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To those designing WP themes

by enterpryzman
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I want to learn to create sites and am thinking about Artisteer, am curious if anyone here is using it and if it is as easy as it looks. Keep in mind that I am a computer moron and can point and click but know nothing about building sites.

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  • Profile picture of the author enterpryzman
    Has to be someone....if not, what are you using to design the wordpres themes ?
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  • Profile picture of the author JustVisiting
    You can download an unrestricted trial version and try it out.
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  • Profile picture of the author WillDee
    Originally Posted by enterpryzman View Post

    I want to learn to create sites and am thinking about Artisteer, am curious if anyone here is using it and if it is as easy as it looks. Keep in mind that I am a computer moron and can point and click but know nothing about building sites.

    Enterpryzman
    Artisteer is an excellent tool for creating *themes* for sites based on WP, Joomla, drupal, etc, but it's not going to build the entire site for you. You'll still need to learn to use whichever blog engine/cms effectively for it to be of any use to you. However, Artisteer itself is well worth the money if you're going to be building a number of blogs/sites yourself.

    And yes, it is as easy as it looks.
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  • Profile picture of the author ayaw
    I never use Artisteer but I create it manually using PHP code.
    From my experience using those tools to create themes, Yes... It's easy but you have very limited options. If you want full control of the themes, you must learn it.
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    • Profile picture of the author enterpryzman
      Originally Posted by ayaw View Post

      I never use Artisteer but I create it manually using PHP code.
      From my experience using those tools to create themes, Yes... It's easy but you have very limited options. If you want full control of the themes, you must learn it.
      I am sorry to say that I am not smart enough to learn all that.....fairly computer stupid. I am looking for the easiest way tp get started and at least I could make some unique sites via this tool that might stand out from other themes.

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      • Profile picture of the author ayaw
        Originally Posted by enterpryzman View Post

        I am sorry to say that I am not smart enough to learn all that.....fairly computer stupid. I am looking for the easiest way tp get started and at least I could make some unique sites via this tool that might stand out from other themes.

        Enterpryzman
        Hey, don't feel like that mate
        Everyone of course can do it! I believe you can do it too...
        All you must to do is just spend your times to learn.
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      • Profile picture of the author Creadiv
        Originally Posted by enterpryzman View Post

        I am sorry to say that I am not smart enough to learn all that.....fairly computer stupid. I am looking for the easiest way tp get started and at least I could make some unique sites via this tool that might stand out from other themes.

        Enterpryzman

        Not to be a negative Nancy, but why would you consider an online career especially one in creating Wordpress themes if you consider yourself to be "computer stupid"? It seems to me like you are setting yourself up for failure.
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        • Profile picture of the author enterpryzman
          Originally Posted by Creadiv View Post

          Not to be a negative Nancy, but why would you consider an online career especially one in creating Wordpress themes if you consider yourself to be "computer stupid"? It seems to me like you are setting yourself up for failure.
          to clear that up, I am a somewhat brilliant person, very creative and have started/owned several offline companies. I understand a great deal about the internet and marketing and more importantly, have very specific sites that I want done for me.

          I have no desire to sell templates, you have assumed that however, these templates are for my own use which will/should make me depend on others much-much less. The reason I am wanting to work within WP is because it seems fairly easy, even I should be able to do that.

          I own hundreds of domains that are sitting at the moment, some are very valuable and specific search words and terms in very specific markets.

          Hope that clears up what I am doing here, never want to be a designer for hire as I lack the knowledge and time for that and frankly, it could not provide me the income I would need to replace my career....this is all for me.

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  • Profile picture of the author Creadiv
    Enterpryzman,

    Thats cool man, like I said I didn't want to be a negative Nancy.

    So, in my opinion rather than using artisteer I would try to learn what you need to know about web progamming. If you spend a little more time up front educating yourself in markup and web programming you will save a lot of time and frustration from the poor quality code WYSIWYG development enviroments generate.

    To start your journey I would learn some simple concepts over at W3Schools Online Web Tutorials. Work your way through the html and css tutorials. They are pretty simple and you will learn quite a bit. After you have those basics of markup down pick up php for dummies (or something better) and read it through. With a basic understanding html, css & php you will be more than ready to do any WP programming that you could want to do.

    Wordpress has great documetation and a large community for support. If you find a theme that you like you will be able to modify it easily with the help of others and a little bit of knowledge on your end.

    Good luck,

    Adam
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