XSitePro Video Tutorials
In the following XSitePro video tutorials you will see how to use some of the great features
in XSitePro2.
All the features in XSitePro are easy
to use and would otherwise be difficult and time consuming things to impliment in other website design
software programs.
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This first XSitePro video tutorial will ease you in gently by showing you the
basics of working with XSitePro. You
will learn how to add, rename and delete a project, add and edit metadata, add, rename and delete a
web site and how to export and import web sites.
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In this video tutorial you will see the power of the page layout tab and how it
helps you to create the overall look of your site quickly and easily. You will learn how to
separate ANY web page into sections and how to adjust the elements in each section.
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The third xsitepro lesson covers creating and editing web pages. You'll learn how to add
and manipulate web pages, the importance of keywords and page descriptions and how to specify
whether a page appears on either the left (or right) navigation menu or on the menu that appears at
the bottom of the page. We'll also share a few tricks-of-the-trade such as how to insert category
headings and links to external pages to your navigation menus
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This is where we add the actual meat of your website such as the text and graphics of your
pages. You'll learn how to enter content into the Designer section of XSitePro, what each of the buttons on the
Designer toolbar are for and how to insert design elements such as shaded boxes, graphical bullet
points and lots more using the right-clicking Design Wizard. You'll also learn how to switch
between Design and Source views just in case you want to tweak your html code.
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This XSitePro video tutorial starts off by showing you a time saving technique
for creating product pages and then moves on to introduce a very powerful timesaving feature in
XSitePro called Sub-Pages. Clever use
of sub-pages allows you to create huge, well-organized, professional-quality sites in a fraction of
the time it would take in any other software. To finish off you'll be introduced to the
auto-updating site maps and how to easily add articles manually so that they all follow the same
style and layout.
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In this lesson you'll discover two powerful ways of using the web pages you've created to
help you make money. You'll see how XSitePro makes it simple to manage all of the information for the affiliate
schemes you are a member of and how it allows you to add correctly formatted affiliate links on any
page you want, with just a couple of mouse clicks. You'll discover an amazingly simply way of
inserting Google Adsense into your pages and how you can quickly and easily format the Adsense ads
to suit the style of your site.
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In this lesson, you'll learn about the importance of the search engine optimization (SEO)
phrase, how to appropriately choose it and how to make use of the SEO table inside XSitePro. You'll learn how to use the
Suggested Actions list to make sure your web pages are search engine friendly. You'll also learn
how to generate reports about the search engine friendliness of your site and learn how to
fine-tune your search engine optimization settings.
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In this video lesson you'll find out how to improve the navigation and file structure of
your web site. You'll learn how to add a breadcrumb Trail to your pages just like the professional
sites have and how to customize your Navigation Bar to meet your specific design requirements.
You'll also pick up some file management tricks such as adding new files with the File Manager,
changing file name conventions and customizing the page titles.
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In the ninth lesson you'll find out how to build powerful pop-up windows that appear
only when you want them to appear and stop appearing after the conditions you specify have been met
(when an order has been placed for example). You also learn how to set up redirects, how to add
scripts, handle robots, set up a links page and add your own or a ready-made privacy statement to
your site.
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In this penultimate lesson you are introduced to a collection of features created
especially for power users. Don't worry if you are an inexperienced user as this video will explain
everything clearly in language you are sure to understand. Learn all about creating a specially
formatted XML site map that could give your Google rankings a real boost. Discover how to use the
Import Pages tool to incorporate pages into your site, including pages that were not even created
with XSitePro. Find out how to use
Tokens to automatically insert certain kinds of text into your pages and learn how to use the
Multi-Page Creation Wizard to quickly create an effective site structure.
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In this final lesson you'll learn how to publish your site to the Internet. You'll be
taken through getting a web domain name and hosting account and how to enter all of the relevant
information into XSitePro so that it
knows where to upload your site to. You also discover why the Extra Publishing Details screen is a
great place to store all of the other information relating to the domain in question.
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