Whenever you think of creating a website, there are two most important things that you should consider before creating a website. First is to create a user friendly and an attractive design for your website and another is the website code that should not only be efficient but functional as well. Coming up with a unique design for your website is an art in itself that are people born with but setting up your website code requires a thorough understanding of CSS, PHP, HTML and JavaScript. But what those people should do who are non-programmers and are far away from understanding these typical programs. Here Wordpress plays its role. WordPress was designed keeping in mind the needs of those who are non-programmers and cannot get a grip on programming software’s used for building a website. WordPress, besides being user friendly in creating a website, still needs some extra working when you go to create a custom website by using the tools of WordPress. Therefore, below are some important steps that could help you converting your PSD file that you are using for custom website, into WorPress.
Step 1: Cutting your PSD file
When you are planning to have a custom website by using WordPress, than the first thing people normally do is to have their own image that is mostly made in PSD, in their website. But it’s not that simple as it sounds. When adding some image of yours in WordPress, you have to cut your image in different sections due to the reason that the complete design is unable to be coded in the form of single image. This cutting process is performed in proper editing software. Most of the web designers prefer Adobe Photoshop because perform editing functions there are a lot easier as compared to any other editing software.
Step 2: Coding images
The next step is of coding. Now you have to code the images that you have carved into HTML format or into XHTML format and also use CSS for giving it style. For performing this step, you need to have a very good understanding about HTML and CSS and for this reason, most of the designer choose to code their website using software’s like fireworks and Dreamweaver.
Step 3: Breaking your HTML according to WordPress theme
Creating a custom website using WordPress tools is basically making a WordPress theme by yourself. And this newly created theme will be uploaded by the help of WordPress software on your website. Therefore, the core region of interest here is to convert your image that is designed in PSD to WordPress theme and later, adding some functions to your custom designed website by the help of utilizing plugins and tools of WordPress. So it is important to design your HTML file according to the file structure of WordPress theme so that you could get the most out of it. For this, you will have to break your one HTML file into several HTML files in accordance with the file structure of the theme.
Step 4: Adding WordPress tags
Now for getting your desired level of functionality, you will have to add the function tags that are inbuilt in WordPress into the theme files. You don’t have to be bothered about its working as WordPress will swiftly take care of the matter. After getting done with this step, you will be having your custom theme functioning in the software of WordPress which you can make active through the dashboard of WordPress.
