The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Design and Converting it to HTML and CSS 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 the first two tutorials, you'll be able to follow along with this video quite easily.
Top 10 Tutorials for Converting PSDs to HTML/CSS Get the FlatPix UI Kit for only $7 - Learn More or Buy Now Many web designers start a new project by designing a mockup in Photoshop before actually coding the website. For a designer who is comfortable with Photoshop and with this process, less time can be used to create the end result. For those designers who have not mastered the process of converting a design into a fully coded website, these 10 tutorials are excellent learning resources. (For tutorials on creating layouts in Photoshop, see 35 Tutorials for Creating Website Layouts in Photoshop). From PSD to HTML, Building a Set of Web Designs Step by Step
Using Questionnaires for Design Research How do you ask the right questions? In this article, I share a bunch of tips and practical advice on how to write and use your own surveys for design research. I’m an audience researcher – I’m not a designer or developer. CSS Layouts: 40+ Tutorials, Tips, Demos and Best Practices Jul 28 2008 The main idea behind CSS-based layouts is offering more flexibility and enhancing the visual experience of visitors. Some important tips and related key-factors can help to learn basics and keep essential techniques in mind. And this is what this article is all about.
Adobe Evangelists - Greg Rewis Share this Episode Autoplay End of Video A Harder-Working Class Class is only becoming more important. Focusing on its original definition as an attribute for grouping (or classifying) as well as linking HTML to CSS, recent front-end development practices are emphasizing class as a vessel for structured, modularized style packages. These patterns reduce the need for repetitive declarations that can seriously bloat file sizes, and instil human-readable understanding of how the interface, layout, and aesthetics are constructed. In the next handful of paragraphs, we will look at how these emerging practices – such as object-oriented CSS and SMACSS – are pushing the relevance of class.
Creating CSS Layouts: The Best Tutorials on Converting PSD to XHTML First of all, I should thank delicious, StumbleUpon, Dzone, Design float and other major social bookmarking websites’ users for featuring my previous posts. I received a lot of traffic after a few days after starting this blog. In this post, I’m going to show you the most practical tutorials on coding a template using CSS and XHTML. Making a template has two steps. The first step is Designing the template components and the second step is Coding them into a valid XHTML page. For learning designing a template from scratch in Photoshop, I suggest checking this post by dzineblog. How to Make Your Site Look Half-Decent in Half an Hour Programmers like me are often intimidated by design – but a little effort can give a huge return on investment. Here are one coder’s tips for making any site quickly look more professional. I am a programmer.
Create a Promotional iPhone App Site in Photoshop In this tutorial, we'll be continuing this series on creating an iPhone app promotional site by taking our previous Fireworks constructed wireframe and adding color, texture, images, and effects to polish off this design in Photoshop. We'll use some interesting elements, like iPhone imagery and a stylish aurora vector background illustration. We'll finish up with a professional site design ready to get coded! Let's get to it! Final Image Preview Cut Copy Paste Long before I got into this design thing, I was heavily into making my own music inspired by the likes of Coldcut and Steinski. I would scour local second-hand record shops in search of obscure beats, loops and bits of dialogue in the hope of finding that killer sample I could then splice together with other things to make a huge hit that everyone would love. While it did eventually lead to a record contract and getting to release a few 12″ singles, ultimately I knew I’d have to look for something else to pay the bills. I may not make my own records any more, but the approach I took back then – finding (even stealing) things, cutting and pasting them into interesting combinations – is still at the centre of how I work, only these days it’s pretty much bits of code rather than bits of vinyl. Over the years I’ve stored these little bits of code (some I’ve found, some I’ve created myself) in Evernote, ready to be dialled up whenever I need them.
Create an Awesome Portfolio Layout in Photoshop A stylish portfolio is critical for any designer. Other professions have the luxury of describing their skills and accolades in words, but designers can’t just describe their work; they have to show it. Designers are most often compared, chosen, and hired based on the impression that their portfolio makes. Even if your work samples are stellar, the portfolio itself is arguably your most important design work, and it should be just as impressive as the work within it. Below, we’ll use some straightforward techniques to help you create a stylish, professional portfolio layout.
Content Planning Demystified The first thing you learn as a junior editor is that you can’t do everything yourself. You must rely on someone else to do at least part of what must be done: the long-range planning, the initial drafting or shooting or recording, the editing, the production, the final polish. All of those pieces of work that belong to someone else take quite a lot of time — days, weeks, sometimes months. If you’re the sort of person who wrote college term papers the night before they were due, this can come as a bit of a shock.
Design a Web Template using the “960 Grid System” Design a Web Template using the “960 Grid System”Reviewed by Ross Aitken on Dec 28Rating: Preview of Final Results Design a Web Template using the “960 Grid System” Photoshop Tutorial Step 1 Whenever I’m mocking up a web template in Photoshop I use a generic grid called the ’960 Grid System’. This grid system has become very popular in web design, however I still believe that grid systems like this shouldn’t be followed too strictly so the main reason I use this system is because the PSD files come with lots of guides set up already which saves a lot of time.
Chrome DevTools Revolutions 2013 Introduction As the complexity and functionality of web applications has grown, so has Chrome DevTools. In this recap of Paul Irish's Google I/O 2013 talk Chrome DevTools Revolutions 2013, you get a look at the latest features that are revolutionizing how you build and test web applications. If you missed Paul's talk, you can catch it above (go ahead, we'll wait) or you can cut straight to the feature roundup: Workspaces lets you use DevTools as your source code editor.If you use Sass, you'll love the ability to live-edit Sass (.scss) files within DevTools and see your changes immediately reflected on the page.