not as in depth as one would like.

      Intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG7nWT6LtMo

      Set: https://www.alphasoftware.com/shop/i...sp?PRODID=1249
      Last edited by iRadiate; 09-28-2015, 11:48 AM.
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        Re: Xara Web Designer and Alpha

        Originally posted by Steve Workings View Post
        Did you search before you posted this?
        I should have been more specific. Sorry. Is there a VERY DETAILED documentation to combine Xara Web Designer and Alpha A? Hope there will be more videos on this like the Grid and UX Component

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          #5
          Re: Xara Web Designer and Alpha

          There was a longer video on the subject a few years back....seems to me it was a paid kinda deal?

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            Re: Xara Web Designer and Alpha

            Originally posted by gregincolumbus View Post
            There was a longer video on the subject a few years back....seems to me it was a paid kinda deal?
            I think the second link I posted in my response might be what you are thinking of ... it was probably included if you got a package deal of some sort.
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              Re: Xara Web Designer and Alpha

              Ok that could be.....I didn't watch it....seems like I got it on a package deal back with V10 or so.

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                Re: Xara Web Designer and Alpha

                Jetson, I wrote a lengthy response and I guess I just closed the window without posting...I have to agree to say that there is NO html website editor out there like xara or webplus that you can create a page with fields and some nifty layout and expect it to work with alpha like it was married to it. I know RIGHT where your coming from on this but unfortunately no-one at alpha does - or at least is making an effort to meld the two and in my opinion that would be the END ALL BE ALL turning point for ANY database driven RAD tool. A WYSIWYG dev tool - so far its not impossible but by all means it is near it, although Alpha is as close as it gets. I challenge them to create it - to develop it.

                So until then your options are this, create the page you want your UX to sit in - copy the html to your a5w page - and to help you position fields you can create an absolute layout. This will require much patience and time but it is achievable...
                NWCOPRO: Nuisance Wildlife Control Software My Application: http://www.nwcopro.com "Without forgetting, we would have no memory at all...now what was I saying?"

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                  Re: Xara Web Designer and Alpha

                  Originally posted by CharlesParker View Post
                  Jetson, I wrote a lengthy response and I guess I just closed the window without posting...I have to agree to say that there is NO html website editor out there like xara or webplus that you can create a page with fields and some nifty layout and expect it to work with alpha like it was married to it. I know RIGHT where your coming from on this but unfortunately no-one at alpha does - or at least is making an effort to meld the two and in my opinion that would be the END ALL BE ALL turning point for ANY database driven RAD tool. A WYSIWYG dev tool - so far its not impossible but by all means it is near it, although Alpha is as close as it gets. I challenge them to create it - to develop it.

                  So until then your options are this, create the page you want your UX to sit in - copy the html to your a5w page - and to help you position fields you can create an absolute layout. This will require much patience and time but it is achievable...
                  Good news! I think Wordpress and Alpha Anywhere can also be combined. Which is even better than on Xara only. Hope there will be a video tutorial on this soon!

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                    Re: Xara Web Designer and Alpha

                    I have been hoping for sometime now, that Alpha would come out with modern looking themes or better support Bootstrap, etc. I know it appears that their roadmap has better support in the future...but we will have to see!

                    I developed this site: http://www.omea-ohio.org which uses iframes and lightbox modals to display alpha based UX components. It does a pretty good job, but the speed is not as good as a alpha only approach. The other downside is that security is not currently involved, although I will be adding that soon.

                    Any page in the navigation menu with the magnifying glass beside it is an alpha page. In addition there are numerous others that appear in the site using lightbox modals. Those will be buttons that have a magnifying glass on them. The lightbox real estate gets a bit tight on a phone but it does work. On iOS devices, there is an occasional shift on screen as the user interacts with drop downs. From what I can tell, this is caused by iOS shifting the choices out of the frame a bit......the issue does not happen on Android.

                    The majority of the alpha ux pages are in ADJUDICATED EVENTS menu area. Again, just look for the magnifying glass icon.

                    I used a Mac only product (Rapidweaver) to develop the site. It is fully responsive and the Alpha UX components do flow nicely using this approach.

                    Just food for thought about what can be done with iframes and such......not perfect by any stretch, but not a bad presentation (except for the speed issues on loading)

                    I would still prefer a native Alpha solution!
                    Last edited by gregincolumbus; 10-06-2015, 08:00 AM.

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                      Re: Xara Web Designer and Alpha

                      I developed this site: http://www.omea-ohio.org
                      the site looks very very good.
                      you should post this link in one of the thread - show your work or something similar to it.
                      very well done.
                      thanks for reading

                      gandhi

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                        Re: Xara Web Designer and Alpha

                        That 560k image file is not helping. See if something like these make a 1024 x 680.jpg2048 x 1360.jpgdifference. You may want to fix the Typo in the login NAMEID not NAfMEID experiment with more of the UX Image capabilities, that will help you. - Good effort mate, it's not easy.
                        Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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                        US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

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                          Re: Xara Web Designer and Alpha

                          You may want to fix the Typo in the login NAMEID not NAfMEID
                          i don't think it is an error.
                          it stands for
                          national association for music education id
                          the word is separated NAfME ID
                          thanks for reading

                          gandhi

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                            Re: Xara Web Designer and Alpha

                            Heres a tip as well on file size. The School banner is a larger file than the space it resides in. On the webpage its widest width is 1000px if you resize it and then compress it you can shrink the file size without losing much image quality (perceptually) from about 517kb to 33.5
                            https://www.nwcopro.com/Images/banner1_resized.jpg

                            You can grab it here for testing if you would like. The lettering is a bit fuzzed, but this was just to show the huge amount of savings and the method.
                            Last edited by CharlesParker; 10-06-2015, 10:01 AM.
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                              Re: Xara Web Designer and Alpha

                              Gandhi, thank you so much for the kind words. I appreciate them.

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