And since sometimes the photo’s original filename is useful there is now an additional Use photo filename button that will instantly fill that name field for you with the selected photo’s original filename (if it has one). The Utilities > Web Properties > Image tab lets you set any name for the selected photo and that name will then be used for the photo’s filename. Therefore users can control what names are used for image files in the published website or web document. Also of course most photos from digital cameras have meaningless names anyway. That’s because it’s not always helpful to expose those names in your public website - some filenames may be inappropriate and others may having nothing at all to do with subject of the site and so could be worse for SEO rather than better. Use Photo Filename Many customers have asked why the photos in their published website don’t use the original filenames of the photos that they imported, so that Search Engines can find and index those names. Now self- hosting fonts can improve page speed and Web Vitals score, with all the SEO and page rank benefits that implies. But with modern browsers, that is changing.

In the past, it was considered better to link to Google Fonts and not self-host fonts because of browser limitations. Xara’s automatic self-hosting makes an otherwise complex workflow simple, but there could be performance and SEO benefits too.

All you need to do is republish your website. Xara has reacted quickly with this new release of Designer Pro+, which offers instant compliance by automatically publishing any Google Fonts to your web space, and no longer referencing Google. However a recent court decision in Germany has cast doubt on whether calling fonts from Google is compatible with GDPR (because it passes the IP address to Google). Version 19.0 Web Improvements Self-hosting of Google Fonts Google Fonts are immensely popular with web designers, providing a huge library of quality fonts with good cross browser support, which is why we provide seamless support in Xara Designer Pro.

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