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does xsitepro or any addons have a wordpress theme that enable one to take the benefits of xsitepro and superimpose it on the benefits provided by the wordpress platform?

looking for ability to have a 'look and feel' and functionality more contemporary than what v2.5 provides

Hello webmuzer,

I think I may have just what you are looking for.

Turbo Flex Pro Theme Master - WordPress Edition

Visit the Theme Master Website here!
Turbo Flex Pro Theme Master

Please feel free to download the actual User's Manual to see for yourself if Theme Master can help in your mission of success.

Turbo Flex Pro Theme Master User's Manual

I hope you like what you see.

John King

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You're better of just learning WordPress and learning how to modify real WordPress themes. If you plan to work with WordPress, you need to learn it anyway.
All ThemeMasterPro does is let you mimic your XSite Pro design in WordPress. At this point, you no longer have an XSite Pro website, so why not start out with a WordPress theme to begin with?

If you want to build WordPress sites within a visual design environment check out Artisteer :http://www.artisteer.com/?p=home (No, I'm not an affiliate)
For $49.95 you can easily build your own WordPress themes without having to screw around learning oddball software to convert your XSite Pro site.
You just build a nice WordPress theme to begin with.

XSite Pro is old technology for building tables-based websites. That being said, it's still the best technology I've found for building tables-based sites.
I don't believe that XSite Pro is a good platform to use in designing WordPress themes or websites, though.

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XSitePro runs great on HostGator (WordPress does, too)

Hi,



Not really, you're better to 1.) consider XSiteProtoWordPress, or 2.) find someone to do the integration for you, unless you want to spend the next several months learning WordPress just to integrate a blog.

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-Brett...





XSitePro Templates - $297 | XSitePro Membership Sites, XSitePro Shopping Carts, XSitePro Scripts Integration

If you are just adding blogs to existing sites, XSiteProtoWordPress is the way to go. You actually convert your XSitePro header, page and navigation format into a WordPress theme. Once you learn how to do this, plugging in a blog that looks like your XSite Pro site becomes easy.

If you are in the business of creating WordPress websites and WordPress Themes, using XSite Pro as your starting point makes no sense. Why start with a table/cell based architecture to create a web site for a PHP/CSS/MySQL platform? I have used XSite Pro as a prototyping tool to create a visual "wireframe" for creating WordPress sites. I recycle the graphics, but the site gets a CSS/PHP foundation. I don't want all that extra table-cell code and all the other extra code that XSP needs to make their table/cell system work well (and it does work well when kept clean). They do this better than any other website creation tool that uses this underlying website structure. The WordPress Menu Builder is more flexible and works better with WP than bringing in XSP's Milonic.js menus.
Tables are only used in the content HTML where a table is needed for tabular data display. (I hope that I'm not beginning to sound like on of those "anti-table" CSS bigots)

I like and use XSite Pro. It's great for building static web sites. It's easy to add a blog to your site. It's just not my tool of choice for WordPress development.

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XSitePro runs great on HostGator (WordPress does, too)

Hello again webmuzer,

Here are some examples of XSitePro templates converted to WordPress themes. All the XSitePro templates below were originally created by Paul, at http://www.xsiteprotemplates.net/. He does some great work!

Each template below was converted to WordPress in under an hour by using Theme Master.

Registry Software Reviews template:
Xsitepro Version
and
Wordpress Version

Workout Guides Reviews template:
Xsitepro Version
and
Wordpress Version

I suppose just judge for yourself how Theme Master can help you quicky and easily create WordPress blog themes that you can be proud of.

I prefer css templates too, but these days using tables is fine. Content is king and that is what matters to Google, Bing, Yahoo, and most of the others.

I would have added more examples with non xsp templates, but apparantly you can only insert 5 links into each post. I never knew that here until today.

I hope you like what you see.

John

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Yessir, Mr. Client, we develop WordPress sites here at Wizbang Web Design.
First we create the site in XSite Pro, using tried and true tables and table cells for that old-fashioned code look.
Then we take this XSite Pro code, add some additional codes and publish it.
After that, we take the published XSite Pro code and import it into this ThemeMasterPro program.
We use this program to create your WordPress website. It's the best way to build WordPress sites, trust us.

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Yes, Mr. Client, here at WordPress Web Design, we start with WordPress files and and build your WordPress site.
Well no, why would we need to export, import, convert and export? We just start with WordPress files to begin with.
What are your goals for your web site? What format do you want? What features do you need? They are all available with WordPress.

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XSitePro runs great on HostGator (WordPress does, too)

Theme Master is not just for XSitePro templates.

Tableless templates, flash templates, webpags from a website, or whatever.

So the "old fashioned" code you speak of is by choice of the user.

With Theme Master you can convert highly optimized templates that are pure css if you want as well.

It all just depends on the template you choose to convert. This is the beauty of Theme Master.

The code in the theme files that Theme Master creates are sound and work flawlessly with WordPress.

And it takes mere minutes to create awesome themes.

John King

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