Artisteer - Custom Niche Wordpress Themes

Artisteer is custom theme creator software that allows users to create themes for content management systems like drupal, joomla, wordpress and blogger. You can also create HTML/ASP & DotNETNuke templates using artisteer. If you just want to create wordpress & blogger themes then Home & Academic edition is enough. You can choose from various default suggestions for your wordpress theme or you can manually edit every aspect of your theme. Professional edition is only useful for you if you want to create themes for other content management systems or if you want to create HTML/ASP templates.

Ease of Use

Artisteer is designed for those who don't want to get their hands dirty with CSS/PHP code. That's why it is very easy to use this software. If you want instant themes then there are various color/design suggestions available that you can use. Changing theme preference and modifying theme is extremely easy and you can even get a preview of how your theme looks like after modification. This is so easy that you don't even need documentation for learning how to create & edit themes.

You can export your theme in ZIP file to upload to your wordpress setup. And if you're building blogger theme then you can upload theme from the artisteer itself which is very handy feature.

Artisteer Layouts

Artisteer allows you to choose theme from various column layouts like - single, two-column, three column layout. You can choose where to keep your sidebar in your theme. You can even put your sidebar at the top or bottom of your content by making your theme single column. Like this there are various layouts which you can experiment with.

Suggest Design Feature

Artisteer has ideas button that let's you see various default design suggestions. Once you like the theme of your choice you can edit it as per your preference and export it to zip file.

Designer Options

Depending on the type of edition the options available to you will vary. Home & Academic editions have limited options whereas Professional edition comes with all the features that are missing in home edition. Both edition have one limitation that is - Fixed layout. This makes it hard for you to have fluid width themes. Though you can choose the width but there is no way you can make it fluid.

Theme Loading Time

The default suggestions for themes make themes with lots of images and items. This increases the loading time of your theme and that's why you need to edit your theme to strip out unnecessary items. It's possible to even design minimalistic themes with artisteer which you should do atleast once to understand how artisteer works infact that's the only you'll learn about artisteer.

If you want program only to create wordpress or blogger themes then Home & Academic edition is for you. If you're a developer and want to create themes or skins for multiple content management system then Professional edition is beneficial for you. Don't just rely on this program because you've to edit the default theme in such way that you can keep tab on loading time. If you just want minimal or magazine style themes from this program then you'll be disappointed with this program. In that case either you've to edit themes till you get minimal interface from it. If you're creating niche blogs or want instant themes for your blogs then Artisteer is for you.

Download Artisteer to create niche wordpress themes.