Artisteer is on the brink of development!

The developers of Artisteer have conveyed about a new project, yet to come. Are they going to shut down the Artisteer?  Where will the user go for getting support then?

I think, users should start seeking the alternative of Artisteer. So that their projects wouldn’t go in vain. Browsing over the web, I have found an interesting, and rather fine software, which works similar as Artisteer does, it is the TemplateToaster.
 

I am listing its features that I find amazing-

• BOOTSRAP 3 support
• Themes generated according to the HTML5/CSS3 standards
• Themecheck.org verified
• Generation of ultra responsive themes, which render perfectly on every type of device.
• Generate clean source code for themes/templates
• Provides “theme options” with every WordPress theme it generates
• Theme options include widely used Shortcodes, backup and recovery, SEO options,
• WooCommerce and VirtueMart support for WordPress themes and Joomla templates, respectively.
• Supports two major E-commerce solutions, Magento and Prestashop, along with the WordPress, Joomla and the Drupal.
• It can develop static HTML5 websites too.
• And the designing options are not less than the Artisteer. In fact, more options and flexibility of designing is there in the TemplateToaster. 
• I addition to all technical features, personal support is provided, live chat option is available on the TemplateToaster’s official website.

I have purchased the software after using its trial version. It is a nice thing that the developers of TemplateToaster have not posed any limitation on using the trial version.

Yes, TemplateToaster is the best alternative of Artisteer

I have tried a new software, namely, TemplateToaster. Now, this is my preferred software, I don’t use Artisteer now. I am going to share with you that what things differentiate TemplateToaster from Artisteer, and make it stand out.
 

Bootstrap Powered

The most amazing feature of TemplateToaster that drew me towards it, is the BOOTSTRAP 3 support. TemplateToaster version5, which is the latest version, is Bootstrap powered. The TemplateToaster is such a smart software that understand the need of the hour. In recent times, people want Bootstrap based themes for their websites, because it is one of the key factors of making templates/themes responsive to all kind of devices.
 

Amazing Designing Abilities

TemplateToaster provides greater template designing flexibility. You can draw custom widget areas in a WordPress theme, can design the comment area in your way, and put the stylish labels and badges in the templates, and can enhance the aesthetics of every element with the texture and background options. My words will not be enough to explain you everything about the designing abilities. So, you must try it yourself, if you want to know its abilities in detail.
 

Additional page templates in a single project

You can add desired number of page templates in a project. By default, the additional templates bear the designing of index template, but you can design them differently. This means that a single theme/template carries different layout and styles for different pages of your website.
 

Different designing for different device types

This is an amazing thing that one can do with TemplateToaster. While you can view the designed template in different modes, you can customize the design for each mode as well. It means, three different appearances of one theme/templates can be designed for desktop, tablet, and mobile.
 

WordPress theme options

TemplateToaster provides advanced “theme options” feature with all the themes generated with it. When TemplateToaster generated theme is installed in WordPress, which include “SEO options”, “Backup and Recovery” option, “Maintenance mode” options, all the theme options are shown in the following screen-shot.

 

Follows coding standards

TemplateToaster generated themes occur mess-free in code. It generates code in a legitimate way, hence it produces optimized themes. Plus, TemplateToaster perfectly follows the coding guidelines defined by WordPress. I have done a test on it with the Theme Check plugin, therefore, I am sure about the best quality of this software.
 

Updated regularly

The developers do keep their software up to date, they bring updates after regular interval. Regular updates ensure that a software will get more advanced with the passage of time. Whereas, the lazy update schedule leaves the impression on users that the software is towards extinction, as is the case with the Artisteer. I have heard that developers have stopped the development of the Artisteer. They are about to launch something else that is not the successor of 

Artisteer.
 

So, I feel like I have taken the right decision by making TemplateToaster my new development partner. I will recommend all my designer fellows to have an experience of designing templates with this software, it is really an appreciable software.

Is Artisteer Dead? People Have Many Issues

There is a fat user community of Artisteer users, I also belong to the same. When had its trial for the very first time, I bought it just after that. But now, after having experiences with this tool, I am over with it. There are more users like me, who have issues with Artisteer. Having to converse with the many of the Artisteer users, I have drawn some major problems associated with this tool. 

Messy Code is the Biggest Problem

The biggest issue is related to the source code. Because, it is an automated template engine, we don’t expect the preciseness of source code as of a human programmer, but we really do expect that it would generate cleaner code. There must me corrections done in its code generation mechanism, so that we could get cleaner code.

Speed Problem- Artisteer Interface Freezes Often and responds very slow

Another problem that has been encountered often is freezing interface. The tool freezes all of sudden while working with it. It feels very annoying. It is not the problem only with me, also many of the users faces the same problem. Further, to see the effect of any option applied, I have to wait for two minutes.

Design Options are the same- No interesting options are available

We expect better designing options. Artisteer has the same options as we have seen for long. One, the Artisteer developers don’t bring us the regular updates; another, we don’t see noticeable improvements in the designing options. No doubt, it has many options, but in recent times they are not enough. We want enough designing options.

Issues in responsiveness- sometimes templates don’t render fine on devices

Many people have the issues with responsiveness. Artisteer acclaims for being responsive, but in actual usage, sometimes it fails in delivering the quality. There are several users like me, who have experienced this problem more than once.

Lazy Support- seems like Artisteer doesn’t care of its users

The users don’t often get timely response from Artisteer’s side. It is difficult to figure out that why users are ignored when it comes to providing them support. Most of the users belong to non-technical community, hence, they get struck despite of no use of code.

In the end

Owing to the no response from the team Artisteer, it seems that it is no more active, it is dead!.

Related Links:

TemplateToaster and Artisteer Feature Comparison
 

Are You Searching For the Alternative of Artisteer?

You are not the one, who wants to have the alternative of the great marketplace, there are many. I know many such people.
 

Why do people don’t like the Artisteer ?

There is a fat user community of Artisteer users, a big share of the community has the irritation due to some drawbacks of this software tool. The biggest problem is regarding the development. No new version comes for a long. And when it comes, comes with the bugs, initially. The support system is not that good, live help is not available.
 

Let us come to the point. It is more important to let you know about the alternative of 

Artisteer than discussing about the drawbacks.
 

The TemplateToaster is a better alternative of Artisteer

I don’t know whether you’ve heard of TemplateToaster or not. It is an awesome software, rather advanced and progressive unlike the Artisteer. It has all the features that you will like.

What is the best about TemplateToaster?

The best things about the TemplateToaster are-

• Produces lean code
• Supports bootstrap3
• Continual development
• Live help with personal support
• Forum questions are replied regularly
• Flawless compatible with the utmost plugins
• More designing options, like interactive labels, badges, and alerts can be created
• Ultra responsive templates owing to bootstrap support
• Its style editor and JavaScript editor have the code hinting feature
• Users’ issues are resolved spontaneously
• Moreover, you can build a static HTML5/CSS3 website also

More features and working can be known by you by having its free trial. It is worth to buy this software.
 

We have derived the conclusion after comparing features and working of both software. You can see the feature comparison in my previous post.
 

Takeaway

The TemplateToaster is a better software than Artisteer. You should try it if not done earlier. The bootstrap3 support and HTML5/CSS3 coding standards are technically sought after features of a theme generator. So, the TemplateToaster is the best choice, you can make.
 

Leave your reviews about both the software to help us know about the downside and the benefit of each one.

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TemplateToaster and Artisteer Feature Comparison

Why I Chose TemplateToaster Over Dreamweaver

The TemplateToaster is a two-in-one software tool, used for web designing and development, both. I came across this software a year back while browsing the web for latest web development tools. I felt this software impressive at a first glance, so after having it free trial, bought the activation key. Recently, I have upgraded my old version 4 to the version 5.

Before, I switched to the TemplateToaster, the Dreamweaver was my choice. I have done some projects with the latter one. It is nice for providing developers with IDE (Integrated development environment). I wouldn’t say that the Dreamweaver is a good tool, but the TemplateToaster has more benefits for me than this.
 

Automatic code generation for common elements and a little more

The TemplateToaster is a very different software from the Dreamweaver. It is completely based on the GUI (Graphical User Interface), except the style-and-script editors. This tool actually falls in the category of code generating, I know several people belonging to the website development, who criticize such software for the low quality of the code, but I don’t agree with them all the time, because it is not true in the case of the TemplateToaster. You may check its output for ensuring about semantics.
 

I don’t have to manually put the media queries for making templates ready for all display devices
 

Because this is a responsive software tool, I don’t need to write media queries manually. They are automatically generated. Further, if I ever need to add any condition, I do it easily because the code files can be opened up and edited any time. Yeah, one more thing I must let you know that once a template exported and installed on the content management system, it can be reopened for editing again in the user interface.
 

It can be a good partner of a front-end designer

Of course, it is much easier to use than the Dreamweaver for designers. Because, they just have to pick the options to make their designs, at the back-end, the code automatically gets generated. Therefore, I say that this tool is very much helpful for them. Apart from this, they get the technically robust code generated for their designs without actually having to write code.
 

It provides lighter environment for development

If you also have used adobe Dreamweaver, you must know that it is a heavy weight program. The TemplateToaster is a light weight program (139 KB), and requires .NetFramework4 plus windows operating to run properly.
 

It has the style and script editors with code hinting

It has inbuilt code editors with code hinting feature. They are given for adding external styles and scripts to the templates apart from its own styles. That is why, I say that it is not like other ordinary code generating tools, which are meant for the ignorant people follow DIY (do it yourself) way.
 

The utmost favor it does- saves a lot of time

I like to use this software for reason being time-saver. The code files automatically gets generated in seconds that otherwise have to be written by hands. And, the benefit of knowing coding is that, I can inspect the code myself and can edit as well. When I feel like, I should add more styles to the design, I do with the editors.
 

In the end

I don’t say that the Dreamweaver is not good, but I say that the TemplateToaster is far helpful to me. I feel that despite criticism, such tools as TemplateToaster are going to prevail in the near future. May be, we will see that, website development is being done by everyone, like all do with MS-Office.

TemplateToaster and Artisteer Feature Comparison

 

We have been observing more searches about the alternative of Artisteer these days. Luckily, we have that sought after alternative that is the TemplateToaster. The TemplateToaster is truly a capable web design software. Have a look at the features comparison chart.                                                        

Features	TemplateToaster	Artisteer
Bootstrap code	The TemplateToaster supports bootstrap3.	No bootstrap support.
Updates	The TemplateToaster brings updates at regular intervals. You can see the changelog.	The Artisteer brings updates very late.
Code quality	The developer trust the quality of code generated by the TemplateToaster.	The Artisteer generates heavy lines of code that is why professionals don’t make very much use of it.
CSS Editors, JavaScript Editors	TemplateToaster provides code editors with “code completion” feature.	The Artisteer has the simple code editors with no special features.
Support	Responsive support. The support team of TemplateToaster provides solutions to the problems timely and personal. The TemplateToaster provides the live chat option.	The support team of Artisteer provides late support. They don’t provide the live chat option.
Development	Because the TemplateToaster comes with new and improved features after regular intervals, it is in active development state. The team keeps updating changelog.	Because of non-availability of updates for long, the Artisteer is in inactive state.
Design features	Comparatively, the TemplateToaster provides more designing options. To know the detail, have its free trial version. The exceptional design features of TemplateToaster include:     Widget/Modules/ Blocks   The option to draw the custom widget area anywhere in the template design is the exceptional design option of TemplateToaster.         Page Templates One more amazing option provided by the TemplateToaster is the multiple page templates.	Artisteer has old designing options.       Limitation of widget area Unlike TemplateToaster, the user can’t make custom widget areas.   Page Templates     No option for making page  templates.
Support for CMS	The TemplateToaster supports WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, Prestashop, and Blogger.	The Artisteer supports WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, DNN and Blogger.
Languages Available	English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Finnish, Polish.	English, German, Danish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Japanese, Arabic, Chinese, Polish, Russian
Popularity	Owing to the versatility, the TemplateToaster’s popularity is increasing with every passing day.	The Artisteer is still famous, but due to inactive development, the popularity is decreasing.
Theme Option	Users can tweak the appearance of the theme even after exporting it, because the TemplateToaster provides the “theme options” for tweaking it while installing on the WordPress. The options are given in clean header-tab format.           SEO options The TemplateToaster provides SEO options for making web pages optimized for search engines. Backup And Recovery The sought after feature of the TemplateToaster is one click backup and recovery from the designed templates.	Artisteer also provides the theme option while installing the theme from the back-end, in a list form. ·                           No SEO options The Artisteer doesn’t provide SEO options.    Backup And Recovery No Backup and Recovery is provided by the Artisteer

From the above chart, it is very clear that the TemplateToaster has more features and options, which make us to conclude that this web design software is advanced than the Artisteer. Plus, Artisteer is not in an active state, its development team might be busy somewhere else. I would suggest to the users to try the TemplateToaster, because the Team TemplateToaster is very active and continually working for taking their product to the new heights.