[thewomaninus]

I have Artisteer and started working on a theme and since I just installed buddypress am now wondering “Will it even work with it?”

Also let me go ahead and ask this question while I’m here. Can anyone explain to me how to have the front page of my site not as a blog or buddypress? Then to have a blog of different Categories on different tabs? Then a place to click to go into where buddypress would be? Does that make sense?

[@mercime]

@thewomaninus
== I have Artisteer and started working on a theme and since I just installed buddypress am now wondering “Will it even work with it?” ==

It could work with BP Template Pack, BUT
1. personally, I’d recommend against using Artisteer to generate your theme. Better to download theme closest to design you want from https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ then adjust accordingly.
2. code generated could most possibly make it harder for your to integrate BuddyPress template files
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/
3. don’t know whether any javascript generated from creating that theme with Artisteer would have conflict with BuddyPress or BP plugins.
4. etc.

== Can anyone explain to me how to have the front page of my site not as a blog or buddypress? Then to have a blog of different Categories on different tabs? Then a place to click to go into where buddypress would be? Does that make sense? ==

Yes, I know what you mean. That is basically a WordPress template question. Create a Page Template, put in code for that template, publish the page with custom Page Template and set it as front page of your site.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates
https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
For more thorough assistance on this area, please post at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates