TemplateToaster, Best for both Developers, Designers and other IT professionals
Updated July 08, 2015

TemplateToaster, Best for both Developers, Designers and other IT professionals

Davis Brown | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

TemplateToaster Version 5

Modules Used

  • WordPress theme generation
  • HTML 5/ CSS 3 Website Creation

Overall Satisfaction with TemplateToaster

It is a CMS theme generating software such that my organization uses the software for making themes and templates for major content management systems like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, PrestaShop, and Blogger. TemplateToaster exactly delivers what it promises.

How we are using it?

It is being used by professional web designers, professional web developers, freshers, digital marketers (like me) and bloggers. In short it is for those who want to make themes by themselves without writing a single line of code. TemplateToaster provides greater flexibility for designing themes/templates. So, one can do design for any type of website. Templates for any sort of websites can be made. It has advanced designing features including Bootstrap 3.

Key differentiators

  • The quality of code generated is very clean.
  • Fine finishing of web designs is another that makes it ahead of its competitors.
  • Number of designing options is more as compared to other theme generators.
Method used for TemplateToaster training
  • Self-taught
  • Documentation
  • Demonstrative videos
  • Support
TemplateToaster implementation

Very easy to implement. Just download it and purchase the license. Within five minutes, it starts working. It has be downloaded by the user on its personal computer system.

Pros

  • Advanced designing features and using these advanced features very easily e.g. Bootstrap 3 support that makes flawless responsive templates.
  • Encapsulated all the major designing trends with respect to particular CMS.
  • Optimized code is produced for every theme/template as such the coding standards are perfectly followed by this software.
  • All WordPress themes made with this software pass the Theme Check test.
  • Because of W3C compliance it ensures consistency of websites over the web.
  • HTML5 and CSS3 also ensure better look of designs on small screens.
  • Apart from making web templates, one can make full fledged websites too. TemplateToaster allows making static websites with YouTube video inclusion. It has inbuilt FTP, so that user can easily move its website to the server.
  • An amazing and exclusive feature it provides is the option to draw custom widget/module/ block area.

Cons

  • It is not available for MAC operating system.
  • TemplateToaster returns full value of money.
  • It helps in finishing my projects ahead of time, hence I can finish more projects in less time. In other words, it helps in increasing my efficiency, which brings monetary benefits to me.
  • Advanced features, lesser price and ease of use. For designing perspective, it has many options in accordance with latest web designing trends.
  • Most prominent is- custom positions can be made for widgets or plugins to be included
  • Slideshow can be included.
  • Images browsed from the system can be transformed using its image editor.
  • Texture-effects-shadow can be applied wherever required.
  • margin-padding settings can be done easily.
  • And many more options are provided by this software on its interface.
TemplateToaster has the best features which include: BOOTSTRAP 3 support, W3C compliance, all devices and all browsers compatibility, clean and concise code generation, and extensive designing options. A big pack of sample templates comes free with software installation, and all the designing options have been provided as per the latest web design trends. Templates made in TemplateToaster make clients say, “wow, it’s amazing”. TemplateToaster is a designing tool as well as a development tool. In short words, it provides a GUI for designing templates, after the accomplishment of designing, the template can be exported into a fully-fledged web template, which is ready to use as a website design.

TemplateToaster Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG editor
10
Code quality / cleanliness
10
Admin section
10
Page templates
10
Library of website themes
10
Mobile optimization / responsive design
10
Publishing workflow
10
Form generator
10
Content taxonomy
10
SEO support
10
Bulk management
10
Availability / breadth of extensions
10
Community / comment management
10
API
10
Internationalization / multi-language
10
Role-based user permissions
10

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