Expression Engine Support!?

Author Message Corey Posted: 7/30/2012 Quote message  Hello Everybody, I am going to migrate my sites from Joomla to EE and need to use a visual interface such as Atisteer to design my templates. My question is this, can Artisteer be used to create EE templates using HTML export? Or is this a feature I must request for native support? Thanks, -Corey   Corey Posted: 7/31/2012 Quote message  Bump   Nick Posted: 7/31/2012 Quote message  If you are using Artisteer 3.1, you will need native support (read next paragraph). If you are using 4.0 you can develop a plugin for it with the new SDK kit. I don't think it's that simple though... The only cms that I know of that uses Artisteer successfully for over 3 years now is Quickersite. You design your template as an asp.net template, export it as an html zipped template, and QuickerSite takes care of everything for you. The QuickerSite code was changed to convert the template accordingly along with the menu system to work with Artisteer's menu system. I think that is the biggest challenge. The menu system. The end result is that the whole thing works the same way as any of the supporting cms (wordpress, joomla, etc...). Either way, it can be done within a day or two provided you know how to make templates for EE and understand the structure of the Artisteer templates. There is some limited documentation in the news page, when they released 4.0 (http://www.artisteer.com/?p=dev). Artisteer 4.0's most important new feature is exactly this. It's not for casual web designers though, it is only for serious developers. Hopefully soon, we will be able to download and/or buy various plugins. We already know that Artisteer is working on plugins for Magento , osCommerce, and PrestaShop. They did not announce if these plugins will be free or be sold to the public. I hope they also create a plugin for Opencart too!   James Posted: 7/31/2012 Quote message  WHMCS would be awesome as well. Probally make on if one has not been made yet.   Corey Posted: 8/1/2012 Quote message  Thanks for the information, I thought it may be possible to simply export an HTML template, then add the EE shorthand to it afterwards. If a custom plugin is what it takes, perhaps I could make some money with it -Cheers p.s. any idea if there are some kind of royalty agreement with Artisteer for devs? Or is it free for everyone to develop and charge if they want? Thanks again!