The Silent Avatar Speaks

I decided to write this post after coming across a post from Eric Holmlund who has a very successful blog called "Eric Tips". His blog is primarily for those in the Internet business who are really just stating out, and I have watched him over the past few years build his business, do various joint ventures with other Internet marketers, and continue to build his band of faithful followers by offering good advice, and unbiased reviews of products being offering to the Internet marketing "feeding ground". (sorry.. but that's how I see it) In his post gave a recommendation for XSitePro as a tool to build websites. I checked it out and must say that it certainly has all the features you could want to throw together a website. Which led me to question if these type of products are going to do us web designers out of business. After a bit of pondering I realised that while XSitePro is offering a way to build a site, what it can't do is bring you up to speed with the jargon which is used to interpret how to use it and the knowledge behind that jargon. And therein will be the reason why web developers will be around for a while yet. Though I can see in the future a time where you will simply input all the features you want using a touch screen and your selections will build the site. It has to come. The technology is already there to do it. So just a matter of time. So can anyone build their own website? No. And there will be people who buy this product and through dedication and application will master this software, and there will be others who throw up their hands in despair and hand it over to a web designer. Cest la vie! (can you see the smile on my face?) By the way.. would I recommend it? Yes. If you have made rudimentary websites before and you don't mind taking a learning curve upwards then this could be for you.

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