XSitePro 2 Preview
11 06 2008
XSitePro V.1 Brought Power to the Masses
XSitePro provided an impressive depth of options. You could customize your site’s design, colors, and a variety of other parameters were easy to set through the interface. Once you were done you could “publish” the site with the built-in ftp client. All in all it was a great tool for producing quality
New Design
In a webinar put on by an excellent presenter named Richard Butterworth we were allowed an exclusive glimpse into the power of XSitePro 2. There have been enough changes and additions to make this warrant a brand new title. The wait was definitely worth it! I’ll summarize a few of the new features that will be available:
Interface
The new interface is professional and updated. All the information is presented in a clean consistent manner, and yet the look and feel is reminiscent of the older version enough to ease the transition to the new product. We were told this was an important consideration.
Templates
The templates provided with XSitePro were rather simple in hindsight. XSitePro 2 takes a new approach and provides hundreds of professional, dynamic and CSS-capable template designs for you to choose from. These aren’t your typical “free” templates either, but good-looking designs you’d actually want to use to make your sites.
A few new areas were added to the templates to allow even more customization.
Other Features
In an effort to keep this readable I’ll try and summarize some of the new features:
Forms Wizard

One of the neater new features is the new forms widget. It ties in directly with mailing list management systems like AWeber and List Mail Pro to handle automatic updates to your list. This feature could alone pay for the product!
Quick Page
Often situations where you want to use the same page across multiple sites. XSitePro 2 allows you to create “Page Templates” you can use to quickly create reoccurring content. Templates are provided for article pages, contact us, press release, privacy statement, and product information. All of these templates allow for customization and style changes.
Right-click Menu

The Power Center of XSitePro 2, as Richard Butterworth calls it. It’s true, the right-click menu in XSitePro always provided an easy and quick way to customize a page. Now there’s a tremendous amount of power added:
- RSS Feed Wizard - Add an RSS feed as content, select a feed, customize style, insert into page
- Insert streaming audio - Adds playback controls
- Insert video - converts to web format
- Widgets - Banner rotators, image gallery, popups, faqs. Print page, image rollovers, email cloaker
- Site Search - requires PHP, exclude pages from search
- Forms Wizard - Works with XMailPro, AWeber, Get Response, List Mail Pro, or standard email.
- Advertising - Amazon, Google, PayPal
- PayPal Advertising - Allows selling of digital products
- Social Network Link
PayPal Button Wizard
To me one of the most powerful features is the ability to create a button that allows you to sell digital product downloads. As an author web ebooks and other sellable digital content this really caught my eye. It allows you to add a button to your site that will direct a customer to PayPal for payment, and then back to your download page on a successful transaction. All done in less than 30 seconds! It is a powerful feature that no other web site design product has. I’ll buy it for this feature if nothing else.
Scheduled Page Publishing
You can now schedule pages to be published at a specific date to “trickle” content to your web site. This is an incredibly powerful capability many have been asking for for years. ince Google likes to see constant updates to sites, this feature allows you to naturally grow you web site over time. Just what the doctor ordered!
The “Other” Page

The infamous “Other Page” where XSitePro Addons were available in the original version has been updated for version 2. Richard barely touched on the list of features because of a limitation in time. Some of the highlights include:
- Mobile Site Generation - Make a whole new version of your site optimized for mobile devices.
- Siloing - Create a virtual or physical interlinked site structure
- Links Page - Auto loads data from web page
- XML Syndication - Create an RSS feed
With annual sales of 1 billion units, and 25% of those users browsing the web, mobile accessible versions of your content can mean big money! You can create a mobile site (that’s automatically updated) in minutes!
Siloing is also a popular method of content organization that can be quite successful. XSitePro 2 now has it!
Page Analysis

The Page Analysis tab replaces the old SEO Page from the original XSitePro. There are ton of features available, with a variety of ways to see how your pages stack up. I’ve seen separate SEO packages that don’t have the same level of functionality!
Purchase Today and Get the Jump on Your Competition
There’s so much more to the update that hasn’t been covered here because of lack of space. Let’s just say that the time between XSitePro version 1 and version 2 has been put to good use. It’s definitely a value at the retail price of $297. I don’t typically think many Internet marketing products are ever worth their 3-figure price tag. In this case I was thinking of an even higher number during the course of the webinar. A considerable value for those who want to create custom, professional web sites quickly!
Upgrades from version 1 are available for $127, which I think is an awesome thank you to their current customers. An even bigger deal is that for the first 30-days after the launch on May 20th they are lowering the upgrade price by $30 to just $97! It should be a no-brainer to anyone who owns the original version of the product.
I’m sure that many; if not most Internet marketers will find this version an essential tool in their arsenal. I recommend you buy now, or upgrade immediately to lock in the low rate. Remember, your competition is probably thinking the same thing.
Purchase XSitePro 2 Today!
What makes XSitePro2 stand out from its competitors is the fact that you can create a fully-functioning interactive, and search-engine friendly website WITHOUT needing to know HTML at all! Its “point-and-click” ease of use is amazing - if you know how to use a word processor like Microsoft Word, you’ll be fine with XSitePro2!
Another strong feature of XSitePro2 is its beautiful set of 200 web templates that cover a wide range of web businesses. This is a marked improvement over XSitePro version 1.
What’s really cool in version 2 is it’s auto-posting feature, where XSitePro2 will publish articles to your website on a time release basis - just like an autoresponder. You just need to tell XSitePro where your files on your hard-drive are, set a posting schedule and let XSitePro do the rest!
And probably the most valuable feature in XSitePro2 is its content syndication capabilities. XSitePro2 boasts, “1000 sources to start you off (and you can learn about millions more at our support forum). In finance, for example, choose from The Financial Times, BBC News, MSNBC, ABC, The New York Times, or hundreds more.”
The full feature list for XSitePro2 is really too numerous to list in detail. Here are some of my favorite XSitePro2 features:
Create unlimited websites
There’s no limit to how many site you can create, maintain and organize using the power of XSitePro
Hundreds of *NEW* website templates
A brand-new selection of quality website templates, professionally designed to help you create great-looking sites, fast. This means that your websites appearance will rival those created by the finest graphic designers!
Automated Navigation Menu Controls
Makes your site navigation a breeze to set up, complete with sub-pages and category headings. Page interlinking is handled automatically to ensure ease-of-navigation as well as improve search engine rankings. What this means for you is that you can effortlessly create websites with state-of-the-art navigation … no matter how big the site grows, it’s easy to find anything on the site!
Advanced Page Settings: Scheduling
Create content in advance and have pages publish only during a specified date range. Use in conjunction with the Taskbar Scheduler to time-release your content to the Web!
Updated Right-Click Designer Menu
The power-house feature in the Designer window - this tool now contains links to a huge array of powerful page content features. Menu Options now include Headings Design Wizard, Sub-Headings Design Wizard, Boxes and Frames Design Wizard, B ullets Design Wizard, Graphics Design Wizard, Buttons Design Wizard, Highlighted text, Snippets, Image Library, AdSense Advertising, Amazon Advertising, Oxado Advertising, PayPal Advertising, Audio Wizard, Video Wizard, Widget Wizard, RSS Feed Wizard, XML Syndication Links, Social Networking Links, Forms Wizard, Site Search Form Tool, Page Breaks Tool, Link Insertion Tools, and more…
Improved Designer WYSIWYG interface
Now featuring additional tools and functionality to deliver the best possible quality of page content with minimal fuss and complication. Designer window now set to Main Panel Width and featuring additional menu buttons including Design Wizards, Snippets, Advertising, Audio, Video, Widget Wizard, RSS, XML, Social Networking, Forms, Search, and Page Breaks
SEO Analysis of your pages
Automatically analyses your web-pages for you and suggests a whole range of improvements necessary to improve your search engine positioning. A great way to ensure your site gets seen in the search engine rankings. Completely redesigned in version 2 as part of the new “Page Analysis” tab.
Follow the simple instructions given in the SEO Report. SEO means Search Engine Optimization. That is a fancy way of saying that the search engines expect to find certain things on your web-pages, and if they do find them, your website stands the best chance possible to rank high. And high rankings mean profitable websites.
Page Components Analysis
A summary view on the main Page Analysis tab, with a detail screen available on clicking the “view detail” button - this analysis breaks down your page content for review. Features Graph displays (enlargable), Page File sizes / Elements statistics, Page component lists: Headings, Images (with pop-up image-checker).
Readability Analysis
Page text analysis - including full Flesch Kincaid scoring of your page content, helping you communicate your message clearly to the greatest number of your web-site’s visitors
Publish your site with just two clicks
Having only entered your publishing settings once - Make updating your site a snap!
Full Sitemaps
Automatically created for your visitors’ ase-of-use, complete with page titles and descriptions. Also useful for ensuring your whole site gets indexed by search engines. New features include additional site map structure options (a new map style as well as features such as Pagination) as well as global style settings for making your Sitemap pages look great.
When your site grows large, the search engines like Google and Yahoo and MSN and ASK have more difficulty finding everything. The new sitemaps automatically created by XSitePro2 make it virtually certain that every part of your website is easy to find … by your visitors AND by all the search engines that will bring you more visitors.
Site Import and Export Functionality
Powerful tools allowing you to export your whole site, graphics and publishing details included, as a single XSE file for importing at the other end. Bring in a new site, edit it and hit publish - perfect for job-sharing/collaboration. Improved interface including site design preview as part of the import process.
Find & Replace on all pages
Update page content site-wide with this multi-page text search/replace tool. New version searches pages in the ‘background’ rather than in view.
Insert Tokens
Insert variables into your pages which will be updated at the time of publishing. When used in conjunction with multi-page creation wizard can give you a valuable head start on your page content.
Affiliate link wizard
Store your affiliate links in XSitePro and they’ll always be to hand ready for inserting in your pages in seconds. It’s right-click simple.
Paypal Integration
Sell products right off your web pages with this PayPal “Buy Button” Wizard. Easy to set up and something that could see you generating sales quickly from your pages.
Google Adsense
Monetize your web-pages with Google Adsense - fully integrated in XSitePro for ease-of-use. Get relevant adverts on your pages which can earn you money on autopilot. Updated to include ‘rounded corners’ feature.
Amazon Product Advertising: Product Link
Insert Amazon product links, and monetize your page content, using this new tool.
Amazon Product Advertising: Self Optimizing Adverts
Insert Amazon Self-Optimizing Adverts, and monetize your page content, using this new tool.
Amazon Product Advertising: Recommended Products
Insert Recommended Amazon Products, and monetize your page content, using this new tool.
Snippets
Stores all of those useful bits of code and signatures, etc., in the handy Snippets Library - then quickly insert them from the right-click menu when designing your pages.
Clipart Library
Insert pictures from a royalty-free selection of hundreds of clipart images, and bring your web pages to life.
Audio Wizard
Embed audio into your page content, complete with playback-controls and auto-playback functionality.
Video Wizard
Liven up your web-site with Web 2.0 features including video, using the powerful video wizard.
Forms Wizard
Add quality name-grab forms to your pages in seconds using the new Forms Wizard. Even enables you to create forms which will submit to you by e-mail, XMailPro, AWeber, Get Response™ or ListMail Pro™.
RSS Feed Wizard
Add quality RSS content into your pages to help keep them fresh, refresh your content and bring your visitors back over and over again. Choose from hundreds of pre-supplied feeds - simple to insert - and create your own, using this powerful tool.
Widgets Wizard
Huge range of enhanced scripts added in XSitePro v2.x for your convenience. Choose from scripts such including Banner Rotator, Image Gallery, Image Rollover, E-mail Cloaker, Jumping Text, Password Redirect, Random Quote, Open Page in New Window, Sticky Note, Status Link, Status Scroller, Status Slide-In, Title Scroller, Add to Favorites, Close Window, Print Page, FAQ, N ews Scroller, Countdown, F uture Date, Last Visit, Time of Day, and Today’s Date
Automatic Page Breaks
Break up your longer web pages, and add to your page-count in the process. Also features automatic pagination of the resultant pages, making it easy to navigate published pages.
Breadcrumb Trail
Insert advanced navigation features in your web pages using this tool - allow visitors to keep track of where they are in your site structure at any time and improve the overall navigation experience. New layout for Version 2.
Links Manager
Completely rewritten, and replacing the Links Page of v.1. This powerful tool is for creating multi-level links pages - great additional content with minimal effort for your site. Create a style once then all new links are added into your existing pages. Other features include:
Popups
Create powerful pop-ups that will get through to your visitors. Completely customizable and very effective - now enhanced in Version 2, with a seven step wizard to make it easier to create quality PopUps.
Site Search Form
Add search functionality to your site, making your content easier to navigate with this in-built search form wizard. A great way to improve the accessibility of your site.
Even some of the largest websites have to rely on Google to search inside their websites. With XSitePro2’s site search wizard, your visitors can search for any word - and your site delivers! Just one more way to demonstrate that your site was built by a pro!
Google XML Sitemap Submission
Create and submit a Google Sitemap - essential to your Google ranking - using this simple tool. Update includes restyled, tabbed interface for greater ease-of-use.
Siloing
A power-feature for advanced users - for creating search-engine-optimized interlinking structures within your site. You will learn more about this fantastic feature in the user’s manual.
Redirect Pages
Create custom redirects in seconds - a great tool for masking affiliate links with more ‘friendly’ URLs. Redesigned to make the screen clearer and simpler to use.
External Links Tool
Add links to external sites for inclusion within the navigation menus throughout your site. Screen redesigned - also now gives the option to launch linked page in a new browser.
Mobile Site Wizard
Output your site automatically formatted for mobile phone / WAP browsers. With the growth of mobile web usage this is a great way of widening the appeal of your site.
850 million people view web pages via their cell phones. Your mobile site wizard makes your entire site nicely readable for them. This is one more competitive advantage you will have over your competition!
XML Page Syndication
Quickly create syndicatable RSS feeds from your page content - a great way to build traffic from your existing content.
“XML” and “Syndication” are fancy ways of saying that when you put something really good on your website, you can offer it up to the entire internet. If a big, popular site picks up your content, then you can expect a flood of new visitors to your site to see what other interesting things are there. New visitors means new opportunities to boost your profits.
Social Networking Links
Quickly insert a variety of social networking links into your pages so that they become instantly viral.
PLUS!
Full 260-page “Essentials” instruction manual
Everything you need to know to start producing great looking sites, right at your fingertips in this comprehensive technical guide to XSitePro.
1000-Page Advanced User Guide
A focused reference guide to using the new features within XSitePro Version 2
Full Walkthrough tutorial
A 140-page step-by-step walkthrough, designed to get you up-and-running with the application as quickly as possible.
Dedicated technical support
24×7 Support ticket system manned by their friendly, professional support staff
Dedicated user forum
Their 12,000 users have already registered on this forum and have posted over 35,000 articles. If you have a question or are puzzled how something works, chances are you will find experienced help in under an hour.
Grab yourself a copy of XSitePro2 so you can spend more time creating valuable content for your website visitors and save yourself the agony of trying to figure out complicated website templates!
Visit http://www.XSiteProSoft.com for more details!
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