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Best coding resource - PSD to Wordpress?

by radar9628
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I need to find a tried and true, lower cost coding source to take PSD design files and code them for a Wordpress theme?

xhtml chop looks good but I this is new territory for me. Do you have a preferred coding resource? All I need is a landing page/header plus a secondary template page.

Thanks,
Radar
#coding #psd #resource #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    All I need is a landing page/header plus a secondary template page.
    Isn't WP an overkill for just 2 pages...?
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    • Profile picture of the author businesswebdesigner
      I was thinking that, but am sure there must be a good reason behind it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Toby Couchman
    I can make a wordpress theme for you from a psd. I'll even install a bunch of my favorite plugins to optimise your site for SEO and make it super awesome ;-)

    Chat me on skype: webberoo and I'll show you some of my recent conversions.

    MB
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  • Profile picture of the author alniches
    Actually, it would be much more cost effective and easier to slice the PSD in photoshop and save it as HTML and use standard HTML instead of WP, as it is kinda overkill as mentioned by Istvan to use WP for only a couple of pages.

    You can find some free PSD to HTML slicing tutorials quite easily too.

    Just my 2c
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    • Profile picture of the author radar9628
      Thanks for your input!

      Overkill? Not if they want a custom design and I'm not a designer or a coder. My client wants an attractive custom design landing page with custom header and will have about 4 other pages with content. The other 4 pages will just use the secondary page look and feel with unique content on each (e.g. about us, contact us, recommendations, plus a few legal pages with just text).

      They don't want to use a free WP theme, they want their own look and feel. I don't know if the designer knows how to slide the PSD in photoshop. Does that require any extra skill on her part? I don't want to get into the coder-wannabe role - I'm just trying to get it DONE.

      Plugins etc. will be handled by webmaster.
      Radar
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    • Profile picture of the author Mrunal Khatri
      Thanks a lot for sharing your feed. This kind of guidance can boost knowledge and help a lot. Keep the good work going on.
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  • Profile picture of the author CaliChristian
    Too many tutorials to name here, but if you have Photoshop and a text editor you can do it yourself:

    90 New And High Quality Photoshop Web Layout Tutorials
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    • Profile picture of the author radar9628
      Originally Posted by CaliChristian View Post

      Too many tutorials to name here, but if you have Photoshop and a text editor you can do it yourself:

      90 New And High Quality Photoshop Web Layout Tutorials
      I don't have Photoshop.
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      • Profile picture of the author 1babywarrior
        try going to Freelancer.com , you can get that taken care of in a jeffy at a great flat rate, psd to wp or html is a very common job over there. and using wp would not be overkill, its the logical choice for any stable project, static or dynamic.
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        • Profile picture of the author radar9628
          1baywarrior - thank you for your reply. I have used odesk before, but not for this purpose. I always appreciate having some experience with a freelancer first before I send a client's work there. Thank you for the validation regarding using WP too.
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  • Profile picture of the author mijagi
    Hire someone to transform your design into a wordpress theme. Never used any auto-transformation tools as I highly doubt they'll do a good job.
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    • Profile picture of the author stma
      Originally Posted by mijagi View Post

      Hire someone to transform your design into a wordpress theme. Never used any auto-transformation tools as I highly doubt they'll do a good job.
      They don't - at least not good enough for a client project.

      Google - plenty of results for psd to wordpress.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nexstair
    Hi Radar,

    I can see a lot of people going to offer their services and i appreciate it.If you are really looking to have your site ranked good in search engines with proper coding like W3C standards then you have reached to your destination.Just get in touch on skype@ getitdone47.

    And most importantly - i prefer long term relationships more the money, so expect affordable solution in quick turnaround.

    Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author marketeqmedia
    This guy is good, I have used him on 2 projects already, about to do a third one with him. Good price too, money well spent

    Send him an email: anjansid@gmail.com
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  • Profile picture of the author DarthNet
    lynda.com has a tutorial series on how to create WP templates in Dreamweaver. it starts off with a psd. I got it so its DEFINITELY out there.. trying not to break some forum rule that i havent read yet
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  • Profile picture of the author Justinspencer
    I think MarkupBox offers this PSD to Wordpress conversion services.
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