INTRODUCTION MAGENTO

• Magento is an open-source content management system for e-commerce web sites. It is the

eCommerce software and platform trusted by the world's leading brands.

• Magento officially started development in early 2007. Seven months later, on August 31, 2007,

the first public beta version was released.

• Varien, the company owning Magento, formerly worked with osCommerce.

• As of June 6, 2011 eBay owns 100% of Magento.

• Magento provides three distinct platforms, Magento Community Edition, Magento Enterprise

Edition, and Magento Go.

• The latest version is 1.1.2.3 which was released on March 28, 2014. On July 1, 2014, Magento

Inc. announced that they would be shutting down the Magento Go platform on February 1, 2015.

Best 5 Magento Theme Generators

Here, I am going to let you know about the top 5 theme generators which will help you out in making Magento themes.

TemplateToaster

Mage-World Layout Editor

Artisteer

Billion Themler

DIY Mage

All of the above mentioned Magento theme generators are good to go ahead with. Each of these provides flexibility to make up the wished layout of Magento website.

TemplateToaster

TemplateToaster is a leading website template ,and theme generating software. The software is desktop based application.

It is developed by AcrossSoft and released on 20 March 2012.

TemplateToaster is available in both in demo and premium.

TemplateToaster Version 5 has been released on 20 December 2014.

Features

Responsive menu

Independent customization of responsive views

Generates Bootstrap output

WooCommerce compatibility

WYSIWYG Editor

Inbuilt Stock Images Library

W3C Validation

http://templatetoaster.com/

Mage-World Layout Editor

Mage-World is a large portal of Magento themes and extensions that provides Best–in–Class solutions for Magento platform.

Features

High quality, stable & user-friendly extensions

Reward points for all purchases

Free installation service

Lifetime free support and upgrade

Support developers / starts-up

Awesome loyalty program

http://www.mage-world.com

Artisteer

Artisteer is a WYSIWYG website theme creation tool developed by Extensoft. The first version of Artisteer was released in September 2008. Artisteer version 3.0 was released on June 2011. The current version is Artisteer 4.1 for Windows and 3.1 Beta for Macintosh.

Unlike other HTML editors, Artisteer does not create fully functional Web sites, but creates Web templates

Features

Visual editing of website templates.

Allows a user to create a web site design and/or web site template.

The product installation package includes a wide variety of graphic elements such as backgrounds, textures, effects, and photos.

The output of the finished design is compliant with "XHTML 1.0 Transitional" and contains validated HTML and CSS conforming to the W3C web standards.

The finished design looks the same in all modern web browsers.

http://www.artisteer.com/

Billion Themler

Billion themler is a widely known generator. It’s a responsive theme generator. You can run Themler online by creating an account with it, or you can accept the offer of a theme. Any one can design professional, responsive themes with no coding.

Features

Responsive Design,Mobile Support

Extensive HTML 5 and Bootstrap 3

Live Web Content

Support for Major CMS Platforms

More than 200 Controls and Effects

Custom Shortcodes for any Controls

Visual Shortcodes Content Editor

http://billionthemler.com/

DIY Mage

DIY Mage is a layout manager instead of a theme generator. It simplifies the layout management by presenting “click to select” choices for the layout. It’s like the Mage World extension, and  works with any theme you would

Features

Modify the page layout without touching any XML

Choose the design of your page ‐ 1, 2 and 3 column layouts

Works with any theme

Use the DIY Mage theme to get full control

Position CMS static Blocks

Built with theme developers in mind

http://diymage.com/

THAT’S ALL