Xsitepro2 ROCKS for ___________

for simple to "low-medium" sites and sales pages. XSP is nice, but for anything more than a sales-page or a site with 5-7 sub-pages...well, you know, why not install a Wordpress blog?

Actually, since discovered WP i consider WP even easier and simpler than XSP...however for a single-page squeeze page WP would be a little overkill.

XSitePro is NOT essential. It's actually far from essential. I wouldn't waste your money.

There is a free one called NVU that is just as powerful as xSitePro. The only reason X is really around is because it has an affiliate program.

Before I used XSP I used... oh I don't remember what
it was but it wasn't a WYSIWYG editor... so I learned
some stuff about hand-coding - which with XSP you will
need to know in fact because it produces messy HTML
sometimes where you have to comb through it to track
down the troublemakers.

XSP is what I am used to now. It simplifies project management
and the templates are ok. It can do a lot but the basic learning
curve isn't too steep. It does pop-ins, site maps, siloing, global
scripts, all sorts of things like that without much fuss. If you were
already an expert you might roll your eyes but if you want to learn
and grow - but get money-making sites up there while you do - then
XSP will work well for you... and all your sites can be right there
on your desktop for you to edit.

well for starters its good, thats how i started. Eventually you will grow out.

Xsitepro 2 is a good program for beginners and at the price is worth its money.

far cheaper than Dreamweaver and much easier to learn

I've used quite a lot of web design tools - I've been a professional programmer for over 10 years now, and use the tools as part of my job. My new fav is Microsoft's Visual Web Developer, which is free (Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition), but I am a big fan of XSP2. As a previous poster mentioned, its great for stuff like global scripting and sitemaps. It also has a good feature for cloaking affiliate links. Its great for organising your websites, and you can get some great looking templates. Even the free templates XSP2 ships with can give your site a professional look, no matter how bad you are at website design...

XSP2 is really easy to use, there is much less of a learning curve than there would be with the likes of Front Page or Dreamweaver. If you are looking to build/manage a few websites, I would definitely buy it..
I bought XSP1 a few years ago, and upgraded to XSP2 when it was released. Have no regrets. You will probably get posts from people saying "free web tool X" is better, but to be honest if you want to get some sites up quickly with minimal learning curve then XSP is your tool.

I like it, and it is easier to make changes to a site when the site is 100+ pages than having to manually change them using a html editor.

It is simple to use, it's true the code isn't clean but you can change that easily. One of my sites the only problem with the code was the amazon store in it.

The new version is great, and I would recommend it to anyone without giving them my affiliate link.

Yep, I'm an XSite Pro junkie too. It's perfectly designed for SEO, easy page creation and management and overall marketing advantages with various scripts and tools built in.

I'd say that X is perfect for landing pages/squeeze pages, and mini sites. In fact, even better for sites that are going into the hundreds as changes to the entire look of the site can be made in one foul swoop.

I agree that Dreamweaver IS a better program and has much better design flex, but it depends on your budget and your willingness to learn the myriad of aspects of it.

Go buy X, you'll love it.

(I just sold a 115 page fitness site that was built entirely around Xsite Pro for $500, so that's proof that it can create worthwhile content based, SEO friendly sites that look great).

I used XSitepro to build websites (hundreds of them) that have sold millions of dollars of products for retailers, service professionals and even sales for my own products and services occasionally

I could not have done it with NVU because NVU does not have the same functions and I wanted to focus on SEO and marketing rather than becoming a techno geek.

XSitePro sets up your site map, CSS files, 'navigation panes' and interlinks everything.

You can easily generate .mobi sites to reach the next wave of web users. It has RSS , XML, video and audio players built in.

FTP is built in and also the pages are so easy to edit.

I know many people who have been able to reach out into e-commerce markets by using this software quickly and easily.

It is fine for sales pages, landing pages, adsense sites, affiliate sites, service professionals, retailers, manufacturers etc.... the list goes on.

You can silo, time delay post, change skins, export, import, update easily and more.

It is easy to maintain HTML sites without databses and no need for upgrades or virus attacks.

Great software.

Hi

I just bought XP2 as well, I was using XP1 but will update all my sites now with the new version...

Thx
Tom

It's what I have been using. I like it. It really makes things pretty darn easy. Especially if you are not a super techie. I have only used it to create sales pages.

I have used both xsite pro and wordpress. Find myself always going back to wordpress.

Starting all over I would just stick with wordpress. With all the new and free plugins
available and always updated, you can't beat that. Your not waiting for xsite to do
a upgrade.

And wordpress is free use that money to start your biz.