| Developer(s) | Extensoft |
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| Stable release | 3.0.0.41778 (July 19, 2011) / July 19, 2011 |
| Written in | C# |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS |
| Available in | English, German, Danish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Japanese, Arabic, Chinese, Polish, Russian |
| Type | automated WYSIWYG editor |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | artisteer.com |
Artisteer is an automated WYSIWYG website creation tool developed by Extensoft. Artisteer allows users to create unique and customized website templates and blog themes.
Artisteer differentiates itself from typical HTML editors and Web design products but incorporating high degree of automation and creating Web templates rather than individual HTML pages. For example, a user can create Website design with the "Suggest Design" button, which randomly generates usually a professional looking Web design and displays the design preview. The user can then adjust the design using variety of options, and export the design as either a Web template in XHTML and CSS format, or a set of theme files for the WordPress open source blog publishing application.
Artisteer is available for the Windows operating system. The program incorporates support for web technologies such as CSS and XHTML.
The first version of Artisteer was released in September 2008. Artisteer version 3.0 (current version) was officially released on June 2011.
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As an automated WYSIWYG editor, Artisteer hides the details of pages' HTML code from the user, making it possible for non-coders to create web templates and blog themes. The application makes it very easy to create table-based layouts. The created code complies with W3C standards. Artisteer allows users to preview websites in many browsers, provided that they are installed on their computer.
Unlike other HTML editors, Artisteer does not create fully functional Web sites, but creates Web templates that are then to be either manually integrated with a Web applications or applied to a CMS system. Artisteer also provides an option to export Wordpress themes, which do not require further mordifications and can be applied to a Wordpress system by copying them directly into Wordpress "themes" folder.
Artisteer appears to be the first automated Web design product in the sense of being able to successfully assemble a usable Web design from random elements without user's intervention. This might also classify Artisteer as one of a few commercialized artificial creativity concepts. The user invokes the automation feature by selection "Suggest Design" option in the product and reviewing the suggested random design. Theoretcially this method can produce unlimited number of original Web designs, however, in the first product release many designs have similar look.
| Major Version | Platform | Release Date | Significant changes |
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| 1.0 | Macintosh, Windows | September 2008 |
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| 2.0 | Macintosh, Windows | March 2009 | |
| 3.0 | Macintosh, Windows | June 2011 |
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Artisteer is available in the following languages:
English, German, Danish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Japanese, Arabic (Middle Eastern version), Chinese, Polish and Russian.