About Me... and XSitePro!

Why work with me? I'm flexible, responsive and accommodating. I address your unique business requirements. I understand your need to keep things simple, to save time, to reduce the stress and chaos in your life. While other XSitePro template providers produce off-the-shelf templates and headers, I never do. Every template, every header I create for you is completely unique to you and your business.

I bend over backwards to take care of you and your business, and to provide you with complete XSitePro template services. If you need advice or help in any of the day-to-day details of building your online business, I offer real answers to your questions and real solutions to your problems. My Resources page offers you truly useful, high quality products, services and sites. Some are free, others are cheap, none are expensive. I also offer a series of XSitePro tips delivered to your in-box at weekly intervals.

Andrea Wilson

My name is Andrea Wilson. I'm 61 years old, a grandmother and a Web designer. I'm the author of AbleWebs.com, XSiteProDesigns.com, XSiteProTemplates.com, OnlineMarketingVancouver.com, and AndreaWilson.com. After building my Web design business part time for several years, I left corporate life in September of 2004 and I've been supporting myself ever since with a home-based business, just like you do or just like you can!

How this Web site came into being...

After several years of building Web sites for small businesses across the world, I was tearing my hair out! How could I...

1. provide excellent services within the budgets of most small businesses?
2. find a less expensive alternative to a full-blown custom Web site for my clients?
3. make it easy for site owners to make changes or updates once their site was finished?

While I found partial solutions to these problems via Web templates and Content Management Systems, no solution offered business owners the ease of use and the control over their Web sites that I wanted for them. Then came XSitePro! The best thing since Starbucks, sliced bread and peel-and-stick envelopes!

Now, because the learning curve for XSitePro is minimal, my customers can update their own sites easily. Yippee! They are no longer reliant on me to make changes, add new pages, update events and generally care for every aspect of their Web site. So, it saves them money on maintenance costs!

And, no, this does not put me out of business, because there are always the bigger changes (and challenges!) that require knowledge of HTML, CSS, scripts, forms and so on. But it gives my clients a way to make the everyday changes to their Web sites: post their newsletter, change event dates, update prices, announce sales, add a new product page, put up a photo of their new baby, etc.

AND... and this is a big one...

Putting Google AdSense and affiliate links on Web pages is so easy with XSitePro that creating multiple income-generating sites was now a new possibility for customers that would never have been able to afford it before. And since XSitePro publishes flawlessly to subdomains, hosting costs could stay the same. Hurray!

And, using XSitePro, they could even build their own sites... as long as they could find high quality templates. Ah, but there was the problem...

Once I realized all the benefits to XSitePro, I started looking around for professional pre-made templates my clients could use. Oh, oh, not much to choose from... and the quality really varied! Would my customers be happy with the choices? As it turned out, no, they wouldn't. I could see that custom templates would be needed. So I built them... and my clients loved them! Why? Because I built them with all the attention to detail, the care, the careful colour choices, the high quality graphics and the Internet marketing sense that I bring to all my projects!

There will always be a place for full-blown custom Web sites built in Dreamweaver. A busy doctor in private practice isn't going to want to build nor update their own Web site... plus, their budget will include full Web design services. But for many small businesses, home-based businesses, affiliate marketers, hobby enthusiasts and people testing online marketing with their products or service, XSitePro, coupled with a professionally-designed custom XSitePro template, makes all the sense in the world.

Now, at this point, you're probably thinking, "Wait, there's more to the story than that! Ah, yes... well, much as I love them, XSitePro and a terrific XSitePro template do not actually make an online business all by themselves. You need something to sell, a domain name, hosting, marketing advice, and a support group. A domain name is easy. Go to 1and1.com and you can buy one for $8.99 a year ($4.99 for the first year!), no restrictions, no funny stuff. For hosting, I can hands down recommend HostGator. All the rest you can find by joining the XSitePro forum. It's even better than Starbucks, although if you're like me you'll want to take your laptop with you and drink your latté while you browse the forum. You can get the best of both worlds that way.

About Andrea Wilson

Andrea Wilson has more than 30 years of computer experience, including 17 years of customer service, management and software support. She holds a Web Publishing Certificate from Langara College, Vancouver, B.C. Andrea is a member in good standing of iCop (now the Chamber of Commerce on the Web).

Able Webs
#117-2484 Wilson Avenue
Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada
V3C 0A5

Phone: 604-468-4992 (I will pick up the phone myself unless I'm out of the office!)

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