Xsite Pro

Are the sites in your signature done with Xsite Pro. If so, did you do the templates or start with one of the ready-made ones. Would love to do a shopping style site similar to your Jerseys one. Thanks, Kate

XsitePro 2 is fine with large sites and it has more design flexibility than the old version had. Saying that I can put a wordpress blog up very quickly so nowadays I tend to be lazy and use Wordpress as first choice.

You might want to take a look at your system(s) because I've been using XSitePro on a PC and laptop since 2006 and have never had either of my systems lock due to XSitePro.

Moreover, everyone that I communicate with in the IM business have had nothing but success with this amazing system. We even exchange templates with each other and again, no issues.

Again, this may be a system issue; it's defintely not a XSitePro issue. I've got authority sites, (well over 300 pages, not including about, contact, legal, etc.) and they are all built with XSitePro and maintained with XSitePro.

Honestly, I've never used any of the templates because it's easier to start from scratch, order a header and/or footer and make each site look the way you want it to look.

In addition, there are plenty of designers who can make a template for you that is easily imported into XSitePro.

I've already addressed the issue about the size of the sites built with XSitePro and there are a lot of XSitePro users who will confirm that you can build authority sites with XSitePro with ease.

As a matter of fact, that is what XSitePro is designed for and it works as promised!

They will also confirm, that they've never had any type of issues that InternetMarketingIQ stated.

Overall, XSitePro is a winner!

Giles, the Crew Chief

Hi Sandy,

Sure you can do this. On any page you want you can go to the Info tab and click "ignore page layout settings" so the page is stripped of any layout. If you want to get rid of JUST the header, copy and paste the source code from a page WITH layout settings intact and paste them into the page you want to delete the header from. Then delete the header.

If you want something totally different like a pre-made squeeze page, just paste the code from your squeeze page into the source code.

BTW - I also use wordpress and I use Trellian web page depending on what I want to do. Trellian and wp are both free and easy ways to learn to get stuff up. And in the end it's the content that will make most of the difference. You can buy "pretty" at bargain prices if that is what you need.

God bless,

Andy

I agree with Kevin especially his last paragraph. Once you have a little experience with XSP and a few templates stored you can, using Kevins word, crank out sites so fast, it's unbelievable.

Following on from Andy's comment, I also use XSP with a WP blog attached and find that it works very well.

I've built sites w/both versions and really like v2 better...which is a no brainer if you ask me.

As for the debate about XSP vs WP, they both have a learning curve in order to use each system to its fullest.

When talking about Wordpress, it's just not install and off to the races, as most would make you think. You still have to go out and install all the necessary 'plugins' to really get the major benefits wordpress has to offer in regards to SEO.

Now, while XSP gives you a complete SEO overview of your site once its been compiled, it doesn't offer all the "bells/whistles" when it comes to plugs...at least those regarding SEO. However, the 'design wizards' are pretty slick and w/a little 'out of the box thinking', could do wonders for your site.

Also, I think depending on which one you use will also depend on what you do for a business. If you're into offline consulting and part of that is web site creation, I'd go w/XSP. On the other hand, if you're into "Internet Marketing" and you're focusing on "reviews" and 'squeeze pages', I'd say go w/Wordpress.

As stated, if you get a good header/footer created, then using XSP can be as good, if not on par, with WP.

WP may get sites indexed a bit faster than a static site builder like XSitepro, but I have found it easier to keep sites ranked if they are static sites. (whether Xsitepro or Dreamweaver built or whatever. WP sites seem to take considerably more effort to remain ranked and I hate the constant updating WP requires to avoid hacking etc.
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Bruce

Just go into your cpanel and install WP. If you build a site at www[dot]yoursite[dot]com, you could create a directory and install the blog wherever you want. For example, you could use www[dot]yoursite[dot]com/blog or www[dot]yoursite[dot]com/news, or whatever you want.

XSP would still be used to build any pages of your site which aren't in the directory where WP is installed.

What Lance said...

What Lance said +

You want to ADD the Blog to XSitePro as an "External Page" plus add the blog to your XSitePro Sitemap

Next, you want to go to your blog and place a link in the footer that points to your XSitePro home page via your primary anchored Keyword phrase.

One other thing that I do is lightly pepper a few inner pages with anchored text links from the Blog to the XSitePro side and vice-a-versa.

Now the two sites are joined at the hip.

Duly note: I always set this up so that a surfer goes from the blog to the XSitePro side or vice-a-versa in the same window. AND, I use the same header, and footer on both sites.

Giles, the Crew Chief

I wouldn't touch that xsp to wordpress ebook with a 50 foot pole!

I bought it when it first came out and that exercise they put you through with the coding and all, is not worth the time of the effort - when you can connect the sites together through inner page linking and the sitemaps.

You get the same effect as if you bought the ebook, followed the instructions and got their rather complicated system to work.

Giles, the Crew Chief

I found it challenging to move Xsite Pro sites to a new server. Vowed to never use the software again.