Learn How to Convert PSD to Drupal Theme

How to convert high quality PSD to Drupal theme? The process of converting the design concept from PSD files into fully functional and unique Drupal theme right through HTML/XHTML/CSS mockup is not so easy. 

In this article, a complete tutorial for PSD to Drupal conversion has been given to make people learn how to transform PSD format based files into Drupal theme by using strong HTML/XHTML/CSS mark-up languages. Let's start:

• First of all, open the Adobe PhotoShop based image design file known as PSD.
• Select Slice tool in the main toolbar to start with slicing of a PSD format based image files into multi-layers.
• After slicing of PSD, go to the IMAGE menu and select the mode to choose right colour space (RGB/ CMYK). Now, select all sliced images and click to Save.
• Place images folder inside a same folder where theme files are located.
• To start off with, one needs to open a new page to hand-code PSD to HTML/ XHTML/ CSS mark-up languages.
• Save a page as 'home.html' once finish with coding.
• Open a new page and save as 'style.css' to add CSS stylesheet to the page. Add before the tag.
• Add for div tag type in the body tags.
• Div tags identified with a class name - topnav,.topcontent,.maincontent,.rightcontent, and.footerlogin needs to be coded.
• Open the style.css file to identified class names.
• To start with converting HTML page into a fully functional Drupal theme, one needs to download and install the desired Drupal theme.
• Now, create a new folder to store theme files.
• Open the theme folder and then open file called page.tpl.php.
• Place right before
• Now, save changes as a new file called page.tpl.php and copy changes to style.css within new theme directory.
• Body content of page.tpl.php will remain same as HTML file.
• Replace the sections of page.tpl.php with dynamic content.
• Create a page named as a template.php.
• Rename function Yourtheme_regions() to theme name.
• Here, converting HTML page into Drupal theme is finished.

After converting PSD-HTML/XHTML/CSS-Drupal theme, the content customization is the next thing to move on. An individual can easily customize the dynamic content through easy-to-use web interface. An open source Drupal supports countless content types such as video, text, blog, polls etc. 

The best part is that an individual can also change Drupal default theme within the admin panel by simply installing Drupal Content Management System. It is recommended to hire Drupal developer for converting PSD to Drupal theme for people without solid knowledge of Drupal platform.