Artisteer Review: The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread?
We think so! Every now and again, a new technology or software component surfaces and sets a new paradigm for the industry. We sincerely believe Artisteer is such a product.
With 1 click simplicity , you can generate beautifully designed, eye catching, color-matched themes that can be imported directly into your website. At AeroHOST, we have designed our Masterise™ CMS system to fully support the use of themes produced with Artisteer.
So how easy is it? This picture is a screen capture of the very large IDEAS button that generates new designs. If you are able to click that button with your mouse (careful now, wouldn’t want to miss it :), you can generate your own attractive, unique, never-before-seen design. IT’S JUST THAT EASY!!
The theme generator engine generates a random sampling of all the various page elements: backgrounds, headers, fonts, graphics, titles, blocks, footers, etc. Each time you click, a new theme appears before your eyes! It uses graphics for rounded corners, and the designs are all fully cross-browser compatible.
You can forget about the cost and steep learning curve of graphics programs like Photoshop and Dreamweaver, and you don’t need to know anything about CSS, HTML or other technologies. With a price that won’t break the bank, Artisteer is all you need to create a great looking website.
But, aren’t some of the auto-generated themes ugly? We asked ourselves that question, and soon realized there’s more going on there than just a random assembly of components. There’s obviously some very carefully designed code that is very good at matching colors and other elements of design … although some are better than others (a very subjective thing), I’ve yet to see a really bad looking design, and I have literally generated thousands so far in our testing environment - most of which are really great looking .
What if I only want to change part of it? 
Again, no problem, you can tweak any individual element at any time (as in this picture of some of the menu choices), so once you have a theme close to what you want, you fine tune it until it is exactly what you want.
One very cool feature we liked: hold your mouse over a menu effect and presto! … the template will automatically update with that feature applied … move the mouse off the menu, and the template will revert back - what a great way to quickly try things out! Designs can also be saved in a native file format and thus reloaded and tweaked at a later time, before the final design is exported in the appropriate format.
Can I use this with any website? 
Yes, the themes can be exported as straight html/css for use with any website, but there is also full support of directly compatible templates for Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, ASP.net and Codecharge Studio development environments.
An API/SDK is also in the works, so you’ll soon be able to create your own customized template output for any program or CMS.
So don’t take our word for it, click here to get the fully functional ARTISTEER FREE TRIAL and see for yourself.
While you’re at it, check out our sample theme gallery here . If you use our powerful Masterise™ CMS Content Management System, or any regular website hosted on our servers, we’ll provide and install your template choice for you! (here is an actual sample page of an Artisteer theme export for this site, it took about 5 minutes!)