A complete Guide: How to Convert PSD files to Drupal Theme?

Most of the site owners ask a question: How to convert beautifully created PSD files to Drupal Theme? However, the entire process of converting the PSD design into a well-coded Drupal theme requires in-depth technical skills and practical experience. If you are not familiar with the programming languages, then it would become impossible for you convert your PSD files to a drupal template. For all the heavy lifting, you need to hire a professional PSD to a Drupal theme conversion service provider. 

But for those who have little knowledge about programming languages or want to get their hands messy in coding, then you should read this blog.

This blog post will help you in transforming PSD format based files into a drupal theme using robust HTML/XHTML/CSS markup languages. 

Here is the complete guide/ process of converting PSD files to fully functional Drupal Theme:

1. The first thing you need to do is to open your PSD based image design file.
2. Choose Slice Tool in the main toolbar and start slicing your PSD format based image files into different layers.
3. Once you are done with slicing, go to the IMAGE menu and select the mode to pick up the accurate colour space (RGB/CMYK). Then, select and save all sliced image.
4. Put images folder in the same folder where you stored your theme files.
5. You can begin by opening a new page to write PSD to HTML/XHTML/CSS mark-up languages.
6. Once you are done with the coding, save a page as “home.html.
7. Open a new page and save as ‘style.css’ to embed CSS stylesheet to the page. (Note: add the code before the tag).
8. Add for div tag type in the body tags.
9. Identification of Div tags are determined with a class name – topnav, maincontent, footerlogin, topcontent, etc need to be coded well.
10. Access to the style.css file to identified class names.
11. If you want to convert HTML page into a well-coded Drupal theme, you need to download and install the most suitable Drupal theme.
    

For creating a new folder to store theme files., you need to consider these following steps:

 12. Access to the theme folder and open a “page.tpl.php” file.
 13. Place right before
 14. Thereafter, save changes as a new file called page.tpl.php and clone changes to style.css into new theme directory. 
 15. The page.tpl.php’s body content will remain the same as HTML file.
 16. Now, replace the sections of page.tpl,php with dynamic content.
 17. Create a page and name it template.php.
 18. Rename function mytyhme regions () to theme name.
 19. The conversion of PSD to Drupal theme is finished with this point.

Endnote
Once you are done with the PSD to HTML/XHTML/CSS to Drupal theme conversion, the next thing you need to do is the content customization. One can easily customize the dynamic content via an intuitive web interface.

Fortunately, Drupal supports unlimited types of content including text, blog posts, videos, polls, etc. And the best part is that you can also edit the Drupal default theme within the admin panel just by installing Drupal CMS.

Well, it would be better if you hire a professional Drupal developer who can offer you high-quality PSD to Drupal theme conversion services at the reasonable price.