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If you deselect it to turn a step into a layer, this removes the step from the presentation,
even though its contents and any layer transition remain. The converted layer, however,
will not be displayed when a viewer navigates through a presentation using either the
arrow keyboard keys or a next/previous presentation step link.

Website Widgets

This chapter describes how to add dynamic content to your website, such as movies,
animations, forms and thousands of the available gadgets such as page counters and
currency converters. We refer to these using the general term of "website widgets", or
just "widgets" for short.

Widgets & placeholders – it’s all automatic!
In Xara Designer Pro X a widget is any object you can place on your web page that
displays some sort of dynamic content, that may also be interactive. That content may be
sourced from an external website (e.g., a news feed widget) or may be published with the
website. On the Designer Pro canvas, a widget is represented by a static ‘placeholder’
image that defines the position and dimensions of the widget on the page. And attached