To continue with my “Live” review of xsite pro 2 and the new website for the Clippies Fayre restaurant I am at a bit of a loss.

This software didn’t just impress me, it bloody well blew me away.

Took about 10 minutes to download and install it (fast broadband rocks!) – the welcome video suggested reading the tutorial before “diving in”, but I’ve never been one for instructions – lol.

So, software loaded up, Picked a template out of the hundreds available (and yes, there’s enough templates to choose from to keep you busy for years).

I started playing around.  Took various elements from the old Clippies Fayre website and brought it into my new template, ok that was easy enough. very easy interface, no confusion like Dreamweaver where I think you need a PhD to figure out completely.

Within 30 minutes, and NO that isn’t an under exaggeration, I was staring at what could possibly be the prettiest AND most functional website I have ever designed so quickly —> Check it out!

It’s still hungry for content, but as I said, this is being done over a number of weeks but just look at it!

Proper site structure, nice professional graphics (the table panoramic is mine by the way ), a news ticker announcing menu specials, even a popup to get people onto our mailing list (weekly specials, advanced bookings and stuff).

And how long did this take me using xsite pro 2?….

About 30 minutes

“Yeah right Paul” I can hear you all saying, but no I’m totally serious, I had this baby structured and laid out using xsite pro 2 in around 30 minutes, and that’s including the popup – incredible eh?

What I may try and do is create a video some time this week so you can see the absolute power of this software and how damn easy it is to use.

Site obviously still not completed, but it’s a damn site better than my previous manual attempts

Comments would be appreciated

Cheers
Paul.