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What makes Web Designer Premium so special?

Web Designer Premium is unique in that it's the only truly free-form web design tool, that
allows true freedom of web page design, with 'anything anywhere' yet produces
completely accurate WYSIWYG results. In other words you can position text, graphics,
photos anywhere on the page, any size, any angle, overlaid, with transparency...and
Web Designer Premium will produce a pixel accurate perfect working HTML page.
Web Designer Premium can do things that are regarded as near impossible with other
web-authoring software, such as repel text around irregular shapes and photos. It
includes advanced vector graphics tools to draw anything from simple shapes to complex
company logos and graphics. It includes automatic optimization of graphics (not only
producing optimized resolution images, but automatically detecting repeating elements
across the website so producing faster, more optimized websites).

It supports CSS layers with advanced features such as transparency, even graduated
transparency, mouse-over effects and more. It creates cross-browser, cross-platform
totally XHTML compatible HTML websites. And as browsers advance, Web Designer
advances too and exports your website so as to make best use of the capabilities of the
latest browsers, while also still working in older browsers that are still commonly in use.
For example modern devices with high resolution screens see high resolution images in
your site, while devices and browsers without such capabilities see download and show
only ordinary resolution image

See High resolution images (on page 352) for more info.

On top of all this Web Designer Premium is perhaps the easiest, simplest to learn web
authoring tool available.

Web Designer Premium is aimed at graphic designers who do not want to learn HTML or
scripting languages. For graphics designers it's the perfect 'rapid website prototyping'
tool.
It's also aimed at beginners who just want the easiest possible way of create professional
looking websites.
Web Designer Premium provides no programming tools, no script editing and doesn't
even provide an 'HTML view'. Our design philosophy is this: You do not need to know the
PDF programming language in order to produce PDF files. So neither should you have to
know anything about HTML or Javascript in order to create great websites.