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No, Paul Smithson, the creator of xsitepro didn’t hold a gun to my head. I was cruising along with my blog and my other 5 or 6 sites - mostly produced with Microsoft Frontpage, Mozilla Composer and nvu, plus textpad and cuteFTP and things were going quite nicely.
[Xsitepro is not only a WYSIWYG web authoring tool, but also a complete site creation and management tool, including SEO functionality, FTP and much much more.]
That was until I got frustrated. I remember when I was so excited to earn 0.05c on the internet. It was like wow! The only problem being it cost me $138 dollars to make it. I’m not ashamed because I know you can relate. Then I made $20 dollars and it was like - cool - still cost me about $178 to make that, if I factored in all the info I’d paid for and various bits of software annuitized.
But I was having fun and that was the main thing - and seriously that was the main thing. I was creating and writing and having ideas and learning and communicating. This was life - a form of life anyway and part of life that more and more people are becoming part of.
I loved it. The girlfriend didn’t. Why are you spending all that time on the computer to make $2?
Well, I’d say - it’s going up and I’m learning more and I’m going to keep going and that’s that. You see I get pretty worked up about my goals. To me they are my sacred property to be cherished and nurtured. I think she detected that. She saw the passion or obsession and it struck a chord.
Now that my stats are climbing on a month to month basis she’s all for it and I was glad to be able to follow through.
Successful activity though forced me to search for more resources to keep the momentum going. You see when the stats are climbing you need to keep them going by doing more of whatever you were doing. What I was doing was building sites. Some were crap and didn’t do much but all believe it or not were profitable, just some more so.
One day I was sitting at the computer and I registered 23 domain names. Now I had a problem, I new how long it was going to take me to build decent looking sites with Wordpress, Frontpage etc and I would be still building them next year.
I’d heard of xsitepro and quite frankly I thought it was probably some hyped up program. I mean the sales page talks about duplicating site after site and making $1250 with each site. Well, to be honest that’s not my experience of sites. I’m happy if a site makes me $50-$100 per month on an ongoing basis, although some of my sites are doing far more - I just can’t predict which ones.
What forced me to buy it was 23 undeveloped sites and the prospect of building each one. Man that was slow freight. So I bit the bullet and forked out the $197 for xsitepro. Next day I made it all back anyway - sometimes it works like that. So I was already in front.
I have one criticism of xsitepro - it doesn’t handle tables very well - maybe I’m just not used to it - it’s a little different from Front Page - I’m sure they will improve it - this should definitely be done - but since they do regular improvements - I’m sure they will.
Apart from that - xsitepro is SWEET. It keeps your sites and projects so organized and I am a really disorganized person - but my xsitepro sites are not. Tasks like linking, redirect pages, google sitemaps,
sitemaps, adsense, code insertion, site wide style changes are all such a snap that it really does increase the site building process by a factor of 5 in my case.
If you are doing affiliate marketing it’s just fantastic - all you need to do is come up with the content and you can create a really tight little affiliate site that looks super-profesional. If you want to see my first site that I built with it go here - I’ll be adding more content to it. This was just using one of the basic templates. There are tons of templates to choose from.
I’ll probably build %90 of my sites with xsitepro - some of them are not suited to it - but heck I’ve still got frontpage if I need it.
The best thing about xsitepro for me is that I really do have the confidence that using it I can complete these 23 sites and have them cooking along. What that means to me personally is that it will take me to the next level of income and lifestyle and $197 is the best money I have spent on a web design program.
I highly recommend xsitepro.
website design software, xsiteproA free keyword tool you can try is Chris Baker and Don Shiverdecker’s tool at Good Free Keyword tool. This keyword tool gives you a number of different keyword related data, such as number of Google ads, Number of Overture Searches, and number of books on that keyword and all from the same page.
There’s not much more I can say about it - except try it and see if it works for you. I’ve bookmarked it for regular use. It’s quick, easy and pretty cool.
P.S
Once you have the keywords, you can populate your site with keyword rich articles. A quick and easy way to do that is to use a software tool, such as Article Miner.
keyword tool
PhotoFiltre is a nice graphics program, that I use as a free alternative to Photoshop. It has many nice features, such as the ability to overlay text over images, for header design.
It also has a nice range of free plug-ins - such as mirror image to name one.
PhotoFiltre has been produced by a French Guy - and is a pretty impressive and stable program. Some of the help files for the plug-ins are in French but installing a plug-in is easy.
Here’s how to install a PhotoFiltre plug-in:
- Download the plug-in file from the PhotoFiltre Plug-in Page
- Unzip it using Winzip
- Extract the files into the plug-in directory in your Photofiltre installation
- On the View menu, click plug-ins bar and the available plug-ins will show on the left hand sidebar as little icons
Now that’s cool.
You can do a lot of special effects with PhotoFiltre - so for a cool graphics program for nix at least check it out. I have used it for many of my projects and only discoved the PhotoFiltre plug-in page today - hence my post.
I’ve used the PhotoFiltre Screen Capture Plug-in to Produce the Following Pic:
It’s a little small but you get the idea!

Heres another neat trick I did with the Photofiltre plug-in: looks like Google Ads Huh? Well, this is a screen capture. How come it’s so neat? Because the screen capture plug-in is smart - you can adjust settings to capture various objects around the page or the whole page or the whole page with browser. It’s a very cool tool.

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