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Table of Contents

Table of Contents .............................................................................................................................................2

What is Artisteer? .............................................................................................................................................4

What’s new in Artisteer 2 ..................................................................................................................................5

Product Comparison .........................................................................................................................................6

Quick Start Guide .............................................................................................................................................7

Downloading Artisteer ...................................................................................................................................7

System Requirements...................................................................................................................................7

Installing Artisteer..........................................................................................................................................8

Activating the software ..................................................................................................................................9

How to work with the Artisteer Interface .........................................................................................................10

Quick Access Toolbar .................................................................................................................................11

Keyboard Accessibility ................................................................................................................................11

Creating a Basic Design..............................................................................................................................13

Design Customization .................................................................................................................................14

Dialog Boxes ...............................................................................................................................................15

Color Selector Dialog ..................................................................................................................................17

Working with Colors ....................................................................................................................................18

Block Structure............................................................................................................................................19

Navigation Bar ................................................................................................................................................23

1. Ideas .......................................................................................................................................................23

1.1. Creating Your Design .......................................................................................................................23

1.2. Making Adjustments.............................................................................................................................23

Export Design ..........................................................................................................................................24

Export Options Dialog .............................................................................................................................25

Export Design Options ............................................................................................................................27

2.1. Colors ...............................................................................................................................................42

2.2. Paints................................................................................................................................................42

2.3 Fonts..................................................................................................................................................43

3. Layout .....................................................................................................................................................46

3.1 Page/Column Layout.........................................................................................................................47

3.2 Columns ............................................................................................................................................47

4. Background .............................................................................................................................................48

4.1 Adjust Page Background Options. ....................................................................................................48

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5. Sheet .......................................................................................................................................................50

5.1 Adjust Sheet Options.........................................................................................................................51

6. Header ....................................................................................................................................................53

6.1 Header Layout...................................................................................................................................53

6.2 Background .......................................................................................................................................54

6.3. Foreground Photo ............................................................................................................................59

6.4. Title...................................................................................................................................................60

6.5. Title Style..........................................................................................................................................62

7. Menu .......................................................................................................................................................63

7.1. Menu Styles......................................................................................................................................63

7.2. Menu Bar ..........................................................................................................................................64

7.3. Item...................................................................................................................................................65

7.4. Sub Item ...........................................................................................................................................66

8. Articles ....................................................................................................................................................67

8.1. Shape ...............................................................................................................................................68

8.2. Text Formatting ................................................................................................................................70

8.3. Other elements.................................................................................................................................72

8.4. Header and Footer ...........................................................................................................................74

9. Blocks......................................................................................................................................................75

9.1. Block Styles. .....................................................................................................................................75

9.2. Block Content ...................................................................................................................................83

10. Buttons ..................................................................................................................................................86

11. Footer Tab.............................................................................................................................................89

11.1 Footer Styles ...................................................................................................................................89

Troubleshooting ..............................................................................................................................................92

Glossary..........................................................................................................................................................93

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What is Artisteer?

Artisteer is the first and only Web design automation product that instantly creates fantastic looking website

and Blog templates. It is a powerful software suite that makes YOU a professional designer of websites,

WordPress themes, and blog templates. Artisteer lets you create fantastic looking website designs and

templates in just minutes; without having to know anything about editing graphics or HTML.

With Artisteer YOU immediately become a web design expert; editing and slicing graphics, coding XHTML

and CSS, and creating CMS templates and WordPress themes - all in minutes and without Photoshop,

Dreamweaver, or technical skills.

Use Artisteer to generate cool Web design ideas, adjust the generated designs using many included

elements, backgrounds, photo objects and buttons, create professional, table-free, cross browser

compatible and fully compliant HTML and CSS code, and export your design to create great looking Web

and Blog templates.

Creating great designs has never been easier!

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What’s new in Artisteer 2

Artisteer 2 has a number of exciting new features. The main highlights of this version (as compared to

version 1) are:

Support for creating Joomla templates.

Support for creating Drupal themes.

Support for creating Visual Studio project templates.

Perfectly valid HTML+CSS

Typography and font scaling features

Footer editing features

Support for sheet transparency

Support for uploading custom page background images, glares and textures

Support for block bullets

Keyboard shortcuts for opening and saving files, undo, redo, etc.

Internationalization support. Exported Wordpress themes are internationalized and available in

French, German, Italian and Spanish, with additional languages available from WordPress Website.

New “Export Options” dialog that allows specifying template version, tags, author, and manage

some of the WordPress and Joomla specific options.

An option for custom watermarks if you are creating temporary templates for review by your

customers and want to use our built in trial protection mechanism.

Improved Export Dialog with the ability to specify template name and path as well as export

template to .zip file.

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