Much Easier Way to Create a Great Website than a Blog …
ByI just took about an hour to get a new page for one of my Wordpress blogs (www.abundantgiftsblog.com) looking the way I wanted it.
It would have taken me 5 minutes at most to do the same thing in XSite Pro, the web design software I use for most of my sites.
People keep telling me WordPress blogs are better, so easy to use.
My experience has been: I could not even have a WP blog without Cathy Perkins, “the wordpress wizard.” I listen to her free weekly teleseminars and without those, and her expert help when needed, I’d be lost.
On the other hand, I’ve had very few issues with XSP. I can put up a web site in minutes. This one I put up in 10 minutes. The template came with the program. It was a matter of copying and pasting the copy I’d already written in Word. (And unlike copying and pasting from Word to a WP blog, I have little to no issues with formatting.)
What about search engine ranking with XSP vs. WordPress? Well, when I put in the keywords ‘develop your audience” into Google just now, my WP blog (this one, which I’ve been posting on for years) came up 3rd, and my NEW site (the XSite Pro site, www.developyouraudience.com) came up FIRST.
That’s because the search engine optimization is built into XSite Pro and it’s entirely controlled by me. Very easy to do, too. With a blog, supposedly it’s “built in.” There are plug-ins you can use to optimize. But that involves, again, a whole lot more work than what I have to do with XSite Pro.
AND, the work I did do on my new blog page, I had to know html to figure out how to format the look. I don’t have to know one thing about html to use XSite Pro. If you can use Word, you can use XSite Pro–they are that similar.
So, again, I have to say I much prefer XSite Pro web design software. It’s a very small investment to make for software that will save you gobs of time on creating a website. You absolutely do not need any webmaster with XSite Pro. Their support is fantastic if you do have problems. It’s honestly one of the best products and companies I’ve run across–period.
And I’m pretty picky.
2 Comments
May 5th, 2009 at 5:48 am
Thanks for the recommendation, Diane. I’ve been trying to figure out what I want to do with Book Marketing Buzz. I can’t stop long enough to sit down and figure out what I want to do with it, only I do know I want a new template. I’m using the free wordpress blog for now, but want to go a step up. I’ll check into these links, but was it hard?
May 5th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Dorothy,
It was not hard, if what you mean is installing and using XSite Pro. You install it on your computer, you work on it on your computer, and you upload it (very easy, ftp built into XSite Pro) when ready. You can change anything very easily and quickly–like working in Word–and then again publish. With my blog, I am constantly having to save, preview, and sometimes my computer is slow.
There are advantages to using a blog, which is why I use both. The main one being that people can comment. But maybe XSite Pro will be able to add that, too.
If you want to get something up fast, easily, that you can have complete control over, get XSite Pro. There are lots of different kinds of templates to choose from, and if you already have a header, you can easily use that. Look at what I did with http://www.publishingcoachweekly. I just used this header in a blank XSite Pro template, and added a few design differences (very easy, don’t have to know anything about design except what you like), and there it was. There are also very powerful applications with XSite Pro that I’m beginning to explore. My sites are available on people’s mobile phones now. It’s really an amazing program.