Easy steps to convert your PSD File Into a WordPress Theme

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Developing a website needs essential things, primarily an user friendly interface, attractive design, second, a functional and an efficient code for website. 

Functionality without a good design are not compatible when moved apart from excelling in both is utmost necessary to create a good website. 

Coming out with a good web design brings to us quite creative things which is not quite a common quality in most of the people. Wherein coding requires a person to have a good grasp of web technologies such as   HTML,PHP, JavaScript as well as CSS. 

There are people who are good at PSD images but they might take coding can be difficult thing. 

However, WordPress being such an incredible tool custom web development  is not at all a cake walk. Thus you need to overcome this problem and to do this you have 5 incredible steps that  convert PSD design to WordPress template.


Step 1: Slicing PSD images

The beginning step in PSD to WordPress theme conversion is called as slicing. Slicing implies to divide and cut an image file which is a PSD image into different design files every one of these have different component for deign considering the complete design format. 


This is essential as the complete design process cannot be developed in an image. We need to have a website in which several images can be integrated together without that hassle, and it is developed that all the feature and component can make its own feature and functionality .

The process of slicing takes place using the software's for image editing and Adobe Photoshop is preferably the most used software for the designers. But in the end you need to get pixel perfect images and it is easy to get this task done using software's for image editing such as Microsoft paint. However, Adobe Photoshop is one of the best tool that makes it easier for the designers to do the job easily.
There are several designers that are nowadays making use of graphic software for creating layered design images, that is equivalent to Photoshop, and make web design files that are pre divided into components of different layers. This has made the slicing process quite old and obsolete, however you need to know about the process of slicing quite efficiently.


You need to note down another that there are features such as  embedded images and buttons that need  to be removed completely as they cannot be created dynamically, there are several features such as the color of the  header and footer, solid background, or solid design features, that needs to be developed dynamically, and they need not to be developed completely. This is completely depended on the web designer or the programmer on the development what they want to create or not. 


Step 2: Developing Index.html as well asstyle.css

The second step after slicing is to code the HTML/XHTML  style by using CSS. In order to code your HTML you need to have a good control on programming languages such as CSS and HTML. 


In order to code a website now the programmers even make use of web development software for example  Fireworks and Dreamweaver .And this is yet dependent of the programmers to choose which software they wish to choose. 

Step 3: Break as per the WP theme file structure

You need to know that developing a WordPress website means to create a WordPress theme that is then uploaded in the WordPress software. This implies that the main purpose of converting PSD to responsive WordPress theme process implies to convert a PSD image into WP theme and then functionality are added to it using  tools and plugins available for WP. 

Thus in order to reap all the benefits of WordPress, it is vital to make sure that you design your HTML file in accordance to the theme file structure of  WordPress and then break a single HTML file into different HTML files as per the theme of the file structure.

Step 4: Add WordPress tags

The most vital feature of WordPress is that it has a lot of intrinsic functions that are to be used basic functionality and features into your WordPress theme. For this no complicated HTML coding is required. All you need to do is to incorporate WordPress intrinsic WP function as well as tags in to your WP theme files so as to get the functionality you desire and this completes the job. Rest everything is taken care of by WordPress and this is the best part about it.

In the step discussed above we are required to break HTML into file structure of WordPress. 
Then after we need to incorporate WordPress PHP tags into WordPress files and turn it into a combined WordPress theme. 

Step 5: Incorporating functionality

After completing all the steps to  create and activate a WP theme, you can see that WordPress is completely ready to work online . For those who which to incorporate more functionality into your website, or those who want to modulate the pre featured functionality all you need to do is to download and install the related plugin or can configure a structure that already exists by making use of a WordPress dashboard that is quite user friendly.

That implies that one do not needs  to spend  energy as well as time for altering  HTML code, and in this you do not need to go line by in order to alter the codes. For those who wish to add a slider or alter the style of the drop down menu that you are using, and you do not have any grasp of  JavaScript and you are then required to go through the process of embedding it. All this can be done by downloading a plugin, then after downloading you need to install it, and everything can be done easily.