I’ve been asked on many occasions: how can you take a Photoshop layout and turn it into a web page?

Actually, here is a snippet of an email from a reader:

“I would love to see an example of taking a psd file, which is how I usually start. And then go to Step One, Step Two, etc to turn it into a web page.”

You have a few options … let’s start with the option you should avoid: slicing images.

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Preamble:

I’ve mentioned several times in the past 2 years, that web designers should learn how to use/edit at least one blog or CMS. Some popular choices:

• Wordpress - a blog.
• Drupal - a CMS.
• Mambo - a CMS

.. And there are many, many more.

Why should web designers be concerned?

I won’t go into all the details here, but in a nutshell, a lot of web sites can use the features/functionality provided by blogs or CMS packages. Why reinvent the wheel?

That said, what is the difference between a blog and a CMS?

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Web design has been transformed over the last many years. In many ways, the skills a web designer needed in 1996 are totally different from the skills you need in 2007 … and the foreseeable future.

I won’t go into what you needed in the past, because it matters not. So let’s talk about what you need to know today, to be a complete and competitive web designer.

The Web Designer’s Study Guide:

1. HTML
2. CSS
3. PHP
4. Javascript

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Killersites.com was started by David Siegal (of ‘Creating Killer Web Sites’ fame) back around 1996. This was effectively the first version of the site.

In 2002-2003, I officially took over and started version 2 of killersites.com. It has gone through a lot of changes over the last 4-5 years that has resulted in a lot of web design related content … too much content to manage with html, php and jsp pages running all over the place!

… It is time for a major shift.

Wordpress vs. Drupal and Killersites.com version 3:

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Hi,

I’ve update my beginners tutorial on object oriented PHP adding steps 18-22.

Again, this is a code intensive article where I expect you to follow along with your PHP editors.

More to come.

Thanks,

Stefan Mischook

www.killerphp.com