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Artisteer.exe is the software you run on your desktop to create and style your web pages. When you

are ready, you can publish your website to Artisteer.net, where your site becomes visible to everyone

on the World Wide Web. You can edit your web content with Artisteer, but mostly Artisteer on the
desktop is about 'styling', which is how you make your text, images, buttons, menus, and various other

elements appear in the browser. For example, when you add text to a page, you can define the font,
the font size, and the color. Most of the time, the 'style' you create is kept in something called a

template (aka theme). You don't work with the template directly. This is done automatically for you as

you create your web pages. When your published webpages are copied to Artisteer.net, Artisteer
sends both the template and your content (e.g. text). On the web, viewers see your webpages after

the template (style) is applied to the content.

In the rest of the manual there are many references to the 'desktop' and 'web' versions of Artisteer.

'Desktop' refers to Artisteer.exe, or Artisteer running on your desktop. 'Web' refers to Artisteer.net.
After you publish your website, you can also create/edit/delete content on the web or on the desktop.

The major difference between the web and desktop is this. The style of your content (i.e. the template)
must be created on the desktop. You can style certain elements on the web, but mostly how you want

your web pages to look is done with Artisteer.exe. The web is used to manage features of your

website thru settings in the back-end (administrator) of Artisteer.net.

You can create content for your website (e.g. text and images) thru either the desktop or the web but

you should avoid using both at the same time. Whenever you publish your website from the desktop,
Artisteer will attempt to synchronize the content between the web and the desktop so you will see the

same pages, posts, and everything else. Just remember that whenever you make changes to your
content (on the web, or on the desktop), you should re-publish your website from the desktop each

time. This keeps the web and desktop synchronized. When you save your Artisteer project on the
desktop, you are saving both the theme and the content in your project file (e.g. myproject.artx).

Artisteer.net is not only where you host your website, but it also provides the backend to manage your
site. Once you publish your website and have a user account, you can go to www.artisteer.net, log in,

and begin adding, arranging, and moderating your content. You can also add or set features related to
how viewers can interact with your web pages (e.g. allow comments).

In the following sections, the manual often refers to ‘blogs’ and ‘static HTML websites’. For the

purposes of this manual, both terms refer to the same type of website. Artisteer makes no distinction

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