In From Photoshop to HTML, Nettuts+ editor Jeffrey Way takes you through the entire process of converting a design from Photoshop into a complete HTML/CSS website!
But this is NOT just an eBook. It also comes packed with extras! You also get a directory of Photoshop, HTML and CSS files for you to use as you work through the book AND a series of 14 screencasts covering the whole project from beginning to end.
What's Covered
This eBook is for anyone who has an elementary understanding of HTML and CSS. You should be familiar with HTML tags and the most common CSS properties. Some of the topics covered in the book are as follows:
- Different methods for slicing a PSD.
- Create semantic mark-up, and learn how this HTML relates to the original PSD.
- How to utilize techniques, such as background replacement and sprite generation.
- Use custom fonts with Cufon font replacement.
- The differences between absolute and relative positioning.
- How to compensate for the dreaded Internet Explorer 6.
- Take advantage of advanced CSS3 features.
- How to take advantage of a variety of helpful browser extensions to expedite your coding.
- Utilize the jQuery library to add a touch of interactivity.
What the professionals are saying...
"Guides you through the process of converting a PSD into a standards-compliant HTML/CSS website... As long as you have an elementary understanding of HTML/CSS, this delivers exactly what the title promises."
.net Magazine
"This is what real world web designers do day in and day out, and what designers in training need to know. Jeffery Way and the folks at Envato are the perfect folks to bring it to us."
Chris Coyier - CSS Tricks
About the author
Jeffrey Way is a developer evangelist and instructor who works for Envato.
When not managing one of the most popular web development blogs in the world, Nettuts+, or creating courses for Tuts+ Premium, he enjoys playing with cutting edge web technologies, and finding new ways to teach complicated subjects and concepts, so that anyone can understand.
He is also the author of several Rockable Press books, and can typically be found scanning Twitter when he should really be getting back to work.