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TemplateToaster

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What is TemplateToaster?

TemplateToaster is website template and theme generating software. It is developed by AcrossSoft, a software development company in New York, NY. The software is a desktop based application and generates templates or themes for content management systems such as WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, and Prestashop.

Categories & Use Cases

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Snapshot of the WordPress theme that is being designed in TemplateToaster
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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features TemplateToaster has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 3 ratings of TemplateToaster's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Library of website themes

    A library of website frameworks or themes is available as a starting point for building a website.

    Category average: 6.7

  • Mobile optimization / responsive design

    The CMS helps users build webpages that work well on mobile devices – whether m-dot pages or responsively designed pages.

    Category average: 8.5

  • SEO support

    The CMS helps users create the right website infrastructure (pagination, page headers, titles, meta tags, url structure, etc.) to increase the site’s visibility in search engine results.

    Category average: 7.5

Areas for Improvement

  • Community / comment management

    Users can put post/page comments through an approval process, auto-approve commenters based on their email addresses, block commenters by IP address, delete comments, etc.

    Category average: 7.4

  • WYSIWYG editor

    What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get editing tool allows users to build pages without writing code.

    Category average: 7.9

  • Publishing workflow

    The software allows users to set up a custom workflow for updating the website, including approval processes.

    Category average: 8.2

Reviews

What users are saying about TemplateToaster.
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So Far So Good

Mark StephensView profile
Support Manager in Information Technology at Software Firm (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am a Support Manager and was assigned a task to create a website in Joomla 4. I tried to find a quick solution but did not find any. Than I found TemplateToaster reference in Joomla forums. So far so good, our client's website is not that extensive but this software solved our purpose. It has lots of options but as a non techie I used only the basic ones.

Pros

  • It has a Smooth Editor
  • Offers Joomla 4 support

Cons

  • Options design can be in a newer way, I have used MS Office and the options display is very similar so it worked for me.

Return on Investment

  • I was assigned a task and this software done it well, that's it.

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

Davis Brown
Digital & Social Media Manager in Marketing at IT (51-200 employees employees)

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.

Return on Investment

  • 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.