The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Design and Converting it to HTML and CSS

October 23rd, 2009 admin

This screencast will serve as the final entry in a multi-part series across the TUTS sites which demonstrates how to build a beautiful home page for a fictional business. We learned how to create the wireframe on Vectortuts+ ; we added color, textures, and effects on Psdtuts+ ; now, we’ll take our completed PSD and convert it into a nicely coded HTML and CSS website. Please note that, even if you haven’t read…


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  1. November 23rd, 2009 at 08:20
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    An easy and quite affordable way to get the photoshop designs sliced into high quality web layouts.

    You may want to take a look at this service at http://www.seo-semantic-xhtml.com

  2. November 30th, 2009 at 07:35
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    “Great compilation! Thanks a lot for putting it all in one place, but there is another one to add to your list.

    http://www.xhtml-css-code.com/html/things-to-remember-while-coding-a-website-to-make-it-search-engine-friendly

    Though, not exactly a psd to html conversion article, but one must keep these tips in mind while coding a PSD into search engine as well as user friendly web layout.

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