Xara Web Designer Premium 365 is a template-based design tool which makes it quick and easy to create quality websites.

The program comes with a host of professionally-produced multipage responsive web designs (only a few are editable in the trial, though). These can immediately be enhanced with your preferred buttons, headings, navigation bars, photos, icons, movies, MP3s, PDFs and more. Just drag and drop an item onto your page and customise it to suit your needs.

If you'd like to add some interactivity to your site, you'll appreciate the program's widgets. These can embed YouTube videos on your pages, Google Maps, Facebook Like and Twitter buttons, media players, contact forms, news feeds and more.

All of this can be further tweaked or rearranged as necessary. You can even build a site from scratch if the bundled templates don't appeal. And once you've finished, the program will put the site online for you, either at your own web host or using the 2GB of free (for one year) web space included with the package.

As this is the "Premium" edition, there are many extras. These include tools to create presentations, animations (Flash and GIF) and single page "SuperSites". You get "sticky" objects (like a navigation bar which stays at the top of the page as users scroll), extra animations, advanced widgets (ecommerce, charts, photo sliders), and a pile of extra drawing and graphics tools.

What's new?

Web Designer 365 extends the program with parallax scrolling, 30 additional scroll animations, 40 extra "on reveal" animations, powerful new SmartShape types (charts, photo grids), and the addition of Google's Material Design icons, a collection of more than 1500 professionally-designed vector graphics.