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.
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