Image Folder and Xsitepro

Xsitepro is a wonder program and if you are a newbie, you can get a website up quick. If you are an old pro, Xsitepro has many features that make it very attractive to use for making quick affiliate sites with easy maintainence.

Unfortunately because Xsitepro makes so many things simple, in the process, it prohibits the website designer from being able to do some more advanced things.

For instance, all the images are found in one folder. It is next to impossible to seperate your images if you don’t have a separate ftp program.

I picked up the following snippet of info from the Xsitepro forum:

At this time you can’t sub-divide the folders – only rename the folder – as standard. However, if the images shouldn’t really pose a problem all being in the same directory…

If you absolutlely have to do this, you could manually split your images (using an FTP client, and creating the sub-directories in your hosted web space) then change the properties of the moved images (by right-clicking on the image and selecting Image Properties) so that the file path points to the respective directory.

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FTP with Xsitepro

I found a great tutorial for xsitepro ftp and templates.

Configuring the uploading section of Xsitepro is probably the most difficult section of the software to get past for anyone who is fairly new to website editors that combine ftp function. There was a fellow on a forum who asked the following question:

I can’t upload the site through xsitepro’s function, for some reason it just won’t go through.

When I export the site, everything goes fine.

Now I’ve updated the site and uploaded all the exported files (through filezilla) and it’s not 100% as it’s presented in xsitepro.

First of all the header isn’t displaying properly(it shows a previously edited header) and the left panel menu only displays the new links when you click on any link below the “home” homepage.

The new menu links don’t display on the homepage itself, but instead pop up when you click on anything below the “home” start page.

It’s SO frustrating!

I ask myself”why can’t this just work and be simple”!

Does anyone know how to come around this problem or any possible solutions?

I love xsitepro, it’s by far the best design tool, well, easiest and quickest to use, but darn, these kind of formatting issues are so annoying, especially when it looks so good in XsitePro itself.

Since I use Xsitepro quite a bit I thought I’d try to give him some advise as follows:

Xsitepro is perfect for anyone getting started with building websites. Because of it’s simplicity it’s also great for more experienced webmasters that want to crank out some quick websites.

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