I was checking out a blog post at Custom Xsitepro Templates and discovered there were some really interesting thoughts regarding xsitepro templates, I thought all xsite templates were the same.....boy was I wrong. Since I use Xsitepro to create my public domain sites, I found the concept of custom xsite templates interesting.
Anyone who has used xsitepro can easily tell when a website is created with xsitepro templates. Once an Xsitepro website pops up in your browser, there's no doubt that it was made with the standard Xsitepro templates.
I'm not intimating that xsitepro is a bad program for creating websites, but simply that the pages it creates all have a standard look and appear to be created by a newbie. Now....I'm not ripping on Xsitepro or their users. Now, because of Xsitepro's use of templates......just about anyone can get a website online and maintain it, while learning the basics of working online. Anyone can choose an xsitepro template, plug it into the xsitepro program and begin to build a website, edit the website and upload it to the word wide web.
This is my concern, as someone who runs an online business and offline business, I want the most professional looking website available. How a business physically appears will often determine whether that person will buy, the same applies to your website, if it looks like a 10 year old created it.....well, that visitor will click away as fast as his mouse finger allows!
You have 2 options, you can contract with a professional website designer specializing in Custom Xsitepro Templates or you can learn to create custom templates yourself. I can create an xsitepro template that is next to impossible for anyone to tell that the site made from xsitepro. Another option is to search for some 3rd party providers of xsitepro templates, you can find some pretty nasty stuff, but there are also some great looking xsite templates that are packaged together. Yes, I'm a fan of custom xsite templates, but if your budget doesn't allow you to purchase one of these classy looking templates you can learn to use all the features of xsite ver 2 to create some pretty nice looking webpages using the standard templates.
You can check out one of the custom xsite templates I created recently, I altered it a little and created a small set of pages using Xsitepro Templates as the theme, click on Custom Xsitepro Themes to see an example.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Seamless Integration of Wordpress into Xsitepro with XsiteprotoWordpress
Just wanted to give you a heads up regarding a new way to incorporate a wordpress blog into xsitepro. I'll do a more thorough review latter, but you can learn a little more about this one of a kind tool called XsiteprotoWordpress by reading below....believe me, you won't want to miss out on this if you are an Xsitepro or Wordpress user!
I do a lot of work with Xsitepro. It’s a fantastic platform for
creating websites….fast! Better yet, just about anybody can get online
quickly if they use xsitepro. Surprisingly there is another way to get
online quickly and easily…that’s by using a blog, in particular a
Wordpress blog. In a perfect world I would use a wordpress blog and add
it to a xsitepro website, however, there hasn’t been an easy way to
create a seamless transition between the two…..that is until now! A
friend of mine is working on a system called XsiteprotoWordpress
which does exactly what we need, you can add a wordpress blog
seamlessly to a xsitepro website. Below is an article which explains it
a little further.
Did you ever want to install a wordpress blog in your xsitepro website?
Maybe you wanted to install the wp blog in your website but didn’t want to have the blog look differently than the Xsitepro website.
It’s a tall order to customize a wordpress theme to match the
xsitepro website and a task much taller than the average webmaster can
accomplish.
Well, I have some good news for you. I stumbled across a new product called XsiteprotoWordpress which promises to teach you to seamlessly integrate a wordpress blog into your xsitepro website.
This is straight from the Creators:
We have been building XSitePro websites and integrating WordPress
blogs for our clients with great success. Our specialty has been to
give our clients top notch sites with blogs that are seamlessly
integrated into the main site. Through this we have learned the inner
workings of both XSitePro and WordPress systems.
Keep an eye on this product if you want to learn how to create a blog and website that are seamlessly integrated.
If you purchased Xsitepro
chances are that you purchased it because of the ease of creating
websites. The other thing it does is create websites that have pages
which are properly optimized for search engines. This is so very
important if you want traffic to your website and Xsitepro does this
automatically behind the scenes….to date no other website editor has
been able to do this.
Enter Wordpress….although not a typical website editor or creator as
you know wordpress creates blogs. The beauty behind a wordpress blog is
that creates webpages that are optimized to an even greater degree than
xsitepro and attracts the search engine spiders like a magnet. At this
point, there simply isn’t a better way to create a webpage that is
built for traffic generation.
This is where XsiteprotoWordpress
comes in. You can take the effectiveness of Xsitepro and Wordpress and
bring them together. I can tell you from experience that having an
Xsitepro website with a Wordpress Blog will bring massive amounts of
traffic and the addition of the two platforms is synergistic. By that,
I mean, the sum is greater than the addition of the individual parts.
Check out XsiteprotoWordpress today….if it’s not live yet, do yourself a favor and join their mailing list!
Tags: xsitepro, wordpress blog, xsiteprotowordpress, wordpress and xsitepro, wordpress
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Article Marketing and Internet Marketing Discovered
Internet marketing and article marketing are not the same thing, because internet marketing is a broad concept with many smaller concepts beneath it, and article marketing is one of those smaller facets of internet marketing. You have to understand that these two ideas are a perfect match for marketing online because to some degree internet marketing is dependent or composed of article marketing. Internet marketing and article marketing go hand in hand because using articles to market yourself, your website or your affiliate products is absolutely vital in creating a complete internet marketing solution.
As mentioned there are many ways to market a product or service online and that process is appropriately called internet marketing. Many of the different methods of marketing your product or service on the internet have a cost associated to it....in most cases, you have to pay for advertising on the internet just as you have to pay
for advertising a brick and mortar business. That is, advertising isn't free unless you are advertising through article marketing. This free form of marketing has been in existence for a while and only a handfull of smart internet marketer's have been using it until lately. Actually, almost since the printing press, business owners have sold their goods and services by writing articles, basically writing an article of good content, that is , usable information that solves a problem and then they insert a small advertisement or byline at the end of the article. Article marketing is a beautiful thing, when it comes to internet marketing or ecommerce because your information is disseminated throughout the internet building a name for your self while creating the ever elusive network of backlinks to the products or services you want to sell or promote.
Let's take a look at some of the benefits and features of article marketing:
- Article Marketing will bring you those needed backlinks from the article directories to your affiliate products or website. This is important because Google will place more value on your website when it notices that there are many links pointing back to your website.
- By using keywords correctly in your articles you will position yourself as an authority for the subjects or niches that you write about. If you write good information, problem solving articles....readers will come to depend upon you for the information you write about.
- By adding a byline or resource box to your content you will be giving potential customers a way to contact you after reading your valuable content. Not only will this create powerful links, but it will also help connect additional traffic to your website that you would not normally be able to get.
- If you focus on creating articles that have been properly optimized, using search engine optimization techniques, your website traffic will increase greatly and if you submit your articles to directories where everyone can use them, the backlinks and pagerank will increase greatly.
For these reasons, it is absolutely vital that article marketing be a facet of any internet marketing plan that you put together. As I mentioned, there are many different ways to market and promote your web site, however, I've disclosed one of the most important methods...that of internet marketing with article marketing which presents a call to action for the readers of of your articles, encouraging them to click the link to your website for more information on the products, services, websites and even affiliate products that you are attempting to market!
Shh... Don't tell anybody, but this is the secret software program that I use to get tons of quality, 1 way links to my new websites, with very little effort...Callens's Newest Article Tool Creation
How writing a simple ezine article can bring more traffic to your site for FREE. Super Article Marketing Treatise
Are you Targeting the wrong keywords? Find out in Josh Spaulding's Article Marketing Domination
Learn about the new software program that is being secretly used by top ranked websites in Google, Yahoo, and MSN!Newest Article Marketing Tool
How to use Signature Files to Gain MORE Visitors. Super Affiliate Handbook
Can I use the same articles I submit to article directories on my site as well? Find out in Josh Spaulding's Article Marketing Domination
As mentioned there are many ways to market a product or service online and that process is appropriately called internet marketing. Many of the different methods of marketing your product or service on the internet have a cost associated to it....in most cases, you have to pay for advertising on the internet just as you have to pay
for advertising a brick and mortar business. That is, advertising isn't free unless you are advertising through article marketing. This free form of marketing has been in existence for a while and only a handfull of smart internet marketer's have been using it until lately. Actually, almost since the printing press, business owners have sold their goods and services by writing articles, basically writing an article of good content, that is , usable information that solves a problem and then they insert a small advertisement or byline at the end of the article. Article marketing is a beautiful thing, when it comes to internet marketing or ecommerce because your information is disseminated throughout the internet building a name for your self while creating the ever elusive network of backlinks to the products or services you want to sell or promote.Let's take a look at some of the benefits and features of article marketing:
- Article Marketing will bring you those needed backlinks from the article directories to your affiliate products or website. This is important because Google will place more value on your website when it notices that there are many links pointing back to your website.
- By using keywords correctly in your articles you will position yourself as an authority for the subjects or niches that you write about. If you write good information, problem solving articles....readers will come to depend upon you for the information you write about.
- By adding a byline or resource box to your content you will be giving potential customers a way to contact you after reading your valuable content. Not only will this create powerful links, but it will also help connect additional traffic to your website that you would not normally be able to get.
- If you focus on creating articles that have been properly optimized, using search engine optimization techniques, your website traffic will increase greatly and if you submit your articles to directories where everyone can use them, the backlinks and pagerank will increase greatly.
For these reasons, it is absolutely vital that article marketing be a facet of any internet marketing plan that you put together. As I mentioned, there are many different ways to market and promote your web site, however, I've disclosed one of the most important methods...that of internet marketing with article marketing which presents a call to action for the readers of of your articles, encouraging them to click the link to your website for more information on the products, services, websites and even affiliate products that you are attempting to market!
Shh... Don't tell anybody, but this is the secret software program that I use to get tons of quality, 1 way links to my new websites, with very little effort...Callens's Newest Article Tool Creation
How writing a simple ezine article can bring more traffic to your site for FREE. Super Article Marketing Treatise
Are you Targeting the wrong keywords? Find out in Josh Spaulding's Article Marketing Domination
Learn about the new software program that is being secretly used by top ranked websites in Google, Yahoo, and MSN!Newest Article Marketing Tool
How to use Signature Files to Gain MORE Visitors. Super Affiliate Handbook
Can I use the same articles I submit to article directories on my site as well? Find out in Josh Spaulding's Article Marketing Domination
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