Artisteer

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

Extensoft Artisteer
Developer(s)Extensoft
Stable release
4.2.0.60623 / November 4, 2013 (2013-11-04)
Written inC#
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows, Mac OS
Available inEnglish, German, Danish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Japanese, Arabic, Chinese, Polish, Russian
Typeautomated WYSIWYG editor
LicenseProprietary
Websiteartisteer.com

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, 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 was released on June 2011. The current version is Artisteer 4.3 which was released August 27, 2014 for Windows.[1]

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 can also create tableless layouts. The created code complies with W3C standards. Artisteer allows users to preview websites in various browsers.

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.

Automation

Artisteer can 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.


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Version history
Major Version Platform Release Date Significant changes
1.0 Macintosh, Windows September 2008
  • Initial Release
2.0 Macintosh, Windows March 2009
3.0 Macintosh, Windows June 2011
  • Support for fluid layouts (re-sizable sheet width)
  • Added transparency areas for various graphical effects
4.0 Macintosh, Windows September 2012
  • Support for plugins
  • Support for HTML5 and CSS3
  • Support for Mobile Devices
  • Support for Google Web Fonts
4.3 Windows August 2014
  • Support for Joomla 3.3 (Joomla 3.4 since March 2015)
  • Support for WordPress 3.9
  • Lightbox issue fixed
  • WordPress - Slideshows stop working with Form Maker plug-in
  • Joomla 3.3 - fixed Responsive issues
  • Fixed issues with "Position" control in Responsive mode
  • Fixed issue with custom export plugin
  • Change default joomla version in the export dialog to 2.5 -> 3.2-3.3
  • Fixed other minor issues and bugs

Language availabilities

Artisteer is available in the following languages:

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

Features
  • Visual editing of website templates.
  • 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.
  • Manual configuration of design elements
  • The finished design can be 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.
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See also

References
  1. "Artisteer Web Designer - Product Download". www.artisteer.com. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
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