Any disadvantage in building a website with XSitePro today?

I think with anything, the question is, what doesn't it do. I don't use it but my concern would be, does it make mobile ready websites... i.e. responsive? If not then I would consider something else. As long as you don't make it too difficult you could have a wordpress site up in less than a day...

If it can create those mobile ready sites, make it easy for you to add in your lead magnets, no need to change. If it hasn't kept up with the times, then yes, time to switch to something new.

To be honest, if I started again today... Drupal would be what I use...

Thank you for asking this question, Andre - I've been wondering the same.I recently got an "going out of business" offer to pick up XSitePro and all major trainings and other material published by his company for $100 off, or $122. I actually placed an order, even though I already owned XSitePro - I did it because I wanted to own all the training modules, and it came with other stuff.

What I like about this thread is that it is on topic and people are actually answering the question, rather than raging about how Paul Smithson let them down. It appears that a lot of people just don't have a lot of understanding that potential terminal illness can make it really difficult to follow through on business and other commitments. From my experience, XSitePRo is a real quality product, and I just don't think that the person who put that together is the kind of flake that some people say that he is. How about some compassion, for crying out loud?

I created my first site with SitebuildIt! from Ken Evoy and that site is still going. I purchased XSitePro because I wanted to be able to create something quickly and test viability of a niche before paying $300 to create the same site in Sitebuildit! Let's face it, sometime we don't have the cash to do exactly what we want to do. I created a couple of sites in XSitePro a couple of years back, but I never did more than a couple of pages on each before I got sidetracked. So I never got to see what the program could do. I purchased one of their trainings which I had access to for one year, and it was very good, I learned a lot.

This summer I created a WP for my girlfriend in WordPress and it turned out very nice, at least she was very happy with it, and she's picky! Well, I have to just admit that for me WordPress was not the smooth learning experience that a lot of people say it is. I finally bought an inexpensive theme that I was able to customize to make a static web site, and that helped a lot. However, I think that even if I were to use the same theme to make another couple of sites, I'd be looking at a significant time investment.

I understand that some people say that WP is the way to go and that rather than learning to use a platform that potentially will be "outdated" soon, one might as well put the time in to learn the platform that's now pretty much industry standard. This is probably good advice.

However, please consider that there are many people like myself who just feel that that having to tinker around with learning WP in order to get a site going will distract them to the point that the site never gets done. I've had some great ideas for sites over the years, but got distracted....life just happens sometimes. Now I'm less focused on having the most "viable" platform than on just getting the damn project done. If I know I have a great niche with many good, low competition keywords...then I doubt that an XSitePro site would rank poorly with the search engines. Maybe it would ranked lower than a WP site and look a bit like a site from the nineties, but I bet it would get traffic. To me, this is why XSitePro is still a viable option, the ability to get a project up and running quickly and without to much fuzz.

The biggest issue with XSitePro in my opinion is that it might not be mobile responsive. This IS somewhat of a major drawback as about half of all SE traffic is mobile (I might not be entirely correct about that number). From what I've been able to find out from Google, there are still a lot of people around that use XSitePro and there are hacks for making sites created in the program mobile responsive. One might argue that this would take time to learn and that therefore a person is better off to learn WP, and that is something I'll have to find out.

Oh, and this is my first post in the Warrior Forum. There were a lot of people that I wanted to thank for their posts in this thread, but my "thank you!" button hasn't appeared yet!

I've built over 200 sites with XSitePro since it first came out - as well as many single pages for various projects.

I never used a ready made template - just built the sites using outsourced graphics and creating my own site designs which was quite simple with xsp. The load time was one thing I've appreciated. I don't think some people realize how slowly some of their blogs load. I'm sure it's plugins but some of them are ridiculously slow.

Hi All

We went from SiteBuilder to XSP which was a great move for us - much simpler for us non-techies.

We then moved from XSP to WP!!!

The biggest mistake we made was moving away from XSP to WP a few years ago.

At least XSP had simple and constant features and processes.

WP has Squillions of plugins that either work or don't and if they do work they annoy the daylights out of another plugin so that nothing works.

Then if all of the plugins are one happy family the theme then decides to reject them...arrgggg!!!

But now we are stuck in the WP Vortex and don't look like going back to XSP seeing that Paul has effectively left the building.

When its all cut and dried XSP will still allow you to build an Authority site and that's what the Big G is focusing on right now.


Regards


Bronwyn and Keith

I still like and use xSite Pro. I own Dreamweaver but prefer xSite Pro for building simple sites.

Unfortunately it appears the license server has been shut down. So if you upgrade to a new computer you can not move xSite Pro to the new computer. I just discovered this. Fortunately I have it on an older computer but I want it on my new faster computer.

It also appears that he is still selling xSite Pro. I don't see how this is possible with the license server shut down but am not going to invest money to find out.

He has not responded to my inquires about the license server. I wish he would either pay the fees to have it operational again or release a patch so we can use the software without the license. I have a lot of sites that I don't want to migrate to other system.

And yes, I've used Wordpress. I currently have around 100 Wordpress sites. But Wordpress is becoming too bloated for me. I prefer simple sites.