On first place we have: Best options to get high quality PSD to WordPress conversion

When we talk about PSD to CMS, WordPress is the first one that appears in our mind.  PSD to WordPress conversion is the foremost activity that has to be done with extra care if you do not want to be victim of the 7 Deadly Sins for WordPress. Here are some advices on what is need in order to convert a Photoshop to WordPress.

On second place we have: Convert PSD to Joomla theme and template for complete web development support by Rini Srivastava

This is an invitation to all web developers to learn a little bit about the awesome magic behind PSD to Joomla. How can it be used for much more than a blog application and brings a lot of new possibilities of employment. Convert PSD to Joomla theme/template, can get you aesthetic and eye-catching website successfully running over the net.

On third place we have: 5 Tips to Optimize your Content while Keeping it User-Friendly by Adam Seguin

Here is an explanation of what “good content” means on your blog and it also applies for any other CMS’ too. While it is important to create content that is optimized for SEO, it is also important to keep this content user-friendly. This is a fine line to walk since favoring one of these aspects too much will come at the expense of the other.

On fourth place we have: Why “I Don’t Like Your Brand on Facebook” by Natalie Dee

Have your favorite yoghurt ever ask you to find it on Facebook? As social networks slowly become the default online presence for brands to drive their consumers to, adverts, marketing and packaging has started telling us where to go. However, it hasn’t yet started telling us why to go there. This article shows a little statics of how many brands are actually doing it right and why to give “reasons why” is so important.

On fifth place we have: Why Google Does Not Own Skype by Steven Levy

So Microsoft is buying Skype for $8.5 billion, its biggest deal ever. But here is little explanation why Google does not own it. Can you imagine it been a bad acquisition for them? Well you can find some interesting details that would bring a little peace to your heart by understanding another point of view. It also shows a little glance of what might happen in the future.

Those are the lucky winners for this week. Hope you guys had a blast and actually got to learn a thing or two with these really amazing pieces of information.

Of course, when being creative you also need to be careful. With creative navigation, looks and attractiveness should never overtake the need for usability, but even with a usable and accessible navigation scheme there is plenty of room for some PSD to HTML5 creativity. Remember that minimalism is a wisely art done gracefully by the best.

Do not fall victim of:

• Laziness – To stand out you must innovate and challenge established practice. There are different ways of doing the same as your competitors.
• Fear – It is a normal human reaction to what is unknown but if you do not take risks every once in a while, then there is no way you will stand out.
• Lack of forethought – See what other fields are doing, how they communicate with their clients and let them inspire you.

Here are the tools that can make magic on your PSD to CMS:

The PSD to WordPress plugins magic box:

AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild- On HTML to WordPress you can make a change in the admin panel or the functions file, and all future images will be the new size, but all your existing thumbnails will still be the old size.

Smart YouTube- All you do is paste in the URL of your YouTube video, and change “http://” to “httpv://”. There are other options in the settings page so you can set default sizes etc.

Social Media Widget- It lets you add a sidebar widget where it will display the social icons you want. You can add more, change the size, and play with the shape of the icon.

PSD to Magento magic rope extensions:

Onestepcheckout extension- This extension replaces the whole checkout process on Magento. When you click the checkout process, there are 4 easy steps that you need to do and there won’t be any confusion or frustration at all.

Best seller extension from Mage-world: This extension let you display your bestselling products in various modes such as slider, sidebar block, etc.

Magento Livechat: This plug in will provide a nice block on your side bar to let your customers chat with you while you are sitting at the back end.

PSD to Joomla magic knife extensions:

Modalizer Module – It can convert all links in your website to Modal Window links.

HOT Joomla Carousel - It is a simple Joomla module that will helps you show your photos in a carousel style. You just need to enter the path to your images and your carousel is ready. You can control many other parameters, like colors (background, border), image sizes, margins, transition effects, etc.

HOT Newsflash – Used to showcase articles from your site. In module parameters, you have control over module display. You can change module width, height, border, all colors. Add internal or external links to each image in rotation.

PSD to Drupal magic modules hat:

Find URL Alias- It is a utility module that lets you search for particular URL aliases. This module requires the core path module which enables search engine friendly URLs for your site.

Meta tags- It allows you to define sitewide meta tags and specific tags for each piece of content. If you use the core taxonomy module, it can be assigned automatically by using the terms you use to categorize your content.

Service links- It automatically adds links to your content to social bookmarking and blog search services. You can select which services you want to link to, restrict the display based on content types and whether to display links in teaser or full page view.

First of all, Content Management Systems (CMS) are a collection of procedures used to manage workflow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual or computer-based and are designed to do the following:

• Allow for a large number of people to contribute and share stored data
• Control access to data, based on user roles (defining which information users or user groups can view, edit, publish, etc.)
• Aid in easy storage and retrieval of data
• Reduce repetitive duplicate input
• Improve the ease of report writing
• Improve communication between users

Why Choose PSD to WordPress?

Unlike remote-hosted scripts such as Blogger and LiveJournal, you host WordPress on your own server. Another benefit is that there are not a million files to change mode nor are there dozens of templates to edit just to get your HTML to WordPress set up and looking the way you want. Waiting for pages to rebuild is a thing of the past because template changes are made in scant seconds.

WordPress is built following W3C standards for XHTML and CSS, ensuring that your site is more easily rendered across standards-compliant browsers. Do not use it as an e-Commerce because it won’t work as you want it.

Why Choose PSD to Magento?

For companies who are serious about their online eCommerce the choice has become much easier. The Magento platform is a proven system that continues to evolve with each extension developed and with each system upgrade.

One of Magento’s key selling points is its ease of use for both the seller and the customer. Some key features include:

• Marketing Promotions and Tools (coupons, featured items, gift cards & more)
• Analytics and Reporting
• Site Management
• Advanced Shipping

For customers the benefits include:

• Navigation for Filtering of Products in Categories
• Product Reviews
• One-page Checkout Capability
• Extensive Shipping Options

Why Choose PSD to Drupal?

Drupal’s amazing flexibility means that it is just as easy to create a blog, user forum, ecommerce site, or a corporate site using the same framework. Drupal adheres to all web standards and uses modern techniques for XHTML, HTML to CSS, and JavaScript. You can do with it what you want with PSD to HTML5, and it doesn’t cost anything whether you have one or a thousand servers.

Why Choose PSD to Shopify?

Shopify is a slick system and their template engine is awesome and easy to work with. It does have a limitation of how many product variations you can have. It will only list up to 100 variations per product and no more than 3 options (ex: color, size, material). So for example if you have a t-shirt in 4 sizes and 3 colors, it can handle that just fine. But if you are selling a duvet cover in 5 sizes, 10 colors and 3 different cloth types, that would be a problem.

If you have a lot of traffic to your store, then you’ll want the higher cost plan, but if your traffic is lower you can pay less. In other words, with Shopify you really have the opportunity to allow your sales to pay for your shopping cart.

Why Choose PSD to Joomla?

By choosing an off-the-shelf industry-standard solution like Joomla, you can choose from thousands of web-designers familiar with this platform rather than locking yourself in to a custom built solution where the only person who understands it is the person who built it.

Other benefits

• Versatile and customizable
• Free Open Source Software
• Wide range of extensions (see below)
• Easy to use
• Large developer & user community

Those are just the top of the iceberg, remember to choose wisely and always investigate first.

PSD to HTML training:

First of all they go through a set of theory classes about how to write totally awesome code for menus, div basics (header, sidebar, body, and footer), galleries, videos, etc, just to get things started. The second step is the most important: all trainees go to war practice, where they must survive intensive cases of completely difficult and general subjects like theme html; this taks place throughout just a month where the supervisors control the progress level in order to decide when they will be really ready to start working in the floor.

Quality:

Our Quality Team is completely committed to achieving Pixel Perfect; if it is not right then these guys are going to make it right, make it happen. As a first step they must become HTML coders Masters and then go for cross browsing domination, check if the HTML code works in all of the major browsers Safari, Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Opera; and of course, spelling practices. You might know them; they constantly talk to you when your website is in process.

PSD to WordPress training:

We’ve got faith in these guys! With Google as their best friend, they have to master PHP and Javascript (you must already know HTML and CSS or some coding level to be a friend with these guys) and after a month of full, extensive practice they are ready to go for it and completely blow our minds with awesome wordpress template, wordpress themes or custom wordpress.

PSD to Magento training:

After 4 months, these guys are ready to make your website the best salesman ever, but don’t get us wrong, this is not in any way an easy training. Magento is one of the most difficult CMSs to code. Why is that? Because it must be easy to understand for the final client be able to use it, have the right Magento theme and make css templates come to life.

PSD to Joomla training:

With a full control over logic programming, they are ready in a month to make any joomla template, joomla theme you throw at them and we mean anything. They must master component creation in order to work your website.

PSD to Drupal training:

They go in pursuit of any “Do as I command” programs out there that do not let them work in totally synchrony with your PSD. With the new release of Drupal 7.0 it is necessary to know front and backend programming, how to use views to be able to master any Drupal theme or Drupal Template and become your best ally in only a month.

Customer Service training:

Your every day friends, those guys maybe have it the worst of all: in our particular way of customer service, there is not a script to follow, every customer has their different problems or questions that our representative must answer with full quality and they must be capable to give out a concrete answer in order to satisfy your questions.

This is how we become awesome, the Certified CodeMyConcept training!

Let’s start with Pixel Perfect‘s definition: this add-on allows web developers to easily overlay a web composition over the developed html. This Firefox add-on was created just for designers that need to make sure what’s displayed in the browser matches the PSD design and that the integrity of the designs is maintained.

One of the things you should always keep in mind are the web safe fonts. For those of you who don’t have an idea of what this is: web safe fonts are the fonts nearly universally available on any computer. That is why when any user, regardless of their device preferences, goes to the website they have the same experience as anyone else in the world.

This is what web standards are all about, please make sure the designer you are paying for you PSD design is working with web safe fonts. And if you are making your own, here are some of the fonts you can use:

• Arial
• Arial Black
• Cambria
• Century Gothic
• Comic Sans MS
• Georgia
• Impact
• Times New Roman
• Verdana

PSD to HTML

Our coders first of all got through a completely push up and mind exhausting month of the heaviest projects ever, this training is just for survivors!

They are taught about the rendering process for each software Safari, Opera, Chrome, Firefox and Explorer (no more Explorer 6, let’s help get it to 1%), it is not the same for all of them so as a client you could specify which one would be in use even though we must give you the files completely synchronized with the main five browsers.

They practice the creation of clean, flexible code for making easy any process after them; use jQuery if it is needed and the finalized website must look exactly like the PSD design, making sure font sizes and line heights are respected.

For our other process like PSD to Magento, PSD to Worpdress, PSD to Drupal and PSD to Joomla they must recheck the codes in order to edit the changes or put the pages together in order to be sent to customers to final check out.

Another very important subject is the difference between Photoshop Render and other browser renders, even though we work with HTML5 (this new version makes it easier for you to read and organize your code, and makes it easier to organize your content), with the last one you won’t achieve a 100% copy of the PSD design, why is that?

One answer is because of web safe fonts: when a designer does not use them the coder must replace them what means the design would look a little weird just because of the font, or it won’t fit the page the same way it was previewed.

Another answer is the limitations still existing in the code world about going all creative on them, but it’s getting there we hope. We dream of an era where codes would be asking designers to give them more creative ideas.

Hope we help you understand more of this wonderful area.

That’s all folks!

Joomla is one of the most flexible and user friendly content management systems ever, and not only it kicks ass when it comes to making a website user friendly to manage all content, it is also open source, meaning that it is free, and we all love it when things are free.

With Joomla, basically anyone can manage content, which can be simple text, photos, music, video, documents or anything you may want to include on your website. So how does PSD to Joomla works you wonder… is really like a walk in the park.

First of all you should know that Joomla is really good for pretty much everything and anything you can think of, based on their website and our own experience as well, you can use Joomla for:

* Corporate Web sites

* Corporate intranets and extranets

* Online magazines, newspapers, and publications

* E-commerce and online reservations

* Government applications

* Small business Web sites

* Non-profit and organizational Web sites

* Community-based portals

* School and church Web sites

* Personal or family homepages

It is very important to keep in mind that when you make the web design or hire someone to do it for you, they create this design specific for Joomla, this will really help its usability. Before submitting you web design for a PSD to Joomla conversion make sure of the following:

1. Remember that Joomla works in modules and you need to keep this in mind when you create the templates.

2. Make sure you are also aware that there are several Joomla extensions available for different purposes so your design will have to be created taking into consideration any extension you may need.

3. There are hundreds of useful resources available online to help you improve and make the best out of you web design in Joomla, make sure you do your research according to your needs.

Now converting PSD to Joomla is really easy, at CodeMyConcept we have worked on hundreds if not thousands of Joomla implementations already, all you need to know however, is that to make a successful implementation from PSD to Joomla, first the PSD has to be sliced, turned first from PSD to HTML and then it can be implemented into Joomla.

Implementation depends on how detailed and customized the design is, usually an average PSD to Joomla conversion of a project with one homepage and a couple of sub-pages takes somewhere around 4 days to be fully done and functional, this includes both the PSD to HTML conversion and the Joomla implementation itself.

We really hope this article can help you understand better how this open source CMS can help you with your website, the stuff you need to consider before deciding which CMS will truly meet your requirements and expectations regarding the creation of your website and everything related.