You can edit the Placeholder code to change this. Steve Ledger astutely observes that the MP4 will loop endlessly (though this may change in the final release version). You can resize the player to any size you want and the MP4 video will automatically resize on play. If you add a photo behind the player image, it will be published with the page. So when you publish the page, all you see is the Play arrow and the controls.

The MP4 player (shown above) drops onto the page without a preview image when you drag and drop the MP4 file onto the page. The details have yet to be worked out however. Xara/Magix is also providing a free Web Hosting account. This dialog alone is worth the price of an upgrade. So if you simply corrected a typo or replaced one photo, that’s all that will be uploaded to your web server. And last but not least, you can publish only the current changes. You have the option to save the FTP password with the document. FTP publishing information for each document you create can be saved for and with that document only! You can create individual publishing profiles that you can select from the Profile drop down list. Not only can you preview the changes on one page, or the entire site, but you can also update changes to your site without having to republish the entire site. FTP Publishing Publishing your site has never been easier. Just check in from time to time to see what’s been added recently. The Designs Gallery automatically updates. Shown above are the available color schemes. Can you change the colors from green to orange? No problem. Drag any of these color schemes onto the page and all the colors in the template automatically change to reflect the new color scheme. Also included are about a half dozen Color Schemes. No sense of color? In the Designs Gallery > Templates folder are several web templates. People are visiting your site for content. Life is not a contest to see how many buttons, gadgets, forms, and other extraneous objects you can add to your site. And of course the Designs Gallery contains a whole library of website templates for a wide variety of sites and a bunch of other things to help the non-designer build an attractive and functional website. If you are selling stuff on your site there are widgets for PayPal and Google Checkout. These include simple forms and a few form builders that let you create more complex forms. © Gary Priester 2010 Widgets Gallery Did somebody say Widgets? There are 5 galleries of Widgets in the Designs Gallery.

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