Page 453 - Xara Designer Pro X17

Web Graphics and Websites 453

web document - then these items won't appear when you preview the webpage. If you do
want them to appear as part of the background then you should move them onto the
PASTEBOARD BACKGROUND layer.

The two stars are on the PasteBoard Layer and so appear as part of the webpage when
previewed in the browser window.

Note that once you have unlocked a background layer it behaves exactly like any other
open layer. So for example when right-clicking on an object on the unlocked background
layer you'll see the normal layer menu which relates to the objects on the layer, and not
the menu relating to the background layer itself, which is what you see when the layer is
in its default locked state.

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RWD Variants and Backgrounds
With a Responsive Web Design (on page 428) website, the main color or design of the
pasteboard background (the area around the page which determines the browser
window background when the page is published) can vary between one website variant
and another and each page and page variant is exported with its own pasteboard
rectangle.
The exceptions to this are vertical and horizontal Supersites (on page 489). Because
only one background can be displayed - only the pasteboard background from the first
variant of the first page is used.

You can place additional objects on the Pasteboard Background layer and these can
also vary between page variants. So for example you could have a shape overlapping
the page edge and this can be positioned differently in each variant, or be missing in
some variants.

Links, Buttons & Navigation Bars

You can add a web link to any object, a button, graphic or some text.