Like splork, I too bought the IAT1 and wud have asked for refund if it was allowed. In fact I paid $297 for the stuff, that’s right that’s the premium edition. I tot it shud costs $40 to $50 at most.

Till then I was sucker for the latest hype, but with that my turning point for reading and purchasing Guberu’s overpriced and overhyped stuff was settled. Now I dun read emails like that anymore and I did not buy anything else afterwards. Splork commentaries and rantings have made me more aware… cheers

IAT is NOT worth it .

I bought it and it was just not worth it. Actual worth? Something around $50-100. No more…

One of my big regrets.

And Joel is a very prolific emailler…Geez, I cannot stand his emails almost every day!!!

Brian

To be fair, I will say that the templates are all there. It’s what was advertised AFAIK. I watched all the videos and did learn a thing or two from them however a lot of the videos content is basic copy/paste and html manipulations. The tidbits of html gunk that were helpful simply boiled down to affiliate link locations. They covered operation of some of the few programs that are available on the CD, which was mildly useful. At this point it’s unlikely that I’ll spend anything for upgraded or non-included programs like XSP. The one program I had hopes for will not run on my system since I don’t need or want .NET on it. I have no clue why someone would write a simple program like Kelidosite or whatever and require the .NET snarl. Only thing I can think of is it’s for some sort of phone home or is spyware. I mean my god, the thing is just supposed to change the color codes AFAIK.

HyperVRE looks pretty cool in the video but I am not going to be cobbling my sites together with it. I’m just too hard headed to hand over code creation to a program like it or XSP.. EVEN if it saves me time and makes more profitable pages, sooner. I’ll just resort to learning what special things they do and do it myself.

I realize it was supposed to be niche markets but some of these are a bit much, and there are several alarmingly similar templates. One is about a lake somewhere I’ve never heard of, one on toenail fungus. Well I hope someone out there finds those useful. I suppose though that is my problem.. I’ve not yet broken over from doing things I like to doing things just for money. Heck, getting a suitable domain and posting up a toenail fungus website with all it’s monitization stuff may be killer for making money! Problem is I have no real desire to maintain such a site, looking for information about such stuff. Probably my $$ loss though.

Although I have not completely examined all the templates I did notice very quickly that none of the squeeze pages are valid XML or HTML. The validation began and ended with the templates apparently. Probably no big deal to clean them up but it would be nice if something as simple as these squeeze pages were validated just for the hell of it. The noobs who don’t care about spagetti code won’t care but it’s my belief that if your site is most accessable it is also most digestable by both more people and search engine crawlers.

While browsing through the templates it occured to me that many of them may be taken from the personal photo albums of the crew. Now, what can I say, going on vacations from the previous IAT revenue and selling the photos from it with a few HTML skeleton variations, for some $400,000 ain’t a bad gig.

Splork, your insight from earlier:

“..someone who can code via vedit it may be a bitter pill to swallow.”

Has merit to be sure. Nonetheless I have never used a template from anywhere before and with further examination them I may learn something. Right off I’ve not even dug into XML, I’m still using HTML 4.01 for everything. If nothing else, this could be the thing that pushes me into learning about XML finally.

I’ve got no hard feelings about the purchase. If I decide it’s just too much directional change for me to use these templates the whole package on ebay might actually be a money maker for me. lol

I’m not interested in justifying the $300 for a few ebooks if I just can’t bring myself to use any of the templates.

NH

Love XSP. Have been a happy owner for over two years now I think.

Later. Let us know how it goes.

Ahh well. Enough speculation and oral diarrhea about JC and Co. It’s not like they need any additional coverage on the web. I’m out of here. I’ll drop back perhaps to post some final comments about my feelings for the package once I get it and pick it apart.