Many people bought Artisteer because they find it troublesome to meddle with codes and so do I. At that time, I wanted have my own WordPress design template but I don't know how to code in PHP and CSS, so it's difficult to me and I'm not a techie either. Furthermore, I don't want to hire somebody to do for me because I was in tight budget. I'm a kind of DIY person so I searched online for website designer software and after filtering through, I found Artistseer has met my criteria.

My criteria for WordPress Theme Generator

• Less than $100
• Easy to Use
• Value for money
• Make good looking templates
• Adjust and play with elements and properties of the site 
• Stable (very important to me - imagine working your site half way through and it crashes)

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT ARTISTEER

  Artistseer is selling at $49.95 for Home Edition and $129.95 for Standard Edition (with more features). Compared to Dreamweaver and Expression Web,  it's so much cheaper. I can create and customize as many themes as I want. I feel that this software is really newbie friendly. The interface is similar to Microsoft Office 2007.

 Other than exporting as HTML website it also exports themes as other content management system (CMS) like Joomla, Blogger and WordPress for home edition. If you purchase the standard edition, you'll also get to export themes as Drupal, DotNetNuke and ASP.NET as well.

 I don't need to buy themes or outsource web design anymore after having Artisteer. I like Artistseer because of its simplicity in creating themes. It's so easy that even a 8 year old kid can do this.

One of my favorite functions from Artistseer is the 'suggest' feature which really impressed me. Whenever I ran out of ideas, the suggest feature does the job. It works as though it's pumping the creative juice in you. 

It's also preloaded with images and of course you can load your own images too. If you're a newbie in web design and need to make a website quickly, Artisteer can cut down your learning curve and quickly whip out a site for you.

WHAT I DON'T LIKE ABOUT ARTISTEER

Take note that software license fee only valid for 1 year free updates, meaning you'll have to re-purchase it if you want updates. However, you can still able to continue using Artisteer without further updates and at any time should you wish to update again, just buy it at discounted price.

I bought this software for myself after I played with the trial copy and I'm totally convinced by Artistseer with its super user friendly interface and capabilities. I won't even go into great detail, just download a free trial copy now and try it out yourself ;)

Artisteer is suitable for people who:

• just want to create your own templates
• don't know single thing about HTML, CSS, PHP but knows how to use Microsoft Document
• don't want to mess with codes
• want to save precious hours in making templates from scratch
• wish to focus their time in making their content
• don't want to use free templates anymore

What can you do with Artisteer:

• 1 column, 2 column, 3 column layout
• upload your own header images
• font selection
• tweak colors and fonts
• create CMS templates (WordPress, Blogger, Drupal, Joomla, DotNetNuke, ASP.NET)
• create static HTML templates and website (you can edit content right away)
• make simple and clean landing page
• generate web design ideas using 'suggest' feature
• adjust width, margin, radius, shadow and much more...

For only $49.95, perhaps you can invest 2 - 5 themes but for the same price you can also create unlimited themes using Artisteer. Just download and see if it's worth your investment.

Check out some of my designs that I made.