Embed Video into XSitePro Web Pages
August 8, 2011 by Scott
Filed under Xsitepro Video
Suggestions for Making Use of Xsitepro
Xsitepro has on the market for a while now. Version 1 was the first version and after many upgrades and much success the folks at Xsitepro finally created a totally new version….Version 2. Xsitepro Version 2 is praised by all its users and contains almost all the features requested by the users of Version 1.
Xsitepro simplified the process of building a website and getting it on the internet…..just about anyone, including your Granny could build a website now! Programs such as Dreamweaver, Frontpage, NVU to name a few were very good website editors but can’t compare to the simplicity of Xsitepro. Many newbies owe their web presence to Xsitepro.
As Xsitepro developed and it’s use has been simplifed by other users there have been a pile of 3rd party applications, courses and ebooks to help explain and make the use of Xsitepro even easier. Every week I search around for a good Youtube video that will further explain how to use at least one aspect of Xsitepro, most are really helpful. I hope you find them useful.
Learn some of the advanced techniques of Xsitepro by using….This is more than Video Marketing, Traffic Geyser is a new paradigm in Interent Marketing and driving traffic to your sites….traffic means more money….. If you want traffic….that is lasting traffic they check out Traffic Geyser…today!
How to infulse / embed video into XSitePro web pages.
Will You Get Excited About XSitePro?
The answer to that question is maybe! When I bought XSitePro at the beginning of May I had gone through a very frustrating few weeks trying to design several websites. Even more frustrating because I was designing sites for customers and myself 5 years ago but dropped out because of other commitments.
I decided to start up another Internet business earlier this year and could not wait to get my own site up and running again. That was when my frustrations started. OK the sites that I designed before were not exactly top of the notch professional; they were sort of like the Grandma Moses of the Internet. But, they were attractive, easy to navigate, well visited and different!
Using my old html editor FrontPage I expected to have a site up and running quickly but found that I had forgotten most of what I had known about using FrontPage for building sites. What I did remember was that initially I struggled to build a site even after learning html because I don?t understand ?easy to understand instructions?. This time round I was having the same old problem.
I persevered and was getting somewhere but then I decided to buy the latest Macromedia package and have a bash with Dreamweaver. Doh! it might be wonderful but I did not have a clue where to start even after reading the instructions. I turned back to FrontPage with a mental note to myself to try again when I had more time.
A friend told me about XSitePro and I was curious enough to take a look at their site. It wasn?t long before I regretted splashing out on the Macromedia package, but I could not justify another spend so I regretfully left the site armed with a free affiliate link.
During the next week I kept going back and drooling over what might have been. The $197 asking price grew smaller with every visit until click ?I finally reasoned that I had earned as much as that in overtime in my day job the previous week and if I could design sites more quickly and easily it would pay for itself.
After downloading XSitePro I was keen to get started. I worked my way through the tutorial which has you building an opticians site and was totally pleased and relieved to find that I understood the tutorial and that my practice optician site was as it should be.
Next I decided to design my own site and took a look at the website and sales letter templates provided. A good selection but I must admit to thinking that although eminently usable they were a bit boring to me. I have found since that there are several sites offering some stunning XSitePro templates for sale at very reasonable prices.
I made up my own design for my first XSitePro effort and managed to express my old cheerful style quite easily and much quicker than I would have done with FrontPage or Dreamweaver. As with both of those site builders XSitePro is a What You See Is What You Get editor and as with both of them I find that you do need basic html knowledge to build effective sites. Courses are freely available on the Internet.
Time Saving Differences
I could not believe how quickly I was able to add Google AdSense ads to my pages. All I had to do was initially add my AdSense id to the software and then after that right click wherever I wanted the ads placing. I was given a choice of ad sizes and colours to enable the ads to integrate with my site and there they were. Much better than trawling through the AdSense site every time I wanted to place ads.
Another timesaver is the Affiliate Wizard, you add your affiliate links and thereafter a couple of clicks and your links are on your web pages.
Optimisation for the search engines is excellent for an impatient bod like me. Every time I add an image I?m reminded to include an image alt keyword. When a page is finished I click on the SEO page and I?m told what I still need to do to improve optimisation. I might have missed an image alt keyword, or I might not have included the main key word enough in the text, or not enough words in the body. A few minutes and the page is fully optimised and a chore that I never completely understand before is done.
If I want to change the look of my site it?s easily and quickly done on every page at once and I don?t have to figure out style sheets. I can create pop ups, pop unders and pop ins with a few clicks, add redirect pages, add scripts and lots more useful things.
The Verdict
I love working with XsitePro and am really glad that I gave into temptation and bought it. I find it easier and quicker to work with than any other html editor that I have used and am always pleased with the results. I am sure that it will have some limitations but I have not found any yet.
The only downside is the not so hot templates, but everything else makes up for that in spades. I do not get excited about XsitePro but I am delighted with my investment.
Patricia Jones owns her own free article directory at www.bb-articles.com
XSitePro 2 Review – is XSitePro Still Easy Website design?
Having used XSitePro quite happily for a year I was in two minds whether or not to pay for the May 2008 upgrade to version 2. The aspects that I liked about this website design software were the ease of use, speed and the quick analysis of my website pages for optimisation.
The downside has always been not very good templates and a recognisable same as look for many XSitePro sites. Despite that I found the software quicker and easier to use than Dreamweaver or Frontpage.
Temptation got the better of me and soon after the upgrade was mine I was redesigning one of my older websites. As some far more professional looking templates had been added I used one of those for practice after completing the website building tutorial.
Next I imported another of my sites but added my own banner and used one of the 30 navigational menu designs provided and changed it to my own colour selection to blend with the banner. I then started to build a music site using one of their templates and am now building a travel site from scratch with my own design.
I?m really pleased with all of the websites; to my eyes they look good and even my own designs look more professional than they would if I used Dreamweaver or FrontPage. The XSitePro sameness is a thing of the past. For someone like myself who has the aspirations but not the ability of a professional website designer and wants to design their own sites XSitePro 2 is a great tool.
There are several new features that I am enjoying experimenting with. 30 different navigational menus with colour selection I have already mentioned, but you can now easily place your choice of menu at the left, right or bottom of the page or as an info bar at the top. Your navigational menus can be added to more than one place and easily altered if you want to change the design.
New pages can be added easily and you are prompted to start optimising them for the search engines straight away. Article pages are new, there are 11 different styles that you can further customise or you can use a blank page. You can choose when the content is published, for instance you can set up an advertising campaign to automatically come online on a pre set date.
A new feature that I’m finding useful for the travel site that I’m building is that you can have a different right hand margin for every page. As each page has a different destination I am using that feature for my hotel affiliate links for those particular destinations.
Adding Google ads is still easily done but now you can add Amazon ads in the same way and customise the ads to integrate with your website. You can store your publisher ids and channels, so once they are stored a couple of clicks and your site is monetised. You can also store your affiliate links and you don’t have to visit Paypal to set up payment schemes. These features save a lot of time from having to search while adding your advertising.
I’m quite taken by the Mobile Site Wizard. In a couple of minutes I created versions of my sites that are automatically optimised for viewing on mobile phones or Internet able PDAs. I wouldn’t have thought of doing that but now my websites are available for viewing to a wider audience.
There are tons of graphics that you can use and it’s easy to upload your own graphics. A form wizard with different form designs that you can use to capture email addresses is new, also a banner rotator – and one of my favourites an image gallery creator. There is now a selection of social bookmarking icons that are easy to add to the pages and an RSS feed creator that can be used on the pages that you want syndicating.
You can now choose to add 3 different site maps and use siloing to help with the search engines. Redirects, customisable search boxes and pop ups are quick to add and I nearly forgot ? you can have streaming audio and videos on your web pages.
There are so many new and improved features with XSitePro version 2 that it’s impossible to mention them all here. So I’m going to finish with my absolute favourite the Links Page Wizard. In the old version your links page was just a list of sites and descriptions, now you can do a lot more. You can customise the links pages to blend in with your site design, add your own text or ads to the pages and best of all split into categories and include a longer description and screenshot.
The screenshots get my vote – apart from it being more appealing to other webmasters to exchange links with you; every time those web pages are updated you get fresh content to help keep the search engines happy. Although this is my favourite feature it also holds the only downside that I’ve found so far. I wanted to add the XSitePro company website to my links pages but the software has problems with the screenshot for their site and it won’t view duh!
Is XSitePro Version 2 Worth The Asking Price?
For somebody who only wants one or two websites then I would say no. There are plenty of website designers including XSitePro users advertising on the Internet. Or there are lots of ready made free or paid for templates or free site building resources available on the Internet.
I believe that it is absolutely worth the full asking price if like myself you want to build multiple big websites with constant content updates, sales pages or smaller sites. Or if like me you wake up one morning and think that your site looks as messy as your hair and you want to change the design throughout as quick as it takes to get your hair restyled. It’s also easy to change your site design back when you realise that you should have woken up properly first with a cup of coffee!
I am having a lot of fun with XSitePro 2 and am finding using it refreshing after spending several months struggling to learn how to use the rather more expensive Memberspeed membership site software. It may not be fair to compare them as they have different functions, but although excellent in it’s own way I find Memberspeed hard to use and very time consuming and frustrating in comparison. Maybe that will be the next review.
What Upgrades Would I Like to See in the Future?
Although I got far more than I expected with the upgrade and am having a lot of fun using the software it does no harm to have a wish list. I think what would be the most useful is more interactivity with site visitors, perhaps the option of visitors being able to add comments. A shopping cart and a way to add members built into the software ? you never know what they might surprise us with next!
Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com
Patricia has been writing articles and reviews and building websites for several years. Check out more of her work at the Creative Writer and Make Money From Writing websites. Or visit the UK Travel guide
FrontPage Is Dead – What About XSitePro fessional.com?
May 18, 2009 by Scott
Filed under Xsitepro Video
Suggestions for Making Use of Xsitepro
Xsitepro has on the market for a while now. Version 1 was the first version and after many upgrades and much success the folks at Xsitepro finally created a totally new version….Version 2. Xsitepro Version 2 is praised by all its users and contains almost all the features requested by the users of Version 1.
Xsitepro simplified the process of building a website and getting it on the internet…..just about anyone, including your Granny could build a website now! Programs such as Dreamweaver, Frontpage, NVU to name a few were very good website editors but can’t compare to the simplicity of Xsitepro. Many newbies owe their web presence to Xsitepro.
As Xsitepro developed and it’s use has been simplifed by other users there have been a pile of 3rd party applications, courses and ebooks to help explain and make the use of Xsitepro even easier. Every week I search around for a good Youtube video that will further explain how to use at least one aspect of Xsitepro, most are really helpful. I hope you find them useful.
Learn some of the advanced techniques of Xsitepro by using….This is more than Video Marketing, Traffic Geyser is a new paradigm in Interent Marketing and driving traffic to your sites….traffic means more money….. If you want traffic….that is lasting traffic they check out Traffic Geyser…today!
Paul Colligan chats about the death of FrontPage and rise of XSiteProfessional (www.xsiteprofessional.com). Recorded live @ uStream.Tv
Overview of The XsitePro Manual
April 25, 2009 by Scott
Filed under Xsitepro Video
Methods of Working with Xsitepro
You’ve probably seen or heard of Xsitepro if you’ve been online during the last 4 years. Xsitepro Version 1 has evolved into Xsitepro Version 2. With the advent of Version 2, Xsitepro has crossed the hurdle from being an ordinary run of the mill website building application to a stellar application with many advanced features…..yet still is newbie friendly.
Xsitepro’s claim to fame was that it provided a way for newbies or those just entering the fine art of website building to get a website created and uploaded to the world wide web. Programs such as Dreamweaver, Frontpage, NVU to name a few were very good website editors but can’t compare to the simplicity of Xsitepro. Just do a google search on Xsitepro and you’ll find 1000′s of users that have websites and owe their internet websites to Xsitepro.
As with any successful software application that has become successful, there are a ton of videos around that help you use the program….also you’ll find some great ebooks and courses that really get into the details and advanced uses of the program. Some of the videos you’ll find in this category will help you to navigate your way through the use of Xsitepro. I hope you find them useful.
Build better websites by reading this…..Traffic Geyser You won’t believe what these guys have done.
www.gibson5.co.uk An overview of the contents and quality of the XsitePro instruction manual
Convert XSitePro Layouts to Ebay Auction Listing Templates
April 10, 2009 by Scott
Filed under Xsitepro Video
Different Ways of Converting Layouts for Xsitepro
Xsiteprohas been around for at least 3 years or so. It all started with Version 1, which was a smashing success and lead to a totally new application in Xsitepro Version 2. The new version is awesome, allowing many of the custom features older users of version 1 requested.
Xsitepro’s claim to fame was that it provided a way for newbies or those just entering the fine art of website building to get a website created and uploaded to the world wide web. You’ll find Xsitepro Version 2 stands up to programs like Dreamweaver, Frontpage and NVU, however, these other programs don’t compare to the ease of use you find in Xsitepro. Just do a google search on Xsitepro and you’ll find 1000′s of users that have websites and owe their internet websites to Xsitepro.
Since Xsitepro has become successful, there are a ton of great resources available to help you use the program more efficiently….you actually can create some awesome websites with some of the secrets these books and courses reveal. Every week I search around for a good Youtube video that will further explain how to use at least one aspect of Xsitepro, most are really helpful.Take a look at this video, see if you can learn one Xsitepro trick.
For further help, check out this Xsitepro resource….Professional Xsitepro Websites Discover how to effectively use Xsitepro!
How to convert your XSite Pro Layouts to Ebay Auction Listings and still have the formating and pictures show up properly.
XsitePro Template Creation Part 2
April 7, 2009 by Scott
Filed under Xsitepro Video
Tools for Xsitepro Template Creation
Xsitepro has on the market for a while now. Xsitepro Version 1 has evolved into Xsitepro Version 2. With the advent of Version 2, Xsitepro has crossed the hurdle from being an ordinary run of the mill website building application to a stellar application with many advanced features…..yet still is newbie friendly.
Xsitepro simplified the process of building a website and getting it on the internet…..just about anyone, including your Granny could build a website now! Programs such as Dreamweaver, Frontpage, NVU to name a few were very good website editors but can’t compare to the simplicity of Xsitepro. Many newbies owe their web presence to Xsitepro.
Since Xsitepro has become successful, there are a ton of great resources available to help you use the program more efficiently….you actually can create some awesome websites with some of the secrets these books and courses reveal. Every week I search around for a good Youtube video that will further explain how to use at least one aspect of Xsitepro, most are really helpful.Take a look at this video, see if you can learn one Xsitepro trick.
Xsitepro Template Tutorials will have you building your own templates in an hour or less!
Learn some of the advanced techniques of Xsitepro by using….XsiteprotoWordpress Create a WordPress Blog that looks exactly like your Xsitepro Website
Video 2 of the series of tutorials from http://www.gibson5.co.uk/xsitepro/
