Artisteer

Artisteer is a WYSIWYG website theme creation tool developed by Extensoft.

Artisteer automates creating Web templates, including a "Suggest Design" button, which randomly generates Web design and displays the design PREview. The user can then adjust the design using variety of options, and export the design as either a Web template in XHTML and CSS format, or a WordPress theme.

Artisteer is available for the Windows operating system.

The first version of Artisteer was released in September 2008. Artisteer version 3.0 (current version) was officially released on June 2011.

Overview and features

As an automated WYSIWYG editor, Artisteer hides the details of pages' HTML code from the user, making it possible for non-coders to create web templates and blog themes. The application makes it very easy to create table-based layouts. The created code complies with W3C standards. Artisteer allows users to preview websites in many browsers, provided that they are installed on their computer.

Unlike other HTML editors, Artisteer does not create fully functional Web sites, but CREATES Web templates that are then to be either manually integrated with a Web applications or applied to a CMS system. Artisteer also provides an option to export Wordpress themes, which do not require further mordifications and can be applied to a Wordpress system by copying them directly into Wordpress "themes" folder.

Automation

Artisteer allows for some automation of web design in the sense of being able to successfully assemble a usable Web template from random elements without user intervention. The user invokes the automation feature by selecting the "Suggest Design" option, and can then review the suggested random design. Theoretically this method can produce an unlimited number of original Web designs.

The term "Web Design Automation" (a registered mark of iRadek Software), is now more and more commonly being used to describe these and other forms of software that essentially remove the need to perform many of the traditional task associated with web design and web deployment.

Version history

Language availabilities

Artisteer is available in the following languages:

English, German, Danish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Japanese, Arabic (Middle Eastern version), Chinese, Polish and Russian.

Features

• Visual editing of website templates.
• The product installation package includes a wide variety of graphic elements such as backgrounds, TEXtures, effects, and photos.
• Allows a user to create a web site design and/or web site template, simply by pressing the "Submit" button.
• The design elements can also be configured manually.
• The finished design can be quickly and easily exported to artisteer.net or to several popular CMS like Joomla!, WordPress, Drupal, Blogger, DotNetNuke. Alternatively one can just get the HTML code.
• The output of the finished design is compliant with "XHTML 1.0 Transitional" and contains validated HTML and CSS conforming to the W3C web standards.
• The finished design looks the same in all modern web browsers.

Disadvantages

• What looks like Astroturfing makes it difficult to find reliable reviews of the software.

See also

• Web design
• iWeb

External links

• Artisteer Official site