Overview of XsitePro Tutorials Lessons 1 to 11

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Lesson 1: Managing Projects and Web Sites (6 minutes)

This first lesson will ease you in gently by showing you the basics of working with XSitePro. You'll learn how to add, rename and delete a project, add and edit meta*data, add, rename and delete a web site and how to export and import web sites. You'll see how easy it is to work with multiple projects and you'll even learn how to move your work from one computer to another, from a desktop to a laptop for example.

Lesson 2: Page Layout (8 minutes)

In this lesson you'll 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'll learn how to separate ANY web page into sections and how to adjust the elements in each section to meet your specific need. You'll also find out how easy it is to add navigational menus, and you'll get your first look at the Designer window. To finish off you'll preview what's been done so far.

Lesson 3: Adding Web Pages (5 minutes)

The third 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.

Lesson 4: The Designer (6 minutes)

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.

Lesson 5: Special Pages (5 minutes)

This lesson 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.

Lesson 6: Affiliates (6 minutes)

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.

Lesson 7: Search Engine Optimization (8 minutes)

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.

Lesson 8: The Other Tab, Volume 1 (8 minutes)

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.

Lesson 9: The Other Tab, Volume 2 (8 minutes)

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.

Lesson 10: PowerPack Features (10 minutes)

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.

Lesson 11: Publishing (10 minutes)

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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