Slicing and Coding of PSD file to HTML/CSS format

In the virtual online global market, there is prevailing a cut throat competition among online business owners in order to represent their organization and business through the online medium, in better way. An appealing and soothing website plays a substantial role in reflecting a positive impression of the organization to their potential customers. In order to create such an alluring and easily accessible website, you need to ensure that the website must be W3C validated, semantic coded and cross browser compatible. All these required attributes can be delivered to your website during the most important process of the website development i.e. PSD to HTML conversion. As it is the most crucial phase of the entire website development project, a single error is not permissible at all.

What is all about the PSD slicing and then converting the PSD design to HTML/CSS format? Coding of PSD design to the HTML format is basically done in order to create a fully functional website and that too highly search engine friendly. This process involves slicing of PSD design and then coding each sliced layer to the HTML format. The picture would be more clear after going through the following steps.

1)Structure of PSD file:-The first step of this entire process is the creation of three distinct files. These files would be named as index.html (HTML codes), style.css (CSS styling codes) and reset.css (Reset CSS codes). This is generally done to avoid any confusion.

2)Slicing PSD file: - This step involves the slicing of PSD design into different layers. It starts with opening the PSD file in Photoshop or any other image editing software for slicing. Once the PSD design is sliced, web designer can add or remove buttons, links, image, color, text box in an easy way. Further it is saved as JPEG, GIF, bitmap or any other formats.

3)PSD to CSS/HTML integration: - Once the web designer accomplished the slicing of PSD design, he/she integrates the design into pixel perfect and high quality HTML codes. By doing this, web designer adds life to the predesigned template.

4)Insert content: - Once the designer is done with PSD to HTML integration, coder adds the content, logo and many other required components in order to make it more interactive and user friendly.

5)Testing in Browser: - Finally, the time comes when developers have to test the structured HTML web page on all the major browsers like firefox, IE, Opera, Chrome etc. to validate its accessibility.

Above discussed steps make a sequenced process of slicing and coding of PSD file to HTML/CSS format to build an effective and efficient website.

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