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Complex site building software designed to work easily by tutorial walkthroughs.

Large amount of software upgrades from version 1 as well as higher quality templates and improved functionality.

I've been developing web sites for since the 1990s, and I can tell you I've tried literally dozens of "web site builder" applications that promise you "one-click" solutions when it comes to making a professional web site. Nearly every one of those tools fell short on their promises by a large margin. I stuck to creating my own sites for years until I came across the original XSitePro.

While I typically shy away from tools that dumb-down the design process (because they produce dumb-downed web pages) I was very impressed from the outset of the depth of options XSitePro gave you. You could customize your site's design, colors, and a variety of other parameters were easy to set through the interface. Once you were done you could "publish" the site with the built-in ftp client. All in all it was a great tool for producing quality web sites.

While the initial version of XSitePro was powerful there has been a significant gap in the time it's taken to release the sequel. In that time quite of few things have changed in web design, from CSS as an accepted standard, to RSS feeds and video. We've all waited patiently (for the most part) for the new version to be released. XSitePro developers have been very closed-lipped about their latest version, but finally we have been presented with a taste of XSitePro 2.

New Design

In a webinar put on by an excellent presenter named Richard Butterworth we were allowed an exclusive glimpse into the power of XSitePro 2. There have been enough changes and additions to make this warrant a brand new title. The wait was definitely worth it!

The Power Center of XSitePro 2, as Richard Butterworth calls it. It's true, the right-click menu in XSitePro always provided an easy and quick way to customize a page. Now there's a tremendous amount of power added:

RSS Feed Wizard - Add an RSS feed as content, select a feed, customize style, insert into page
Insert streaming audio - Adds playback controls
Insert video - converts to web format
Widgets - Banner rotators, image gallery, popups, faqs. Print page, image rollovers, email cloaker
Site Search - requires PHP, exclude pages from search
Forms Wizard - Works with XMailPro, AWeber, Get Response, List Mail Pro, or standard email.
Advertising - Amazon, Google, PayPal
PayPal Advertising - Allows selling of digital products
Social Network Link

PayPal Button Wizard

To me one of the most powerful features is the ability to create a button that allows you to sell digital product downloads. As an author web ebooks and other sellable digital content this really caught my eye. It allows you to add a button to your site that will direct a customer to PayPal for payment, and then back to your download page on a successful transaction. All done in less than 30 seconds! It is a powerful feature that no other web site design product has. I'll buy it for this feature if nothing else.

Rob Joans