Artisteer

Has anyone heard of Artisteer before?
Is it possible to edit a Zen Cart template in that and then upload the changes?
I use it for making changes to my blog but it can be used as a CSS editor.

I have read on the forums that Topstyle Lite is a good free CSS editor.

Others simply use notepad or notepad + - Personally I use Crimson Editor (which is also free)

If this program you have has a CSS editor as well as able to deal with Php then I should think it will be fine - I think each individual has their own preference on tools of the trade.

This article on the Wiki Zen has a nice list of tools that may be useful to you:

http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.php/Useful_Tools

Hope this answers your question

Thanks, stiggy. I'll check it out.

artister is not a text editor. it's amaizing. it's a vizual builder. notepad is a simple source visualisation and editing tool. artister is like word. it does thing automaticly. it would be a great hit for the zencart users. of course this will probably decrease the sells of the zencart manual.

If it is just like word, I'd advise NOT using it.
Try entering "Hello World!" in word and save as a webpage. Then use something like notepad to view the HTML. You'll see what :censored: most programs throw in that is VERY problematic in Zen Cart.

Hello,

Good news!

Starting from 4.0, Artisteer supports Export Plug-ins.

Can anybody create a plugin for Zen Cart and share it with our community? :)

I think many users here are ready to pay some responsible fee for it ($10-$20?).

http://www.artisteer.com/?p=dev
http://www.artisteer.com/?forum_id=30&p=forum_topics

Thanks,
Bob

wrmhle:

Hello,

Good news!

Starting from 4.0, Artisteer supports Export Plug-ins.

Can anybody create a plugin for Zen Cart and share it with our community? :)

I think many users here are ready to pay some responsible fee for it ($10-$20?).

http://www.artisteer.com/?p=dev
http://www.artisteer.com/?forum_id=30&p=forum_topics

Thanks,
Bob

We've been using Artisteer to create simple (but effective) wordpress themes for about 3 years now, so a zencart version would be really great.

I almost finished. So I publish.

schoolboy:

We've been using Artisteer to create simple (but effective) wordpress themes for about 3 years now, so a zencart version would be really great.

http://www.tktools.jp/shop_en/

Completed.

Currently, while writing the document.
I think I will sell for $ 15.

Artisteer Standard Edition is required to use it.

Is not anyone interested?
Well, I quit to publish.

kino:

I almost finished. So I publish.

i am interested : )

I am interested too... but when I visit your site I do not know what I am looking at. What is that site? Is it a place to buy your module? Is it a demonstration of your module?

You need to tell us what we are looking at, how it works, what we need to do with our existing Artisteer program... How do we get it to work?

You must show everyone how this works... not just put up some website that we get no idea of what is going on.

I sent in artisteer.
But was rejected because not been able to reproduce the design of Artisteer.

However, I think there is no problem to use as a template for zencart.

People who want to test, please send a PM.

I ran into the same issue when packaging Ultimate Fade-in Slideshow for Zen Cart. Dynamic Drive's rules did not allow me to put all of the files in my package, only the modifications necessary to use their files with Zen Cart. Everyone must download the original files from the DD page and add the ZC-specific files in my package.
Of course, this has created a support problem, as I knew it would, with people not understanding exactly how/where to get the original files...

As long as Artisteer does not require purchase, you may be able to do something similar, with a package of the required ZC modifications and very clear directions on where to get the original files and how to merge them.

I was released as a beta version.
It's free.

As a first step in creating a template should work.

http://www.tktools.jp/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=2

dbltoe:

If it is just like word, I'd advise NOT using it.
Try entering "Hello World!" in word and save as a webpage. Then use something like notepad to view the HTML. You'll see what :censored: most programs throw in that is VERY problematic in Zen Cart. Nothing like Word at all (the word comparison is a BAD analogy)

schoolboy:

We've been using Artisteer to create simple (but effective) wordpress themes for about 3 years now, so a zencart version would be really great.I agree.. I too like Artisteer for spining up quick effective WordPress templates.. for something more robust I prefer the WP template frameworks (like Catalyst) It would be AWESOME to see a plugin for Artisteer to support Zen Cart

kino:

Is not anyone interested?
Well, I quit to publish.
Kino I JUST FOUND and tried your Artisteer plugin today.. It works, but not without some SERIOUS massaging of the template it creates.. there are a few things I personally found problematic and if you are still out there I'd like to share my thoughts.. If you reply to this post I shall do so.. I hope you plan to continue this work, but there are some changes that are needed to make this worthy of a free download let alone a commercial one..

Thought I should post my thoughts from my preliminary testing:

This part of your instructions did not see to work, and they may not matter as I see the menu Artisteer generates is not one I will use in Zen Cart (would replace with the CSS Horizontal Menu or the Mega Menu add-ons)

6. add to .htaccess .

---

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^home.html$ index.php [L]

Renamed and moved the following scripts to the proper template jscript template folder:

• jquery.js = jscript_jquery.js (this file is jQuery 1.7.1 current Jquery version is 1.9.1)
• script.js = jscript_artisteer.js
• script.responsive.js = jscript_artisteer_responsive.js

Renamed and moved the following stylesheets to the proper template css template folder:

• style.css = style_artisteer.css
• style.ie7.css = style_artisteer_ie7.css
• style.responsive.css = style_artisteer_responsive.css

Replaced lines 1 - 17 of the default.php file:

<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><!-- Created by Artisteer v4.0.0.58475 -->

<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Home</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale = 1.0, maximum-scale = 1.0, user-scalable = no, width = device-width">

<!--[if lt IE 9]><script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script><![endif]-->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="includes/templates/ZenCartTest1/style.css" media="screen">
<!--[if lte IE 7]><link rel="stylesheet" href="includes/templates/ZenCartTest1/style.ie7.css" media="screen" /><![endif]-->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="includes/templates/ZenCartTest1/style.responsive.css" media="all">


<script src="includes/templates/ZenCartTest1/jquery.js"></script>
<script src="includes/templates/ZenCartTest1/script.js"></script>
<script src="includes/templates/ZenCartTest1/script.responsive.js"></script>

<style>.art-content .art-postcontent-0 .layout-item-0 { margin-top: 10px;margin-bottom: 10px; } .art-content .art-postcontent-0 .layout-item-1 { border-spacing: 10px 0px; border-collapse: separate; } .art-content .art-postcontent-0 .layout-item-2 { color: #141414; background: #FBD593; padding-right: 10px;padding-left: 10px; } .art-content .art-postcontent-0 .layout-item-3 { padding-right: 10px;padding-left: 10px; } .art-content .art-postcontent-0 .layout-item-4 { margin-top: 5px;margin-bottom: 5px; } .ie7 .post .layout-cell {border:none !important; padding:0 !important; } .ie6 .post .layout-cell {border:none !important; padding:0 !important; } </style><link rel="stylesheet" href="includes/templates/ZenCartTest1/css/stylesheet.css" media="screen"></head>

with the following:

<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale = 1.0, maximum-scale = 1.0, user-scalable = no, width = device-width"> <!--[if lt IE 9]><script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script><![endif]--> <!--[if lte IE 7]><link rel="stylesheet" href="includes/templates/ZenCartTest1/style.ie7.css" media="screen" /><![endif]--> <style>.art-content .art-postcontent-0 .layout-item-0 { margin-top: 10px;margin-bottom: 10px; } .art-content .art-postcontent-0 .layout-item-1 { border-spacing: 10px 0px; border-collapse: separate; } .art-content .art-postcontent-0 .layout-item-2 { color: #141414; background: #FBD593; padding-right: 10px;padding-left: 10px; } .art-content .art-postcontent-0 .layout-item-3 { padding-right: 10px;padding-left: 10px; } .art-content .art-postcontent-0 .layout-item-4 { margin-top: 5px;margin-bottom: 5px; } .ie7 .post .layout-cell {border:none !important; padding:0 !important; } .ie6 .post .layout-cell {border:none !important; padding:0 !important; } </style> </head>

Finally the template is not properly calling the common/html_header.php file.. I tried a bunch a ways to get that to work by messing around with the default common/html_header.php file and the default.php file that the Artisteer generated template uses and the result every time was that the common/html_header.php was being called twice.. Just to SEE the template display I ended up using the Artisteer modified common/html_header.php, and copying nearly ALL of the default common/html_header.php contents into the Artisteer generated default.php file (placing the code just above the corrections I made above)..

Now while all of that got the template to display, it doesn't display as I designed it (the header displays full screen though the template center area and header are fixed width). Interestingly enough the header section ONLY displayed correctly when the common/html_header.php was getting called twice.. shrug

Nice start, but clearly needs work.. Though your site states:

This template is only to start when you want to customize.
this is more work than one should HAVE to do using Artisteer.. WordPress templates at least land all the files in the correct locations. At the very least I think that the CSS and JS files need to be named correctly and placed in the right template folders..

I think this is a nice start, but clearly there is some work to do.. I cannot see using this plugin in it's current state on a regular basis at all. Looking forward to seeing some improvements..

One last thing.. the performance of the template is also SLOW!!! However, I think this may be an Artisteer issue as I noticed that Artisteer 4.0 generated templates seem slow too..

DivaVocals:

Thought I should post my thoughts from my preliminary testing:

This part of your instructions did not see to work, and they may not matter as I see the menu Artisteer generates is not one I will use in Zen Cart (would replace with the CSS Horizontal Menu or the Mega Menu add-ons)

Renamed and moved the following scripts to the proper template jscript template folder:

• jquery.js = jscript_jquery.js (this file is jQuery 1.7.1 current Jquery version is 1.9.1)

• script.js = jscript_artisteer.js

• script.responsive.js = jscript_artisteer_responsive.js

Renamed and moved the following stylesheets to the proper template css template folder:

• style.css = style_artisteer.css

• style.ie7.css = style_artisteer_ie7.css

• style.responsive.css = style_artisteer_responsive.css

Replaced lines 1 - 17 of the default.php file:

with the following:

Finally the template is not properly calling the common/html_header.php file.. I tried a bunch a ways to get that to work by messing around with the default common/html_header.php file and the default.php file that the Artisteer generated template uses and the result every time was that the common/html_header.php was being called twice.. Just to SEE the template display I ended up using the Artisteer modified common/html_header.php, and copying nearly ALL of the default common/html_header.php contents into the Artisteer generated default.php file (placing the code just above the corrections I made above)..

Now while all of that got the template to display, it doesn't display as I designed it (the header displays full screen though the template center area and header are fixed width). Interestingly enough the header section ONLY displayed correctly when the common/html_header.php was getting called twice.. shrug

Nice start, but clearly needs work.. Though your site states:

this is more work than one should HAVE to do using Artisteer.. WordPress templates at least land all the files in the correct locations. At the very least I think that the CSS and JS files need to be named correctly and placed in the right template folders..

I think this is a nice start, but clearly there is some work to do.. I cannot see using this plugin in it's current state on a regular basis at all. Looking forward to seeing some improvements..

Tried tested,.. works,.. But it's a great way to completely lose track of what code is generated from where,.. Meaning: if now you want to do minor design tweaks or install various enhanced modules, it will become a real challenge?

Digiwinkel:

Tried tested,.. works,.. But it's a great way to completely lose track of what code is generated from where,.. Meaning: if now you want to do minor design tweaks or install various enhanced modules, it will become a real challenge?

It will if the template generated from Artisteer is used AS IS.. The issue I had was not with the template specific files, but the fact that the template generated does NOT use Zen Cart defaults.. this would make integration with modules and updates somewhat of a nightmare..

I do hope to see more work in this space.. if not Kino then someone else..