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Creating Templates with Artisteer

By : Jakub Sanecki
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Creating Templates with Artisteer

By: Jakub Sanecki

Overview of this book

Designing good looking, professional quality web templates or building your own website are rather complicated tasks, demanding a lot of technical and graphical expertise. Artisteer has changed this situation, enabling you to do it by yourself, without the need to learn skills such as HTML, web-programming languages, or drawing."Creating stunning Templates with Artisteer" is a practical, step-by-step guide that will show you how you can prepare an elegant, professional looking website, on your own, using features of Artisteer. It also describes the process of designing templates for various popular CMS platforms like WordPress or Joomla!, by giving you practical hints, showing how to install those templates and how to import the content into CMS. "Creating stunning Templates with Artisteer" leads you through the process of designing a website, including all standard layout elements, from header to the footer, including menus and special boxes. You will learn how to prepare the templates, store them and export them in the form of ready-to-use HTML pages or packages that can be installed in various CMS platforms such as WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, or DotNetNuke. The last part of the book shows you some tips and tricks that allow you to extend standard themes generated by Artisteer for enriching the website with image gallery, combining two menus, and more.You will learn how to create a professional quality website or CMS template on your own, with the use of Artisteer with minimal technical difficulties.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

What is Artisteer


Artisteer is an Automated Web Designer. What does it mean? In simple words, it's an application that lets you prepare great websites, even if you don't know anything about drawing, programming, web technology, and all that stuff. With Artisteer, you can design your website, fill it with content, and in the end, generate the ready-to-use HTML/CSS files that you can upload to your web server (in fact, this can also be done in Artisteer). You can also automatically generate any layout in the form of a template dedicated to one of several well-known CMS systems, such as Joomla!, Drupal, WordPress, or DotNetNuke. The design process looks totally different in comparison to the traditional way in which it's usually done. While you still have a lot of control and can decide many aspects of your design, the drawing process is done automatically and doesn't demand any graphic skills from you, except a good eye for what looks good on a page. And it's fast. Indeed very, very fast.

Artisteer was the first application of its kind in the market and still remains one of the best tools in this category.