7 Easy Steps to Convert PSD to Drupal

Drupal has grown significantly in terms of popularity and usage around the world. Its capability to support different content types along with key elements such as video, text, blog, polls and other media accounts for highly dynamic and intuitive websites over the internet. What makes Drupal the preferred choice of around 957,363 people in 228 countries speaking 181 dialects? Well with Drupal one can build anything from blogs to enterprise applications. Its core consists of thousands of add-on modules and essential building blocks to provide a comprehensive solution to all your web development and application development needs using an open source CMS.

Most websites are designed on Photoshop and other imaging software for intricate and aesthetic visuals. However, managing content or other elements on PSD can be a challenge, hence; most of the developers prefer converting it into Drupal. This process demands for exceptional development skills and proficiency in HTML/XHTML/CSS mark-up languages. Illustrated below are few steps that would help you with a fair idea of PSD to Drupal theme conversion.

1. Create the layout and design of the website on a PSD file.

2. Once created, slice the PSD file into multiple layers. On the 'toolbar' of the imaging software you may find ‘Slice tool'. With this tool you can initiate the slicing process.

3. Save all the sliced images in a folder and save it inside the folder where all theme files are saved.

4. Now, code as all the sliced images into any markup language of your choice say HTML/XHTML. Once the coding task is finished save the page as 'home.html'.

5. Open a new page. In order to add CSS stylesheet save this page as 'style.css'.

6. Download and install a Drupal theme of your choice and convert the HTML page into full fledged Drupal theme and save these files in a new folder.

7. Now, you can insert the content of your choice within the HTML pages and customize it later via user friendly website interface.

Now, you are done with the process of converting a HTML page into Drupal theme.