
Don't go anywhere near it until you know what you are doing – and this comes from someone who loves the flexibility of the tool in producing super standardised designs. The support team WILL ASSUME YOU KNOW TECHNICAL STUFF. I urge you not to buy it unless you have that knowledge, or someone close by with the skills to help you with it, because when it all goes wrong, their support team will not provide the attention you need to get yourself out of the mire.

You WILL need prior knowledge of HTML and CSS and PHP skills. IT IS MISREPRESENTATION TO SAY THIS PRODUCT IS FOR ANYONE, IT MOST DEFINITELY IS NOT! We’re looking at the population of non-design coders, the mom and pop site builders, the young, the web loving guru in the developing world, all of whom should seriously take a look at this and see if it fits into their small business plans. It will never replace a quality designer of course, but that’s not the target market. Which is powerfully enabling for the graphically challenged. Not only can you build great looking WordPress and generic HTML templates (and soon Joomla and Blogger) but they actually install properly and work as they should. And more than that, it’s the fact that the end result actually works well that impresses us the most. The program takes web design to another level, by offering automated tools which even the most indolent would-be designer can use and understand.

We love what Weather Watcher has to offer, with it’s excellent collection of weather tools for serious cloud watchers, and Joiku, the powerful tool to turn your mobile phone into a wireless WiFi hotspot is also a real attention grabber.īut at the end of the day, we think Artisteer has the capacity to dramatically transform the ease of use of creating websites based around WordPress and other CMS packages. There were rivals for the spot of course. This program, which lets you instantly create great looking CMS site themes, is not freeware, but the utility of the program is such that we simply couldn’t ignore the promise it holds. It’s for this reason that we’ve awarded Artisteer the software product of the year. By that I mean, it was the year WordPress came out of its shell and proved to the world that it could become as much of a mainstay of the Web as say, Paypal or Google.
