Artisteer V. 3.0 final beta avail now here Dec 23

I just installed and am playing with it.  Awesome! Just Awesome!

For everyone new to Artisteer 3.0 here is the summary of the new features:

* Website creation features with support for editing pages and blog posts
* Web design and website samples
* Support for fluid layouts (resizable sheet width)
* Interactive web design preview area (clicking a web design element navigates to corresponding tab in Artisteer)
* Ability to specify design styles for the "Suggest" feature, generating thematic web designs (corporate, simple, retro, etc.)
* Custom CSS options in Export Options
* WordPress theme code based on the default WP 3.0 TwentyTen theme
* Additional header and background graphics
* Additional color themes
* Website hosting service at www.artisteer.net

I will not be installing any new 3.0 themes with mojoPortal till after the final release and until after Joe has done an upgrade compatible with V 3.0.

However it's fun to play now and save any cool new creations.

Should be about 2 weeks before we see the final version.

Rick(Arvixe)
 

Hi All,

fyi, I couldn't resist trying out Artisteer 3.0 since it is very close to shipping.

For those working from the mojoPortal source code repository, support for Artisteer 3.0 has landed in the repository. I've upgraded the artisteer-24* skins to artisteer-30* and added 2 new skins, one was a sample included with Artisteer, it is named artisteer-30alphamotors, and one that I created myself named artisteer-30business1. You can also see these skins now on demo.mojoportal.com

I have archived the previous versions of those artisteer-24* skins and will make them available in the extraskins.zip file that is available with each release, so they will still be available for those who do not upgrade to Artisteer 3.0 for whatever reason, but I could not see keeping them in the package since the 3.0 versions of the same skins are the same designs just with slightly different implementations.

There are of course some differences in the output produced by Artisteer 3 than previous versions. Most of the changes are reflected in the layout.master files of the new version skins, but there were a few minor changes that needed additional options in mojoPortal to produce the correct markup. These differences are reflected in different settings in the theme.skin file which enables the new markup, while previous versions of Artisteer are still supported by other settings in theme.skin in older skins.

The instructions for creating a mojoPortal skin from an html export from Artisteer are essentially the same as before except that you use the artisteer-30* skins as a starting point. Which skin you use as a starting point is still based on the menu location and whether using vertical horizontal or both menu types. The new Fluid layouts of Artisteer have no impact on this since there is no difference in html markup for fluid layouts, only differences in CSS.

You'll notice that the files exported by Artisteer include jquery.js (which actually has both jquery and sizzle.js inside it), since mojoPortal already includes jquery you do not need to include that file in your skin. I've added sizzle.js as a separate file and there is a setting on <portal:ScriptLoader in the artisteer-30* skins that makes it load the sizzle.js.

So, if you are working from our repository, feel free to try out Artisteer 3.0 designs and let me know if you run into any problems. 

Best,

Joe

Hi Joe, I had a chance to upgrade one of our Artisteer 2.4 skins to 3.0, and put it into the test environment. It went quite smoothly. I based it on Artisteer-30headermenu. The only "nonstandard" thing I needed to do was override the padding to 0px in the .art-menu selector in style-artisteer-overrides. That may have been because your sample was using a tabbed menus, where mine is a button bar.

Is step 8 in the Creating Skins from Artisteer document now obsolete? I see that Artisteer 3.0 is using h3 for sidebar titles now, and you don't have those extra h2.moduletitle overrides any longer.

Jamie

Hi Joe

Arvixe just released a beta update (December 30)!!!

Thanks for jumping on Artisteer V 3.0 so soon.

I noticed in TortoiseHg that artisteer-greenlagoon( my favourite) and artisteer-swirly1 do not have a artisteer version number.  What version are they?

I just sent you a couple of beer in appreciation.

Works busy for me the next few weeks but I'm sure I'll sneak some time to try it on my mojo web site.

Rick (Arvixe)