Artisteer Home vs Artisteer Professional – an Aritsteer Review

Have you ever wanted to create a WordPress, Joomla, or Drupal theme, but just did not have the coding knowledge to do it successfully? Are you a web designer who needs a tool that will help you flip websites quickly and easily? Artisteer is here to help.

I have been using Artisteer for a couple of months now, and all I can say is that I am impressed. I can [literally] sit down, spend 10 minutes tinkering with the layout, and export a template to Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, or HTML. In case you are wondering why this is such a big deal, let me explain.

How Artisteer Saves Time and Money

I own a site call Shop Surprise Arizona. The site uses WordPress for News, Joomla for the directory, and custom php for the rating system and Real Estate Portal (uses smarty tpl). I have made MANY design changes to that site, but the time it takes to go from site to site, and edit themes and layouts, it gets exhausting. One tiny modification takes hours of work across the board, and it is sooo annoying tinkering through several CSS files and image folders.  Artisteer actually eliminates this situation, and makes things very easy to update. For me, the only way to go is professional, but if you are only using WordPress, or if you just need a templating system that exports to HTML, then the home edition is great.

Ok, so you’re waiting for a comparison, so here you go.

Version	Home & Academic Edition	Standard Edition
	$49.95	$129.95
Free upgrades for 1 year
Design Suggestions
Design Features
Export as XHTML+CSS
Export as WordPress Theme
Export as Joomla 1.5 Template
Export as Drupal 5/6 Theme
Export as ASP.NET Application
Export to CodeCharge Studio
Custom Value Dialogs
Library of Textures, Glares and Gradients	partial (75%)
Number of Color and Font Schemes	50+	70+
Number of Photo Objects	200+	300+

Ok, so this comparison is directly from the Artisteer website. Like I said, the home edition is well worth the money for wordpress developers. You can add your own color schemes and images, and header images, so it is very robust if you think beyond the basic installation.

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