I don’t know about you, but I’ve been working with WordPress for many, many years, and have greatly admired people who can create wonderful WordPress themes. The most I can do is log into the WordPress admin area and scroll through the different available themes, download one and click “activate”. Badda Bing. Job done. But the free themes always seemed to require customization which was just beyond my simplistic editing (hacking) know-how. I’ve always wondered how the heck people design wonderful-looking themes… are they graphic-design geniuses, or what?
Well, it turns out that you can create great-looking WordPress themes without knowing a lick of CSS, HTML or the latest DOCTYPES. Phew, what a relief, eh?
I recently stumbled across a cool piece of software which lets you create WordPress-friendly themes while customizing things like background graphics, header graphics, number of columns, column width, font size, font type, font color, table spacing and TONS more, all within the “sandbox” of the software. When you’re happy with the look of your theme, you simply export it, upload it to your WordPress “theme” directory and activate it within your WordPress admin area. It was so easy, I had a theme I was 100% happy with uploaded to my blog in about 30 minutes, starting from knowing nothing about theme design or the software.
The software is called Artisteer. I used it to make the theme currently at my 3DTV reviewer blog.
You can download Artisteer and play with it for free (like I did), but any themes you create will carry watermarks. To nuke the watermark, you have to buy the software. For me, it was a no-brainer. I loved the theme I created, and Artisteer saved me having to either learn CSS and WordPress theme design or pay a professional each time I wanted a new theme. With Artisteer I can create as many as I like, for just the one-time registration fee.
To download the Artisteer free trial for yourself, click here.
[disclosure notice: the above link is an affiliate link. If you download the software and end up buying it, I'll earn a commission.]
I hope you find the ability to quickly and easily create your own WordPress themes using Artisteer as much fun as I do!
Here’s a video about creating WordPress themes using Artisteer…
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This original blog post was written by Guy who also writes about 3D technology at the 3DTV Reviewer blog and submitted to BestWebImage as a contributing author. Any errors, typos and “gotchas” are Guy’s not Robert’s. 
Please leave your thoughts on Artisteer, WordPress, CSS, Guy’s writing style or anything else relating to this post in the comments section, below.
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Well I thought this post rocked!
Worked for me! Comments are a little slow coming on BWI…not RWW or TechCrunch size yet!
If that theme at 3D tv reviews is a true indication of what you can do with Artisteer then sign me up. I’ve also always wished I could design a WordPress theme. But I’ve got no real graphics talent and my coding skills aren’t far behind that
it is wonderful to use this WordPress. and it is very useful to you..
Making wordpress themes is also another way of building backlinks coz if lots of users likes your theme and installs it, they might not remove your link below your theme.
I like using wordpress themes and I never thought that making wordpress themes is easy. Thanks for sharing this informative article.
WordPress is so easy to use plus the help of numerous plug ins you can install to your wordpress template
Man and I thought wordpress was gonna be as easy as just simply installing a code. lol
WordPress does seem to be easy but it isn’t. It isn’t difficult to figure out but much easier if you have some guidance.
I have tried making some themes with this very good tool Artisteer provided by you, but I am not able to make a theme which takes my “meta” tags easily in it…Also I have been searching through a plug-in which can integrate the meta tags easily in the code, but found none…
Hi Robert,
Thanks, I will try Artisteer.
Do you have any suggestions for the hosting services?
Hi Robert,
Thanks, I will try Artisteer.
Do you have any suggestions for the hosting services for WordPress?
I’m going to try this as cebu’s idea seems like a good one and I need to increase my traffic!
If that theme at 3D tv reviews is a true indication of what you can do with Artisteer then sign me up. (:
I wish that my web hosting could support wordpress but it don’t. There are so many great plugin that I can’t use to my sites =(
The best themes must have link in the footer. This is very good for SEO.
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yes its to helpfull i am also using this technique.
i have used the software and it’s really easy to create any template you like.