Marketing with WordPress and More

Kyle Tully is a respected internet marketing consultant

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I focus on WordPress so often in my posts, but I want everyone who reads this to know that one of the reasons I’m online like this is because of web design software that I bought.

I used to think that building a professional looking website was a specialized skill and very expensive.

I’m not a programmer. I figured if I wanted a shot at it I’d have to learn HTML, PHP, etc. and struggle for months trying to understand complex graphics programs.  Because of this, the only online presence I had for years was as a moderator for a free Yahoo group!

Somewhere, somehow I heard about the best website software for beginners (and beyond) -  software that helped people create truly professional looking websites easily.

It also:

• optimized the sites for search engines
• had LOTS of attractive, pro looking templates (not just the usual clunky package you get with other programs)
• had a very friendly support forum
• wasn’t expensive.

I figured this was too good to be true. But after some careful research (I am the careful research queen – lol) AND lots of reading on the friendly forum, it was clear that it was true so I bought it:

XSitePro Website Design Software

Best Web Design Software

After watching several video tutorials, I put up a site for a grass roots political party within a few days.

It was amazing to have a tool that allowed me to do that without knowing HTML. I worked with HTML a little bit, but it wasn’t difficult because XSitePro simplified things so much and tutorials told me what to do.

I also invested in

XSitePro Cheat Sheet

XSite Pro Cheat Sheet

The author, James Schramko, reveals ‘secret’ tweaks and techniques that will give your sites an even better edge in the search engines than the default settings in XSite Pro.

James has numerous posts on the XSite Pro forum, and other marketing forums. He has a lot of integrity and brilliance. You’ll see me mention him from time to time.

XSitePro website design software is great for beginners like I was and anyone who wants to put up a professional looking website fairy quickly.

XSitePro has a special focus on SEO and makes it easy to monetize sites with things like Adsense, affiliate links, etc. But if you just want to put up an artsy site it work for that beautifully too.

Is there anything I don’t like about it? I don’t care for most of the free templates it comes with, but I’m fussy and I can edit the templates fairly easily or create my own so that isn’t a big deal.

I recommend XSite Pro and it’s cool companion, XSite Pro Cheat Sheet. They are a beginner’s dream, and beyond. Thank you very much, creators of XSite Pro and James Schramko, for helping me get online in a serious (yet fun) way.

~ Lillea Woodlyns

Purchasing a domain name is affordable and swift. Great! After that’s done you can create your site right away.

Nope!

It takes up to 24 hours for a domain name to be ready. For us, when buying this domain, it was only 8 hours, but by then it was time for bed.

Time aside, top internet marketers like James Schramko wisely suggest that you buy domains for low prices and then transfer the domains to Hostgator for affordable hosting and highly desireable features like Cpanel. Cpanel allows you to easily access important files and settings.

After setting up a transfer, it will take up to 8 hours for it to go through.

For us it was only 1 hour. With relief, we powered on but then-

Even more waiting!

Yes. Up to 48 hours until the site is ready to use. It was less than 24 for us, but we had hoped to  start this blog on the same day.

Domain name buying and setting up hosting is definitely not so fast. No matter which company you go with allow 48 hours at least for a new domain, and up to 1 week if you’ve owned the domain for a while.

You can learn more about domain names and hosting here.