Dashboard ‹ Network Admin — WordPress. IM Creator - Load. How to Convert a PSD Web Design to HTML and CSS. Not long after our newest Tuts+ site, Webdesigntuts+, launched, they posted an excellent tutorial that details the process of designing a warm and cheerful home page in Photoshop. After high demand, we'll take that completed design and convert it into a standards-compliant HTML and CSS web page. Along the way, we'll review a variety of nifty techniques that will help you to improve your own workflow. Even better, when we hit 80,000 RSS subscribers, we'll take things even further and convert the finished product into a custom WordPress theme. Rather than overload you with a massive 4-5 part series all at once, I'll post a new episode in this miniseries every day. It's my hope that, if you're at the point in your career where you can benefit from a series like this, you'll work along with me each lesson.
The Full Series Chapter 2: Create the Markup Chapter 3: Slice the PSD Chapter 4: Integrate the 960 Grid System Chapter 5a: Build the Header Section Chapter 5b: Build the Banner Section. The W3C Markup Validation Service. Downloads/h5d-sectioning-flowchart.pdf. HTML5 Introduction. HTML5 Doctor, helping you implement HTML5 today. Slice and Dice that PSD. CSS Tools: Reset CSS. The goal of a reset stylesheet is to reduce browser inconsistencies in things like default line heights, margins and font sizes of headings, and so on. The general reasoning behind this was discussed in a May 2007 post, if you're interested. Reset styles quite often appear in CSS frameworks, and the original "meyerweb reset" found its way into Blueprint, among others.
The reset styles given here are intentionally very generic. There isn't any default color or background set for the body element, for example. I don't particularly recommend that you just use this in its unaltered state in your own projects. It should be tweaked, edited, extended, and otherwise tuned to match your specific reset baseline. Fill in your preferred colors for the page, links, and so on. In other words, this is a starting point, not a self-contained black box of no-touchiness. If you want to use my reset styles, then feel free! Previous Versions v1.0 (200802) Acknowledgments. A Beginner's Guide to HTML.
65 Resources for Grid-Based Design. Grid-based design is obviously a popular approach in modern web design. For designers that use grids, this post includes links to useful tools that can improve your efficiency and effectiveness, as well as some articles for advanced techniques. For those of you who are not as familiar with the details of grid-based design, there are plenty of articles and learning resources here. Articles: Grids Are Good – Presentation in a PDF document Why Use a Grid – Mark Boulton 5 Simple Steps to Designing Grid Systems: Preface – Mark Boulton 5 Simple Steps to Designing Grid Systems: Part 1 – Mark Boulton 5 Simple Steps to Designing Grid Systems: Part 2 – Mark Boulton 5 Simple Steps to Designing Grid Systems: Part 3 – Mark Boulton 5 Simple Steps to Designing Grid Systems: Part 4 – Mark Boulton 5 Simple Steps to Designing Grid Systems: Part 5 – Mark Boulton Feeling Your Way Around Grids – Mark Boulton Oh Yeeaahh!
The Funniest Grid You Ever Saw – Subtraction Grid Computing… And Design – Subtraction Galleries: HTML Reference. Introduction to HTML. Slice and Dice that PSD.