To come up with a WordPress theme, you will be needing an Adobe Photoshop based design or a PSD file which is generated using this software. Well, creating web designs of your own usually comes under the customisation section and it is the best to make your business or personal website search engine friendly. The PSD-based designs play a significant role in making visually compelling content and make the portal easily manageable.

The transformation of PSD to Wordpress CMS system is a bit complex process so it is recommended to hire the skilled developer who gets things done on your behalf. The WordPress CMS software is one of the most preferred web development platforms because it allows users to have complete control of the site. Being a theme-based CMS system, users can customise the whole look and feel of their portal without any hassle.

If you already have a PSD-based design then it will become a lot easier for you to merge them into WordPress. Given below are few steps that you need to follow while making PSD conversions:

Analyse PSD files

To start with the conversion process, first, you have to analyse the PSD files and check whether it is simple or complex. In other words, you can say it's all about planning before actually starting the task. At this stage, developers or users usually set up a blueprint which consists of things like CSS, HTML, header, footer and images.

Breaking PSD files to HTML

Once you are done analysing PSD files, it's time to break them so that HTML integration becomes easy. The internet sites based on WordPress have a dynamic interface so it is essential to wrap your designs around HTML so it becomes easier for you to add any sort of functionality. In addition to this, the web coder also puts up the logo, body, site name, and image in its core.

Slice PSD files

It is one of the crucial steps in the WordPress theme development process. The developers can use the Adobe Photoshop or any other compatible software for slicing the image files. Once you are done, you will have the ability to remove or add links, text fields and buttons. It will also help you integrate background colour, images etc.

File Structure

It will be good if you make separate files and name them as style.css (code up CSS styles), index.html (for HTML scripts) and index.php (PHP codes). This will help you in adding functions tags in the later stage of development.

PSD to HTML and CSS

As PSD get uploaded to your site then sliced image is encoded with a high-quality HTML then CSS.

Integrate CSS/HTML to WordPress

Once the PSD files get converted into CSS & HTML, the developers then combine static design into a dynamic WordPress template.

Web Testing

Before making your site live, it will be good if you first test run your portal. Check and eliminate the bugs and errors. Check the availability of pages on different browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, and Opera, etc.

Follow these above-mentioned steps you will get your PSD converted in an easy manner.