If you build the theme with two sidebars and you only have one on some pages - you get an empty section instead of the main body content moving over to utilize the free space. The most significant problem is that the designs are very fixed. The exported themes, however, do not appear to work except in very strict circumstances. It is very simple to play around with the look and feel of the site and will save hours of design time. I've tried out the Artisteer demo and really liked what I saw. Brief review is at - a more thorough review in the next few days after I've used it some more. On the other hand, it really lets you build themes that are nice-looking with very minimal effort - but they're not really well-built themes yet, and are missing some of the flexibility you'd really like to have. If you ever wanted to have, oh, say, ads on your site, or any sort of customized block structure besides sidebars, you're going to have to put that in by hand. Only the most simple regions are built in the theme. And once you start trying to use panels, etc. So the themes end up not acting like real normally-healthy Drupal themes. That is, it does some really odd things re: assigning menus, how blocks are built, etc. Some things it doesn't seem to do at all, or well -Ī. But it also seems to have some serious issues, at least in the current release. Yes - it has some nice points for generating simple blog-style templates. Ive played around with other 'template generators' but none ive seen have the wysiwyg, quality, and options of this one.
IMO it's easily worth the cost- the time savings for me will be huge.
If i had to try and do this in photoshop (i'm an excellent photo retoucher & restorer, but my graphic design skills are pathetic) it would take me DAYS to try the different things i just ran through with that tool. It's nice that it can save me some time doing that, but it's the fact that I can easily play with things like tabs, buttons, block designs, even drop down menu styles, as easily as i can edit a word document that's the TRUE value. I'm used to turning oswd designs into themes. To me the fact that it can generate a drupal theme is the least of it's capabilities. I'm downloading it now- i'll post back after i take it for a spin.ĮDIT: i just took it for a test drive - O.M.G! This thing is amazing for the graphically challenged. Wow- this could be a boon for those of us drupalers that don't have an artistic bone in their body! Yes it generates a bland cookie cutter style, but for me it looks worth it for the graphic / css elements alone- i can jazz it up with different regions and tpl files and extend it for other modules myself.
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