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Create Fantastic Looking, Unique Website and Blog Templates With ArtiSteer

Nov 22, 2009 by Srikanth ADcloseAuthor: Srikanth AD Name: Srikanth AD
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Artisteer is a prolific web design automation product that helps you easily create fantastic custom website templates and blog themes. With Artisteer you can easily become an expert in web designing, editing graphics, coding XHTML and CSS, creating templates for Joomla, WordPress, Drupal and other CMS in minutes without the need of much technical skills.

Why ArtiSteer?

• Create WordPress theme designs in minutes
• Export created themes to Blogger, Joomla, Wordpress and other Content Management Systems
• Choose and use many included design elements, from backgrounds to photo objects and buttons.
• Design themes without any need to learn Photoshop, CSS, HTML or other technologies

Walk Through

Interface

Artisteer has an easy-to-use interface with a wide range of options to customize the look and feel of your template. The changes you make in the menu options are instantly reflected in the preview. This allows you to change the design or further enhance your template according to you needs.

Suggestions

Artisteer gives you ideas for your template design and elements. It provides you with suggestions for the template design, colors, fonts, background, layout, menu style, header, footer, blocks and button designs. With these options you can change the look of your templates with just a few clicks. Apart from the above it also gives suggestions about how an article should appear on your template. And, most importantly without the need of any software training or knowledge of programming languages like CSS, HTML etc.,

Menu Options

This software has extensive options to customize almost everything on your template. Let me briefly give you an idea of how easy it is to customize your design.

Layout

The layout tab in the menu options gives you with choices to select the number of columns, the page layout – the appearance of the header and menu. And, the positions of blogroll, search, categories and archive blocks. This gives you full control to place theme elements wherever you like, based on your needs.

Articles

The articles tab in the menu lets you customize and format your article structure. Like, the way eleements like headings, margins, date, quotes and text should appear. With just a few clicks you will be able to customize the style and format of your article. It includes options  to change the way comments, tags, categories should appear in posts. Artisteer also has the option of ’suggest ideas’ for each of the tabs to make your job of selecting elements and color schemes much easier.

Export Template

Not just the design, Artisteer also makes exporting your custom template or blog theme to some of the popular content management systems like WordPress, Drupal, DotNetNuke, Joomla a snap.  You can also export your template as an HTML page or for a ASP.NET application in no time.

Conclusion

Artisteer in short makes you an expert in web designing without the need to have much knowledge of coding in CSS or designing and editing graphics in PhotoShop. It makes your job of designing fabulous, unique web templates a snap. It has a wide array of options  for customizing various elements of your template. This gives the user full control over the template design and the look and feel.

If you would like to purchase Artisteer, its available in two editions. One being the Home and Academic Edition with a price of 49.95$ which has some limitations on the overall functionality. Whereas the Standard Edition priced at 129.95$ gives you full control of the software.

You might want to check out a quick demo of Artisteer here. Learn more about the intriguing features on Artisteer web designer here.

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