[Additional Software for Web-Designers in DTP Style]

I would not think Affinity is going to create web-development apps anytime soon. If you want to do serious www-development you hire a professional, if you want to do simple www-sites you can use something like Freeway, Blocs, RapidWeaver, Sparkle etc. All these have their strengths and weaknesses.

[Slideshow With Music Option?]

Might be best to use third party apps for slideshows. Good ones are JustLooking (free) and FotoMagico (commercial).

[Affinity Publisher]

It would be nice to have discussion about Publisher features. I understand this app is not going to surface soon, but still would be nice to speculate and maybe have some input to development team.

 

Personally I think Abobe's InDesign is very very good (and been capable workhorse since version 2) and a worthy comparison for Publisher, but there may be some features that it is missing. For example I would like to have autostyling engine, which tags paragraph styles according user defineable rules. Like "If paragraph is shorter than 5 words and has no comma at the end set it -SUBHEAD-, then set next paragraph -PARA1-, then set next paragraphs -DEFAULT-" Or "When TWO ENTER set next paragraph -SUBHEAD-". Or "When paragraph starts with "Caption" set style to -CAPTION-".