Creating Templates with Artisteer

Why pay for a professional website when you can do it yourself with this hands-on guide to Artisteer? With no need for HTML, web-programming, or drawing skills, this book is all you require to create fantastic CMS templates.

Overview

• Prepare and install professional looking templates for popular CMS systems, such as WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, DotNetNuke, and other platforms
• Design website templates with ease
• Step-by-step guide through the features of Artisteer to design website templates

In Detail

Designing good looking, professional quality web templates or building your own website are rather complicated tasks, demanding a lot of technical and graphical expertise. Artisteer has changed this situation, enabling you to do it by yourself, without the need to learn skills such as HTML, web-programming languages, or drawing.

"Creating stunning templates with Artisteer" is a practical, step-by-step guide that will show you how you can prepare an elegant, professional looking website, on your own, using features of Artisteer. It also describes the process of designing templates for various popular CMS platforms like WordPress or Joomla!, by giving you practical hints, showing how to install those templates and how to import the content into CMS.

"Creating stunning templates with Artisteer" leads you through the process of designing a website, including all standard layout elements, from header to the footer, including menus and special boxes. You will learn how to prepare the templates, store them and export them in the form of ready-to-use HTML pages or packages that can be installed in various CMS platforms such as WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, or DotNetNuke. The last part of the book shows you some tips and tricks that allow you to extend standard themes generated by Artisteer for enriching the website with image gallery, combining two menus, and more.

You will learn how to create a professional quality website or CMS template on your own, with the use of Artisteer with minimal technical difficulties.

What you will learn from this book

• Design a complete website template in Artisteer
• Modify all the elements of an Artisteer project, like menus, header, layout, and so on
• Prepare templates for WordPress, Joomla!, and other CMS systems
• Import content from template into the CMS system
• Get direct access to pictures from Flickr to enrich your content
• Use specific Artisteer CSS classes to change the look of modules directly in Joomla!
• Modify generated code to achieve some interesting effects, that is, a photo gallery with a lightbox effect

Approach

"Creating stunning templates with Artisteer" is a practical, step-by-step guide which will show you how to create professional-looking websites on your own.

Who this book is written for

This book is great for enthusiasts, Artisteer users, and individuals who want to create professional-looking websites without paying for professional services and expensive tools. The book also shows you how to speed up your work and automate time-consuming tasks.

Jakub Sanecki is an experienced web developer and programmer, with over 11 years of experience. He was born in 1977 in Poland. In 2001, right before graduation (he graduated in company management) he founded Fregataa company where he works until today, and took up his true passion, information technology. Starting with providing services related to a popular ERP system, the company evolved in the direction of programming services and custom software development. With the increasing popularity of the Internet, it concentrated on web applications' and websites' development. Author of many web and desktop applications, Jakub works as an independent IT consultant and freelancer, realizing projects of various size and complexity, for companies of various sizes. He also provides training courses related to IT and web technologies and the techniques to use them in the company environment. For some years he worked as a university teacher, teaching web and desktop programming. Fregata is an authorized reseller of Extensoft. You can visit www.szablonik.net, as it provides support and additional information about this software tool. Privately, a husband and father of two children, Jakub lives with his family in Sosnowiec (in Poland), spending little moments of free time playing piano or reading books.