Comments on: XSitePro 2.0 Rocks

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:00:41 +0000

Many thanks Splork…appreciated!

By: Splork

Splork — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:47:11 +0000

Colin, open the program.
Add Project – fill in the info.
Add website – choose template – fill in the info
Configure as you like in the page layout.
Go to web pages tab. Edit the pre installed pages or start adding your own pages.
Finished – go to publishing tab and publish your site.

That is the quick start. You’ll have to play around with it some to configure your site like you want it (like left or right sidebar, etc). Additionally if you have a package of html or txt articles you can import them by going to the other tab and choosing “Import Pages”. That is a huge time saver. If you plan on using the built in advertising you’ll have to add your account info.

By: Colin

Colin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:32:10 +0000

Can anyone tell me how to fast set up a XSP niche mini site using pre-set templates, and without ploughing through the manual? Many thanks.

By: Splork

Splork — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:07:54 +0000

Go to the “page settings” tab on each webpage you want to post. At the bottom you will see “Advanced settings” (below the description box). Click it and then you will see another list of tabs of which “scheduling” is one. Schedule that page.

By: Dave Owen

Dave Owen — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:25:50 +0000

Splork

I have looked into the scheduler and must be very dense.

I see how to set up the schedule but how do I tell it to add the articles?

Do I publish say 5 then add the rest of the ones I want scheduled and then turn on the scheduler?

I would appreciate any help at all on this?

Thx
Dave

By: Leo Dimilo

Leo Dimilo — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:36:28 +0000

Hey Splork,

I actually am building a BANS site with XSitePro2 right now and did a seo spider simulator. To my dismay, I noticed that the blasted spiders aren’t indexing the feed themselves. When I took a look at the SEO Optimization of the site, it showed that my ebay feeds were displaying as images. Did you run into this as well?

By: Splork

Splork — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:26:32 +0000

It depends on how much flexibility you want building a site. I imported over a dozen sites with no problem, but I didn’t have any crazy mods. I just had pages with content and an ad. Pretty simple. But that is all I was after with the program three years ago and again today. I’m no newbie but I appreciate the ease of the work flow. For me it is the easiest and most organized way to get a site up.

By: mark ling

mark ling — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:43:25 +0000

I’m actually really disappointed in XSP version 2. One of the biggest, most annoying things about XSP is that the code it spits out is not great from an SEO perspective. Nested tables, etc. I thought it would have spat out nicely formatted css, div tags etc that loads twice as fast.

Seemed like the obvious next step, but no, still the same crap that needs a coder to go in and fix up.

XSP 2 also has trouble importing XSP 1 websites and takes a lot of fiddling.

Also, it’s really annoying how xsite pro makes it so difficult to remove a left hand menu (lets say you want to keep it on some pages, but not on others (e.g. ppc landing pages)). If you remove it, it removes itself from every page, which isn’t what is wanted. Yet if you decide to ignore page layout completely (the solution that XSitePro recommends), you lose all your settings, not just your menu, but your fonts, backdrop headergraphc, the works.

I admit XSP 1 and 2 are good products, don’t get me wrong there, as they are very good for newbies to use and make it fast and easy to set up article sites. But I see no real great advance in xsitepro 2 that are actually going to great impact on peoples $$$.