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I recently came across a link to “Web Design Generator – Artisteer,” which I had never heard of before … I had a copy of it given to me, and I have to say that I’m really impressed!

Now, before you rush out and buy this, let’s be clear, because I don’t want to oversell this, or rather, to mis-represent it: Artisteer is not Blend. It is not FrontPage. It is not DreamWeaver. (It’s not trying to be). It’s a template generator, and it does a great job at that. Their website says:

• Design awesome Wordpress Blogs and professional Websites in Minutes
• No need to learn Photoshop, CSS, HTML or other technologies

• Export as Wordpress Theme

And it’s all true. I was able to create a slick WordPress template in just a few minutes, with really awesome integration of my own photos for the header with their watermarks and backgrounds and more, and creating custom buttons and header/menu gradients to match the link colors and all of that sort of stuff is literally as simple as selecting a color. Of course, I didn’t stop there. I spent hours playing around with all the settings and generating color-scheme after color scheme — it was actually fun, and I can’t say as I’ve ever had fun making a WordPress theme before .