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440 Website Widgets

As with the other file types above, a placeholder image showing the player is generated
and placed on your page and the MP3 file and all other files needed to make the player
work are copied to the support folder of your document and will be included in your
exported website. Preview page to see the player in action.

The player is simple and unobtrusive. You can start and stop the audio, click on the time
line to jump to different parts of the audio, adjust the volume (click on the volume
indicator line) and mute (click the speaker icon).

Technical note: The player uses the native HTML 5 capabilities of the web browser to
play the audio, if the browser supports it and if it also supports the MP3 format. This
means the player will work in all major browser versions (older browsers don’t support
HTML 5).

Animated GIFs
Import or drag and drop the GIF file onto your page. It gets copied to your design’s
support folder and a static placeholder image is generated for it. Resize and position the
placeholder, then preview your page and you’re done!

PDF Files
You can import PDF files into a web document in two different ways. Either import it so
that the contents of the file are copied onto your page (as when importing a photo). Or
you can link to a copy of the file in your website and have the file published with your site.
When importing a PDF file a prompt is shown to let you choose between these two
options.
When adding a link, the PDF file is copied into the support folder of your design, so it’s
exported and published with the rest of your site. And a link is added which looks like this
on the page:

Clicking the link on your exported page normally opens the PDF file, but the exact
behavior varies depending on the user’s browser settings.

Widgets from other widget sites

There are hundreds or thousands of sites offering widgets of some form or another and
the ONLINE CONTENT CATALOG offers only a tiny subset of what is available on the web.
Just about all widgets are provided to you in the form of a small piece of HTML code. The
widget provider will normally give you some simple instructions on how to insert the code
into your web page, but with Xara Web Designer Premium it really is very simple.