With familiarity comes the risk of taking things for granted and/or only seeing the negative. XSitePro looked like a way to avoid the database and upgrade problems with WordPress. It also looked like an easy way to add features which would require lots of additional coding on our custom code sites.
However, our sites almost always involve the use of a lot of photographs. The custom code was written to make it easy to select a picture on the hard drive, upload it to the server, resize it automatically and automatically create a link from the created thumbnail to the full size picture.
When I tried uploading pictures with SXitePro it was immediately obvious my workflow on the local machine would have to become more elaborate. I would also have to do more work on the server. For example, with the custom code I use Lightroom from Adobe Systems to make a watermarked 640 x 480 pixel image from my original.
With XSitePro I would have had to create the thumbnail too. So, I would have had to upload two sets of pictures and then create the link from one to the other. Lots of boring and time consuming work the custom code lets me avoid.
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