Whether you are a web designer, an on-line marketer or just a regular Joe who has a blog or two you’ll know what it’s like when it comes to looking for a theme for your new blog or site. You trawl the web looking at the thousands of free themes available, you download and install some, you play around with them and then decide they don’t do exactly what you want so you’re back to square one. Alternatively you go to a site offering premium themes but find that they are either too expensive for your budget or again, they don’t do precisely what you want.
So what do you do? Yes, you can spend many long hours researching how templates are constructed for your platform and design your own from scratch OR you can use Artisteer, the Number 1 Automated Web Design Software for Blogs, CMS and Portals which generates templates for Wordpress, Blogger, Joomla and Drupal quickly and effortlessly. Now, don’t be mistaken, Artisteer can give you a great looking site, it can’t write your copy so remember that there is no point having something that looks great with no meat on it’s bones.
So what can Artisteer do? Quite simply it allows you to custom design your own theme templates for WordPress, Blogger, Joomla, Drupal and even regular HTML. Every specific can be tailored to look exactly how you want it to look and if you’re ‘design challenged’ then you’ll love it’s random design feature. You simply hit the generate button and it will throw up a design and colour scheme that you can either use straight away or you can then tinker with it to get what you want.
Obviously if you are looking for a professional, custom designed site Artisteer won’t compete with a dedicated web designer but what it can compete on is price. Once you’ve made the small investment in the software you can create as many theme templates as you like; you can have a new custom designed template every month if you so desire it. If you’re creating blogs for different target niches you can quickly produce custom themes for each one and every time you create a custom template you make the software pay for itself, over and over and over again.
You’re probably thinking this software is going to be expensive, the answer is yes and no. If you only use it to create one custom theme then Yes, if you buy the standard edition at $130 it’s expensive but look again at how much premium themes are, anything from $50 -$150 each. the Home user version at $50 doesn’t create templates for the full range of platforms but you still get WordPress and Blogger which may be all most people need. Here’s a side by side comparison of both versions so you can make up your own mind.
More importantly, you can download a fully working trial version of the Artisteer risk free, so you can actually see how easy it is to use. The only restriction is it won’t let you export your template (for obvious reasons!) So what are you waiting for? Try it today!
Social Media. When you hear that term what does it mean to you? Unless you are in the industry you may scratch your head, shrug your shoulders and/or just nod your head as if to suggest you already know what it means. Chances are you don’t care what it means but if you are looking to make money, on-line or off-line, or just build up your brand (YOU may be your brand) then you really should not only care about what Social Media is, you should have at least some idea what it means and how you can use it to your benefit.
This short video from Common Craft distils the essence of Social Media in only a few minutes. My apologies if you have a sudden urge to eat ice cream by the end of it!
There are a wide variety of Word Press plug-ins that are available which add various Social Media features to your website/blog. So whether you want a simple Tweet This link or copy and paste HTML code for your visitors there is pretty much something for everyone out there.
Selfless Mind have released a list of some of the Word Press plug-ins it thinks are worth considering together with an HTML option that can be used on any website (The Word of Mouth Tool we featured recently).
Click Now to download the Selfless Mind Word Press Social Media Tool round-up.
