If you are thinking about building your own website or blog but have no idea about your website design then Artisteer is for you. Artisteer is a wysiwyg template generator for wordpress, joomla, drupal and also suppots exporting the template in XHTML+CSS which means you can use it for any website without any CMS. It makes website designing a piece of cake. What more, it also promises support for blogger, sharepoint in near future. You can now generate website templates and blog themes on the fly. This is really a dream come true for non-coder bloggers and webmasters alike. It comes packed with a lots built in backgrounds, buttons, menus, clip arts and all. I downloaded the 30 days trial version and I can tell you, its good. And FYI, this is the only quality Wordpress theme generator at the moment which is worth the money.
Artisteer has a very easy layout and anyone with knowledge of basic computer usage can easily use this. At startup, it asks you for the platform you want the theme to be created for. After you choose the platform, the main workspace comes to front with a suggested theme. The best thing is that it has a “suggest design” feature which randomly generated good templates just at the click of a button. To tell the truth, I have seen a lot sites over the internet having far inferior web design than what is produced by the software in “suggest mode”. And the “suggest mode” does not come up with weird combination. All the generated templates do look like well designed web pages. Even if you mess up trying to make changes, you can always press suggest design and Bingo. You have a new cool design. You can even get suggestions for individual parts like headers, color theme, menus etc by pressing the respective suggest buttons so that you can experiment with a particular aspect of a theme after you have fixed a basic theme. The codes generated by Artisteer are valid XHTML and CSS and not junk filled like most automated softwares.
Even if you want an unique theme, there is much room to customize in terms of font, layout, menus, background, header etc. You can change and edit a lot of things and all you need is creativity. You can add your own graphics, menus, background, headers and more. Sure, it cannot give you the customization option you get by free coding. But what it gives is enough for building great professional looking themes for Blogs and Websites. You can save a lot money you spend on buying themes and templates for your sites. Also this software can actually make you money as you can use this to make themes for your clients.So, don’t waste time. I really recommend that you try out the trial version at least. I am sure you will find it great. And for non-coders, all I can tell is I am sure you will buy this one.
Update: Artisteer 2 has been released and is available in Home Edition and Standard edition for 49.95$ and 129.95$ respectively. Also, there is a trial version available HERE. Also here are some tutorials for creating cool themes by Artisteer.
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Artisteer is great program with an easy learning curve for building the template. However, if you don’t own an html editing program to edit it, or know html coding, that presents a problem. Trying Kompozer, a free program, but struggling with it quite a bit. My previous html editing software is pretty much obsolete and doesn’t work with Artisteer.
If your previous html editing program is Frontpage then surely it will be obsolete by now. Haven’t used it for years. Freewares don’t work too well. You can try the Coffeecup s/w though. If you can go paid just get Dreamweaver. It’s the best out there.
NVU is a free HTML editing program. It’s easy to use and should handle most of your standard web editing needs. Artisteer is actually a pretty cool program. I’ve been able to create a brand new Wordpress theme in less than 30 minutes. You can make all sorts of customizations and create fresh new looks very easily.
Dude, my Simple tags auto Tagging is not working. Help!!!
Artisteer is really cool,but their customer support is crap.I have been trying to get some information but they won’t answer me.But if someone writes Artisteer needs to improve or something.They start a full-fledged fight with
them.I’m not a genius about blogging or templates.In fact I know nothing about it.When I asked artisteer how can I sell or retrieve the .html code of the template I’m designing.I didn’t provide me any info about it.
I don’t have any proper knowledge in .html.It will be great if someone can just tell me how to get the codes of templates.