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We have spoken about Artisteer in the past on how cool Artisteer is, and how it creates custom themese for WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and more. It’s pretty cool and comes in version that are $49 and $129. Its really cool and Iv’e used it before. If you are looking to EASILY make your own WordPress theme. If you can get a cool banner, your website will look awesome. They even have built in banners that look good.
As Artisteer does themes for Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, etc they can’t add some customizations as they can’t WordPress stuff that doesn’t apply to Joomla, etc.
Enter the templateer. This tool is for people who are using Artisteer and are creating WordPress themes. It allows you to add functionality that is not available in Artisteeer, and some of this is actually added so you can adjust them on your website. Thats cool. The best part is it’s only $29.00
If you are looking to create your own WordPress theme. The combination of Artisteer and Templateer are a great combination.
Here is a screen shot of just SOME of the options added to your theme.
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I have been using Carbonite for a while. I love the service except it wouldn’t backup my USB drive that is connected to my computer. It would back up my C, and D drives (both are internal). Along comes mozy for the same price, and low and behold it will back up all my disk drives (internal and in my case – external).
My biggest complaint about Mozy is that when I want to change my configuration it takes close to 3 minutes to bring up the screen (it connects to their website, and other tasks). The tool I am turning on and off is the bandwidth throttle. I love that I can have it set to go wild from 2 am to 7 am, and the rest of the time chill out so it doesn’t effect my computer while I’m using it. It’s not a huge deal, and I won’t be using that once my system is done backing up.
Mozy is offering a 2 GB backup for free.
Artisteer Now Allows Customized Joomla Templates and Drupal themes
In addition to allowing you to customize WordPress themes, you can now create Joomla Templates and Drupal Themes in the latest release of Artisteer. The home version is just for WordPress themes (its 50 bucks) and the Standard edition is $129. There is a free demo from Artisteer. I love this software, and I can allow my customer to login to my webex meeting and watch me make their website right in front of them.
If you want to see some of the sites I’ve created with Artisteer check out
www.shopwurldpodcast.com
www.growyourchurchshow.com
www.beyonddietpodcast.com
If you want a custom theme designed, my web deisgn site is www.coolerwebsites.com
Make Your WordPress Site A Membership Site with No Monthly Fees
I found a plugin for WordPress called Wishlist that allows you to turn your blog into a membership site with multiple levels, secure RSS feeds, integrated shopping cart, and much more. It’s called WordPress Wishlist Member. While there are lots of powerful plugins, it seems the more powerful the plugin, the weaker the documentation. In this case there are 27 videos to walk you through all the great features. A single license of WordPress Wishlist Member will run you $97 and there are no monthly fees. For more information go to wpwishlist.com
