
The following pages show examples of just some of the more
than 140+ unique graphic template designs supplied
with Xara Menu Maker, many with further variations.
Remember that when using Menu Maker, you can make graphics
any color and any size you like, and can change the
font, color and text of any of the objects.
Navigation bars can have up to three states of rollovers
- MouseOver, MouseOff and Selected. You
can add DHTML menus to them as well. When you make a NavBar
& Menu in Menu Maker, the program will export all the
necessary HTML and JavaScript for you too.
Click on these images to see larger versions with rollover
effects.
There are plenty of bitmap collections available,
but the essential difference is that Menu Maker is a vector
package, which means that all of the graphics can be edited
without loss of quality. There's really no competition.
You can, of course, rescale a bitmap. But it will become highly
pixelated...and you cannot change the color and wording at
all. You're stuck with what you get.
Menu Maker gives you total control over the appearance of
the graphic so that you can create an almost infinite collection
of different graphics from the base of high quality, professionally
designed templates. You can change the graphic, text, and
background color, and the colors of various elements of each
graphic. You can also change the text, font size, type, change
the size of the graphic, anti-alias to a particular background
color, automatically create a navigation bar with JavaScript
rollover commands (all of the code is automatically generated
for you)...and control the appearance of each button state
in the bar (as well as setting URL addresses).
Xara Menu Maker is also extensible. Periodically,
we will be producing extra template packs for use with
Menu Maker. These packs can be downloaded from our website
(www.xara.com) and will install into the Menu Maker directory,
adding even more graphics templates to the program. Again,
all of these templates will be in vector format as well, allowing
you to personalize them to fit your graphics needs.
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