Showing posts with label HTML/CSS templates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HTML/CSS templates. Show all posts

Wednesday, 1 April 2015

A Revolutionary Tool for WordPress Designers



“There are a lot of tools present out there for the WordPress designers, but a handful are there that can be called a complete package for the designers, TemplateToaster is one of such tools, we can refer as a complete package for the designers.”
Wordpress design tools

TemplateToaster provides the widest array of options for designing themes, besides a major benefit of automatic code production. That means, a designer will have to design a theme, and the source code of that theme will be produced automatically by the TemplateToaster. Let us explore about this software, starting with its designing capabilities.

Designing Capabilities

You can avail the greater flexibility and freedom for designing professional WordPress themes with the TemplateToaster. Many designers have given positive reviews about this software that is why I made my mind to purchase this. Having had its experience for designing themes, I make recommendation of using this software to my fellows.
It has got everything that we need need, being designers. And, despite of so many options, the interface doesn’t seem cluttered. The options are presented in Ribbon style, and are categorized according to the sections of a standard WordPress theme, such as “BODY”, “PAGE”, “HEADER”, “SLIDESHOW”, “MENU”, “SIDEBAR”, “CONTENT”, “WIDGET AREA”, “FOOTER”, “ELEMENTS”, and to view the responsive layout - “RESPONSIVE LAYOUT”. The options to set background, margin, padding, height, width, typography, texture, shadow, and effect, those are used for detailing, are present in every menu option on the Ribbon. Hence, it is a good software to be used by professional designers. Yet I have not told you about one more interesting feature of TemplateToaster, it is the ability to draw the custom widget areas in the themes.
“Custom widget areas can be drawn anywhere in the theme, which is the exceptional feature and sought after option in TemplateToaster.”
Let us a have a quick glance at other options.
  • You can make custom color schemes.
  • You can include slide-show in themes.
  • You can make full width page templates.
  • You can use custom as well as Google fonts in your designs.
  • You can transform images through image editor.
  • Options to include labels, badges and alerts in the themes.
  • You can add and design more than one page template.
  • Stylish Favicons and social media icons are provided within the software package.
This video will get you more insights.





I want to show you a theme designed by me with the help of TemplateToaster.

Up to this point, I have told you enough about designing options. Now, I would tell you an utmost advantage of this software for a designer.

It will be your best partner as a coder
Usually, the designer only works on the creative part, they don’t know PHP coding, and that is why they work in collaboration with the developers. The best advantage of using the TemplateToaster is that you wouldn’t need to look for a front end coder, who will encode your design, because, TemplateToaster will automatically generate all the code in one click for your designs.
“Freelance designers may draw the best benefits for them from TemplateToaster as they could do projects without being collaborated with the coders.”
A quick heads up of TemplateToaster’s technical features
  •  Produces clean code
  • Supports BOOTSTRAP 3
  • WooCommerce support inbuilt
  •  Follows HTML5 and CSS3 standards
  •  Follows coding guidelines of WordPress

In the end

No PHP knowledge! No need to write code! All you need is to have creative ideas of designing for WordPress themes. TemplateToaster is there as a partner for every designer, which will automatically generate the programming code for your designs.

Wednesday, 11 March 2015

The Best Options to Make Custom WordPress Themes without touching code

There are a number of options of marketplaces on the internet that are selling beautiful WordPress themes. If you want to use such a theme that has not been used by anyone before you, then you can’t rely on the available marketplaces for the reason that so many people visit there and buy the themes for themselves. It is not possible to find a single theme there that has not been bought by anyone. Plus, if you decide to make a theme exclusively available to you, then ready to pay for the giant “buyout” price.


Don’t worry, there is a good alternative of paying the buyout price, DIY (do it yourself). I will tell you the software tools that will help you in making WordPress themes by yourself, without touching code.

WordPress Theme Generators
A complete DIY way is to use a WordPress theme generator. There is an availability of several, it will be your choice only that which one you are going to use to. If you would ask mine choice, then, it is the TemplateToaster. Following is the list of the popular ones.
  1. TemplateToaster- Most Popular and powerful WordPress theme generator. It allows the user to make as many themes as possible to create. With one year license period, updates are provided for no cost up to the period. As per choice, theme can be designed from scratch or can be chosen from the bundle of samples for modification. It will be interesting for you to know about this software, if you download its trial version .
  2.  WP Theme Generator- Yet another good candidate has been the WP theme generator. You don’t need to download it, but it can be used in online mode only. You can simply visit the respective website to know the details.
Theme Frameworks
There are several vendors who are selling their frameworks, which are actually the powerful WordPress themes, but are not installed as they are. A framework provides options, usually in drag and drop form, to change the layout and design elements. Following frameworks are very popular.
  1. Divi Theme
  2. Ultimatum theme
  3. iThemes
  4. DMS Framework from Page Lines
  5. Headway
Which one is better to choose- A theme generator or a framework?
We can’t declare that the theme generators are the best, or the frameworks are the best. Both have their pros and cons. So, it is the matter of personal choice.



Pros of using a theme generator-

  • You can make a unique WordPress theme.
  • No limitation on domain support.
  • You can show your own creativity.
  • You will use the
Cons of using a theme generator-
  • We don’t see any drawback of using a theme generator, especially in case of the TemplateToaster. Might be, in case of free theme generator, you would face problems regarding non-availability of enough of designing options and technical features.

Pros of using a theme framework-
  • You can customize the look and feel of the theme framework according to your needs.
  • You can get the child theme within a couple of minutes.

Cons of using a theme framework-
  • You don’t get an exclusive theme.
  • Limited support for particular domains only.
  • You don’t actually deploy the base theme, but you actually use a child theme.
  • You can’t make unlimited themes from a framework, but you can do this with the theme generator.
 Suggestion and recommendation
I have already told, above, about my personal choice. I think that using a theme generator is the best way, thus, I recommend also. Owing to the robust technical features and a huge designing options, I recommend the TemplateToaster to everyone.

Wednesday, 4 March 2015

TemplateToaster: A Smart Way to Make Themes

If you are tired of writing code for making themes, then TemplateToaster can energize you again. A software meant for making WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, and Magento themes, TemplateToaster gets developers rid of coding. By developers I mean all those who are either into coding job, or want to make themes but not have coding proficiency. TemplateToaster works for multiple CMSs viz. WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Magneto, Prestashop. Plus, it creates for a most loved blogging platform- the Blogger. Besides, it’s an excellent HTML website builder.


You Just Design and TemplateToaster Develops
That’s why I like TemplateToaster, I am able to show my creativity with this. It lets me do designing and takes care of development itself. How? Actually, generation of source code at the back-end is the work of TemplateToaster, and on its interface, it provides me with lots of options for designing. A designer doesn’t merely needs options for colors, shapes and pictures, but wants options for detailing. And this is what TemplateToaster allows me to do. Hence, I am able to make awesome designs. These designs come alive when I export them.

Better Focus on Detailing Than Writing Code
Before the development starts, theme mockup is prepared. Mockup describes the appearance of respective theme. It’s obvious, to exactly tell someone your requirements, you need to have a mockup. It, rather, helps the second person to understand what you want from him to do. TemplateToaster, eliminates this need. The time you are supposed to pay for making the replica, in that time you can make a functional theme. And all you would have to do is detailing and not coding.



Error-less Standard Code Generation
Yet another point supporting my trust on TemplateToaster is that it generates genuine code. Code conformity to standards is important for better running of my themes. Moreover optimized code generation is done. An optimized theme gives rise to optimized websites.

Plug-ins and Browser Compatibility, and Responsiveness
Other matters like compatibility of design with several browsers, compatibility with requires plug-ins, and responsiveness of design are greatly managed by TemplateToaster. The themes produced through TemplateToaster essentially come responsive and compatible with several browsers which are widely used. And most used plug-ins namely Woo-commerce- WordPress plug-in and VirtueMart- Joomla plug-in.

Smart Way because Time and Efforts Both are saved

I have introduced TemplateToaster with the adjective smart. Obviously, I save my time and better focus on design since I do not have to bother about writing code, and my job ends in a few hours instead of some days. So, I refer using TemplateToaster as smart way. As a further matter, TemplateToaster cares about browser compatibility and responsiveness of designs.

It would be interesting for you to know about the TemplateToaster. Get it’s free demo to explore more.

Tuesday, 3 March 2015

Make Your First Website without Learning HTML

99percent people think that to be able to make a website, keen knowledge of HTML and CSS is very important. Otherwise, one can’t do it. But, it is not completely true. In recent times, a non programmer can absolutely go ahead with the making of the website without learning programming languages. 



You need a website builder
Thanks to those advanced software that have made this possible to make websites without writing code. These software are known as website builders, and the best one among them is the TemplateToaster. The website builders are kind of software that provide a GUI interface to design a website by choosing given options. They fall into two categories, online and offline.



Online vs. offline website builders
As you know that to publish your website over the web, you will need a hosting from the provider, whether you make your website yourself or get is done from a professional developer. The online website builders are typically offered by hosting companies, they give the users a little liberty to design its website through click able choices for designing.

On the other hand, the offline website builders are offered by dedicated developers. One example of such a website builder, I have already given you, it is the TemplateToaster. They, offline website builders, happen to be downloadable from the vendors’ websites and they run on users’ personal computer systems. Thus, they are also called web design software.  
   
You can be made within a couple of minutes
Besides, not having to manually write the code, additional interest lies in website builders is of being a time saver. If a website has to make by writing code, it would take a couple of days, might be it take a single day if the website is very simple in style, but a website builder will take you a couple of minutes to design a stylish website.


Suggestions and recommendations

There are two reasons to use a website builder, one- user doesn’t need to learn to do programming, and another- development of a website gets done in short time. Furthermore, it depends on the user’s selection if a website builder can make a professionally finished website. My personal recommendation goes to the TemplateToaster, because it provides a huge number of designing options and in the end it produces such good looking websites as if designed by a professional designer.

Monday, 2 March 2015

The Best Website Builder


There are several website builders, you may find on the World Wide Web, but it is not easy to know, which one is the best among the rest. Every website builder acclaims to be the best one, but actually, you can never know if one is the best until you use that. It has been said that nothing is the perfect or the best in the world and it is absolutely true, but yeah, some things can be near perfect if not exactly. I am going to let you know the qualities of a good website builder.

What are the qualities of a best website builder?


  •     It must generate W3C compliant code.
  •     It must generate responsive website.
  •     Would offer enough of samples web designs as well.
  •     Must have enough designing options including presets.
  •     The Bootstrap support could be one more decisive factor.
  •     The websites it generates perform (in terms of size and speed) very well.
  •     It must follow the latest HTML and CSS standards as have been set by the W3C.
  •     Must be easy to use, after all it is going to be used by a general person who doesn’t know coding.



Online or offline- what is the right choice?

The website builders are mainly categorized into two classes- online and offline. As their classes depict, the online website builders are offered for making their use online only. Generally, they are offered by web hosting providers within their hosting package, or sometimes for free of cost. And, the offline website builders have to be downloaded on personal computer systems to work with. The right choice doesn’t depend on the mode of use, but it depends on whether the quality and performance of the website generated by a website builder are good or not.

Well, I have found the TemplateToaster best for me




Personally, I like the TemplateToaster very much, because it has all the qualities, I have initially mentioned. It generates W3C validated code, follows latest HTML5 and CSS3 standards, offers several nice templates, has the bootstrap3 support, flawless responsive websites are produced by it, and very easy to use. Apart from the technical qualities, I like the developers’ personal support as well. In fact, they have provided chat option on their website for any query of the visitors.

Tell me below if my advice is useful to you. If you have also tries a website building tool, then share your view about that.

Sunday, 22 February 2015

TemplateToaster Review for Ecommerce Themes

Description
TemplateToaster is best known for designing templates. Based on users’ experience and self experience, here is the details insight on designing eCommerce themes with TemplateToaster.

TemplateToaster Review for Ecommerce Themes

The TemplateToaster is a well known template generator, or many times also called template creator. We put the tool to test is it worth for creating eCommerce themes. Here is a short summary of the complete review.

Summary
•    Good for designing eCommerce themes- Provides many designing options.
•    Covers two Major ECommerce solutions- Magento and Prestashop.
•    Perfectly Compatible with VirtueMart (Joomla!) and WooCommerce (WordPress).
•    Offers many sample templates that are customizable.
•    Ready for mobile commerce because it is responsive and ensures mobile browsers compatibility.
•    No messy programming code is generated, code quality is the best.
•    A tool that generates search engine friendly themes


Holds Good reviews from users

TemplateToaster have made its place among the code automation tools. Already there are so many users, who give good reviews about this software tool. With the launching of new version, more people have downloaded the software this year. The users never lie, they speak up their experiences truly. Based on their good reviews and self experience, I would say, this is a great tool.

No messy code generation
Cleaner code ensures the search engine friendliness, when you hear that TemplateToaster is search engine friendly that means it generates clean code. A precise code is generated by the tool. That is why the designed themes carry lightweight, and hold the potentials to get load faster.

Lots of designing options
Owing to plentiful options, it is possible to design polished eCommerce themes as if they have been made by professional designers. This is absolutely possible to design themes according to the latest designing trends. You can show up labels, discount coupons, alert messages beautifully. Further, you can keep the slide-show in the header with pagination and different transition effects.  There are a lot of options, see the video that is depicting the options.

Works for for the best eCommerce platforms
Magneto and Prestashop are two best capable eCommerce solutions that are being run by millions of business owners throughout the world. No doubt both are good, but their development cost is also high. TemplateToaster is a DIY (do it yourself) tool that could save a lot of designing-development cost for the online store owners. A lot of things are eventually handled by the eCommerce solutions and this tool rest of the matters pertaining designing.

WooCommerce Compatibility

Apart from the dedicated eCommerce platforms, some people (e-store owners, actually) have their stores developed on WordPress, as a famous plugin known by the name WooCommerce can turn the WordPress into an eCommerce solution. In that case also, TemplateToaster is a good solution since it produces WooCommerce compatible themes.

VirtueMart Compatibility
Just like support for WooCommerce, TemplateToaster also exports VirtueMart compatible templates. The VirtueMart is a top eCommerce extension for Joomla! content management system. When you export the templates, in the end of accomplishment of designing, you can choose to have VirtueMart compatibility with your template.

You can design different styles for mobiles and tablets

You can view the responsive style of your templates while designing them through TemplateToaster. Owing to encode in HTML5 and CSS3, your themes will occur perfectly responsive. While you can view a theme in responsive mode, you can edit it as well. That means, without making a different theme for your mobile and tablet visitors, you can provide different designs to the viewers using mobiles and tablets than desktop design.

Support
The developers’ support is a plus point for the users. Though, TemplateToaster is an easy to use tool, if anytime a user seems getting stuck at a point, support staff is ready to help. They quickly react to the users’ queries. Besides, they have a big user forum, where TemplateToaster users put up queries, reply to others, and request new features.

Conclusion and Recommendation
To conclude the review in a few words, I would say that if you have been thinking if TemplateToaster is good for you, then you should go ahead with it. It is really good for non IT e-shop owners for being easy to use and responsive support. TemplateToaster understands the needs of shop owners, they need to have such a website which would load faster on shoppers’ devices, and thus it creates lightweight themes (as I have already said that it generates clean code). Moreover, it is search engine friendly.

Friday, 20 February 2015

TemplateToaster- Helping You in Making Your Website

TemplateToaster is a very nice tool. Based on users’ reviews, it is easy to use though it is not fully
drag and drop, gives the professional output, and is really advanced. It is such a template-creator and website builder that is useful for both IT professionals as well as non IT professionals for the accomplishment of web projects.

Owing to the availability of several content management systems, building a website has gone very easy for non IT professionals. Anyone can create a website without having special training in website building. But for the non IT people, one issue arise again, that is template building. Although there are so many templates are available on the internet for download, they all are not tailored to fit specific needs. In that case, TemplateToaster plays an important role in making specifically designed templates.

How is it the best for non IT professionals?

Because TemplateToaster is a modern template builder that automates template coding thus, a non programmer can make templates easily. People involved into different businesses don’t invest their time in learning programming languages in order to build their website for themselves. TemplateToaster provides them quick solution, within an hour, a template can be created by this tool. That is why, it is the best tool for non programmers.

How can professionals take advantage of it?

It is a code automation tool, even though, the programmers can take out advantages of it, because it provides script editors also, apart from graphical options for designing. So, the programmers can append externals styles to the templates (and static HTML websites). In other words, management of projects gets easier for programmers and a lot of their time is also saved.

Besides, the big advantage for programmers is that they can see the source code and verify the flow of programs, which are made automatically by the tool we are talking about. Because, the TemplateToaster “exports” the source code of user built template on the user’s personal systeminstead of saving that on remote server.

TemplateToaster Overview Video



Templates are marked up in HTML5 and styled in CSS3
  •      That is why, it is responsive
  •      All browsers compatible
  •      Search Engine Friendly
  •      Output looks polished and professional
The templates and websites generated by TemplateToaster are marked up in HTML5, and styles are given according to CSS3. These are the latest standards defined by W3C. That means  TemplateToaster always generates W3C validated and standardized code.

Not just W3C standards, but follows the Bootstrap as well
  •      Consistency of website ensured
  •      More responsive website
  •      Better styling
Besides following the up-to-date W3C standards, TemplateToaster borrows the consistency of Bootstrap. The code includes the bootstrap bits.A lot of Sample Templates are given free You can pick any sample template that suits your specification and can start customizing that in your way. TemplateToaster has several templates for you to choose from. They know that all templates may not be exactly what you have been searching for that is why, you are given the option to design your template or website from scratch.


Conclusion

If you really want a better website builder or a custom web template solution, then of course, the TemplateToaster is a good choice. The best part of TemplateToaster is that it lets you design website and templates from scratch, that other similar tools do not allow. Moreover, several templates for different niches are already to choose from, which can be modified to fit into your specifications.

How to Make a Website If You Are Not a Coding Expert


Many people on the earth do not know coding. So can’t they build a website? Of course they can. The web technology has gone very much advanced. The content management systems are there to be used by everyone who want to create website without specific technical skills. The WordPress, Joomla, Drupal. Magento, and Prestashop are used majorly all over the world. I must tell you that last two, Magento and Prestashop, are better known as eCommerce solutions than the content management system.

A content management system doesn’t need you to have programming skills, in fact, it makes you website management easy and very fast. You need a template to install (that act your website design) on the CMS and a domain to host your website. But problem arises during the times when people need custom designs. Again, technical ignorance hinders custom template development.So, here I will tell you as to how can you develop templates for aforesaid content management systems. There are template generators that help in developing templates, I will tell you about the most popular one.

What is that tool?

•    Automated template generator and website builder
The most popular one is the TemplateToaster. This tool can be downloaded by you for having a trial before paying a fee for its full version download. I have heard good reviews about this tool, and I also have made use of it, that is why I can tell you with full faith that it is a very fine template generator.


How this tool will help you?

•    Very helpful for non IT professionals
The foremost advantage of TemplateToaster is that the user doesn’t have to touch the code. It provides graphical options for designing templates, besides it provides many sample templates, which can be modified or tweaked to your expectations in a few minutes using provided options. You will have to then export the designed template to get a “zip” folder for installation in the CMS. It is not necessary that you will have to complete designing in one go, but you can save your incomplete design for completing that later on. Even after exporting your template, you can open up that anytime, and can modify.

Is it really easy to use?
 •  Very easy to use for everyone
 Yes, TemplateToaster is too easy to use, yet I will recommend to go through the user manual. It resembles the interface of MS Word. In short, all the options are available on ribbon and you can see your design in action while designing.



Designing Capabilities
 •    Huge number of options are given so, you get professionally finished templates
Designing options are not limited in number, there are numerous. You can build up professionally finished templates with TemplateToaster. You can add slideshow in the header, can make menus in different styles, can do connectivity with social media platforms, bootstrap powered labels, badges and alerts can be added, button designing options, and a lot more options are provided.
(Video)

How Advanced is it?
•    Really advanced owing to ultra responsiveness and Bootstrap3 support
For generating quality code, TemplateToaster is unbeatable. Being an automated software, it is unfair to expect that it will generate the perfect bits of code, but yeah, the quality of code it produces is far better (near manually written code). Plus, it supports Bootstrap 3. That means, the source code includes the bootstrap classes and functions. And based on users’ reviews, it is a perfectly responsive tool.

In the end
Anyone can make a website for him or her, and you too. If you can learn to code, then well and good, otherwise the above solution is best.