How to Create a Professional Blogger Template using Artisteer
What is Artisteer – Web Design Software?
Honestly, the combination of CSS with HTML is incredible, but guys who
don’t want to get their hands dirty with some confusing coding could
always prefer Artisteer. It is the first web based automotive web design
software that supports almost all foremost blogging platforms like
Blogger, WordPress, Jhoomla and Drupal. It instantly creates themes and
templates for your website through just drag and drop there is no need
of HTML or CSS coding. Following are few prominent features of this
software.
- Allow you to design incredible web templates not in minutes, in seconds.
- Create different pages for your website using drag and drop options.
- Allows you to either edit an existing theme or create a new one.
- There is no need to learn Photoshop, CSS, HTML or any other web designing language.
How To Create Blogger Templates Through Artisteer:
The First thing you need to do is to Download and install Artisteer. Just like Codelobster
this software is also not a freeware. However, its trial version still
allows you to create, export or import web templates so if you want to
buy a premium version then it’s your choice because trial version works
as good as the paid one.
The installation wizard is quite straightforward, just follow the
instructions as it guides through the installation. Once installations
finishes open the software either from your start menu, or from your
desktop.
Step#1: Creating a New Blogger Template:
After opening Artisteer, the next thing is to create a new template
document so go to File >> New. Now a new wizard will appear asking
you to select a CMS (Content management system). It supports four most
popular CMS system i.e. Blogger, Drupal, WordPress, DukeNetNuke and
Jhoomla. Since, you are trying to create a blogger template, so you
would select the “Blogger” icon. However, you can also work on other CMS
themes. Once done proceed to the next step.
Step#2: Designing the Header:
Now you would be able to see a Simple blog theme, using the custom
functions you would convert it into a professional theme. To start off
you have to design your header area. On the tool bar there is an option
known as “Header” just select it as shown in the screenshot below.
It will provide you numberless option through which you can change the
width, height, background, position and lots of other things in your
header. In fact, you can also use ready-to-use Flash and gradient
background effects. Doesn’t that sound interesting? You can also use
“Suggest Header” tool that assists your design and automatically applies
a design that matches your color scheme and style.
Step#3: Designing a Perfect Sidebar:
Every blog has a sidebar that usually appears either on the left or
right side of a website. On selecting “Sidebar” from the toolbar, it
would provide you a few options. You can change the layout, add two
sidebars, and can even customize it appearance.
If you wish to add two sidebars in your website select “Layout” from the
sidebar menu which would provide you a couple of options such as one
column, two columns and three columns. You can select it according to
your needs.
There are lots of other options like styling and coloring your sidebar.
You can experiment all the functions and can create a new thing every
time you play with them. However, if you have no idea how to style the
sidebar, then you can try the “Suggest Sidebar” tool and this software
would advise a few modifications.
Step#4: Designing an Impressive Post Page:
Post pages are the basic need of a website. Without having a proper post
design your blogs remain empty or incomplete. To design impressive post
pages select “Article” button present on the toolbar. It would take you
to a list of options that can help you in creating an ideal post pages
for your site. You can Change the Heading style, fonts, color,
Blockquote and appearance of your post area.
All tools are there to help you, you can experiment each of them and can convert your theme into a masterpiece.
Step#4: Designing Other Core Elements of your Template:
Footer: You can also create a unique footer area for your site
using the “Footer” button located on the tool bar. It doesn’t have lots
of options for customization, but they are enough to create a decent
footer.
Menu: By default, you get multi-drop down menus, so you do not
code them from scratch. However, you can customize theme accordingly
from the “Menu” button. It has a lot of options for customization.
Background: Using the background tool, you can either upload
image backgrounds or can use the custom gradient color backgrounds. You
can also add texture to your background using the same tool.
Layout: You can either use full-width layout or can select a
certain width using the “Layout” option located at the toolbar. You can
add border to your layout, texture, and other fascinating stuff to
play.
Step#5: Exporting Your Blogger Template:
Once your template is ready, it is time to export so that you can upload
it on your blog. Go to File >> Export >> Export Template
>> save the file. Remember: The file would be saved in .zip
extension, so you need WinRAR to unzip it. The package would consist of
two files i.e. the main blogger template in .xml format and a folder of
pattern images.
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