Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Develop a website leveraging WordPress CMS

There are 3 important things to start a website for your business. First an attractive user-friendly design with some great graphics experience, second the design must be converted to a W3C validated HTML5, CSS3 with responsive web pages and the third step is to implement the HTML in an efficient functional code with dynamic CMS. All steps look incomplete without each other and excelling in all is essential to develop a good website.

If you are not a programmer yourself, the open source society has rewarded us with WordPress, an open source website content management system tool. WordPress is a highly recommended and widely used content management system for non-programmer community to design their own website. When it comes to creating a custom design in WordPress is not that easy, but if you may follow below steps to convert your PSD to WordPress template.


Valid PSD to HTML Conversion


After preparing a PSD design of your website, the first step comes to PSD to HTML conversion of your design toward building your website. During the HTML conversion, there are 2 stages first is to slice the design and then write the CSS & JS in a separate file and HTML in another file.

The design layout will be sliced into multiple design files having their own design component of the overall design. This is important because the design cannot be coded in a single image file; now write the CSS wherein you need to define all font style, background, header tags and other important design aspects.

All small designs which sliced earlier will be embedded again with the help of CSS and HTML. The buttons and backgrounds will also be embedded in the form of CSS. JavaScrip/JQuery will help you to embed required transitions on the page to make your page effective. On the other hand, you already have the index.html, where it is to embed the style.css and JS files in order to complete the PSD to HTML Conversion.

During this process, you need to make sure the HTML/CSS is written to the W3C standard which is very much important to make your web page Search Engine Friendly. It means if your page is W3C validated, using robust, semantic, commented code will help search engine’s crawler or robot to index the important contents and pages in respective search engines for eg. Google, Yahoo! and Bing etc.

WordPress implementation

Now, you are done with PSD to HTML conversion and you must have 4 files with you i.e. style.css, index.html, images folder and .js files; which need to be implemented in WordPress to complete the PSD to WordPress development.

You need to explore the wp-admin and need to place the HTML, CSS, JavaScript files along with sliced images on the server as per WordPress structure. Now, your simple WordPress site is ready to rock the World Wide Web.

In addition, WordPress also provides thousands of free and paid plugins which you can also implement on your website to make your website more productive and dynamic. Some of the plugins are very useful for SEO performance of the site. Additionally, if you want to build a custom WordPress site with custom functionality you can always find professional PSD to WordPress Development firms across the globe and can avail the services.

Thanks for your time!

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