I do wireframes with paper and a pen for mobile, tablet, and then browser. Then I create a PSD mockup for the browser version as the tablet and mobile are going to be the same style wise and then wireframes keep you right. Then I code it all up. This might seem like a long winded and time consuming process but I think planning out a project like this before hand makes coding it a breeze. Also the overall quality of the site compared to one just coded will be dramatically different, at least when I do it.
The process you described is not what this article is talking about. Prototyping in PSD is still fine, sometimes needed more on some projects than others. Yeah I agree.. I think that the article really needs to delineate that in its header. I agree! So much more of the heavy lifting should be done in code now with responsive design.
For web purpose its fastest and those familiar with it have to agree. Fireworks is not dead — Adobe still keeps it around. You just have to look for it. Because it uses vectors instead of pixels, it can more readily apply to responsive design than the pixels in Photoshop. Thank you for this! This has been a hot topic and something I very much believe in. Its a great concept.
However, Nick, I pose this question to you as its something I have thought a lot about regarding this subject:. Could it? Or is there a need for such a waterfall process with such large companies in play? Why not? Only the most bespoke web app that needs to support old versions of IE should still be doing this. Still, their numbers are dwindling. CSS is the way forward. Bespoke, while used often in relation to clothing, is not being used as such here.
In either case, it means something custom-made, usually something designed and made exclusively for the purchaser. Totally in agreement with this. I think one of the biggest missing pieces is client and stakeholder education. We need to start focusing on the broader picture of things, and helping our clients do the same.
This way of working might be slightly slower but hey, it works for me and many others I totally agree with you! Photoshop is a great program to visualise thoughts and create a first version of a design. And then I got it as I read through. The title is too literal, actually.
This was usually done by the legendary likes of Jeffrey Way Tutsplus to help beginners pave their way into the industry without flooding them with everything required to do a production level coding. Starting in code just moves too slow. Interesting read and may work for some. In my experience best results are achieved when experts in design work with experts in development, not a single role doing both design and front-end. Totally agree with this. In my experience both at big agencies, small agencies, startups, as a freelancer, and an in-house designer, not very many talented designers are talented developers, and vice versa.
Those that are truly talented at both are very rare unicorns. This is similar to how interior designers or architects are not the construction experts building the house — they are trained in 2 different arenas. I am a trained designer and not a developer , and I need to use photoshop to concept and plot out a good design. I present the high fidelity mockups to the talented developers I work with, and we see how close we can get to that design. My developer colleagues also give me input and insight about cool things that can enhance that design.
From there, we go back and forth, and things naturally evolve. This has always been the case with a psd to html workflow — things just evolve in that translation from a visual blueprint to an execution on the web.
Not having a solid mockup gives you no solid design foundation, and runs the risk of creating a frankenstein of a site. It makes me question whether the leaders at Treehouse have really had that much experience outside of small, nimble startup scenarios where every team member has to wear multiple hats. I assume: 1 they are startups, as you mentioned, a handful of people in one team, all on the same page from the beginning when it comes to design; 2 they are developers who have been toying with design some, and now feel like the wall has been broken down forever, without even wiling to delve deeper and pay all the attention this whole issue deserves.
Photoshop is dead, all designers should code etc. Nick is not saying that. While the concept of style tiles and other methods are conceptually great, the idea of getting client buy-in without some sort of high-level iteration is very difficult to manage.
Getting everyone on the same page — designers, developers, clients and stakeholders requires a way to speak the same language.
Man that last paragraph is pure gold! So so true I wish this idea would permeate the web design field and make it better. You will always need a well designed, solid mockup for clients, designers and developers to refer to at various stages of the process. Having a designer work with developers is an awesome way to go about it.
Then the actual website ends up designed and developed well. Generally, as a developer, I get a design and have to try to match it in development with no communication to the designer again outsourced designs. So, as a conclusion.. I can see your point though, the process has to evolve. I hear you. Only issue with it? My mistake, it was their reflow tool that it integrates with.
I hope to see more oddball integrations and scripting in the future from Adobe. For me, I could start the design process in code, but that often feels sluggish compared to the speed Photoshop affords me. This way you give the client some expectations for design language and it becomes a lot easier to apply it to the final product.
We start our design process with style tiles now, but finish the page templates old fashioned using Photoshop. Photoshop: Click, drag, drag, drag. Paper: Draw, erase, draw, erase, erase, new paper, draw, erase. There is little that is easier than quickly sketching ideas on paper or a whiteboard. I agree Larry. I have also found Illustrator to be a great asset when designing.
That being said, the speed Illustrator lends to create an idea, wireframes or concepts, is a breeze. Especially when you take into account how much is re-created in CSS, all we need is a reference. Photoshop with all the layers and the constant labeling needed to keep a file from turning into a monster, can be a job in itself.
The advantages to vector design are abundant and the scalability lends perfectly to the wide array of devices and their screen resolutions currently in the market and those on the horizon. Figure out which set of users is more important to you, design a site which is technically feasible to code, but do it in a layout or graphics program I use vector programs like Inkscape usually, as they afford me more flexibility when it comes time to demo multi-resolution assets on the layout.
Make sure your site either is flexible enough to reflow in CSS, or you have enough resources to basically redo it for other device families. Then when you have that all, code a website to the spec, make tweaks as you go put them on your original design documents so you have a good reference. And of course, do this as a team if you have the resources. Nor do I think that a team automatically translates to a better website.
Having the resources is different than using them effectively. For me designing the first bits in a visual editor rather than code still makes sense other brain hemisphere and so on…. But Photoshop feels outdated for nowadays web design requirements. I started using Sketch. It still not perfect in some ways, but has some nice advantages over Photoshop copy css attributes, auto export 2x images and much more.
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Benjamain on January 22, at am said:. Now save the image from the. Just select the layer with the image and left-click on the eye icon while holding down Alt. Select the missing layer with the image. Select the required image area and save it as bg-hero. The property background-size: cover; tells the browser to stretch the background image to its maximum size by either width or height. You can learn more about this property here.
Save the logo in a PNG24 format and name it logo. I gave the class. Measure the top margin between the logo and the top of the page in Photoshop. The CSS code will look as follows:. The property float: left; is necessary to wrap further elements around the current one.
Now style the site navigation. Each element has its own navigation icon. To minimize the time it takes the page to load, create a sprite or a combination of multiple images from the icons , so the browser will load one image instead of three. To do this, create a new document in Photoshop and drag every icon into it. You need to set the.
Since it is a list and its items are arranged vertically by default, you need to wrap them using float: left;. Each menu item has a gray border to the left, so set border-left: 1px solid 2cd; for each element.
As you can see, all the elements are in their places, but the header and background are still missing. This is due to the float on the elements inside the header. You just need a small fix, also known as a clearfix. Now, style the menu. Set the white color to the links, specify margins I applied display: block to the links to increase their area and remove underlines from the links.
Set the font family for the menu. The font is Open Sans and you can find it in the Google fonts directory. When you find it, click on the following button:. Since it is the main font on the page and the menu according to the design, you can set this font family for the entire document. Also, you can define the main color and the size at 16px of the text in the document. Now add buttons. Just add position: relative; to the tag a and encode icons with a pseudo-element. Set the parameters size and position of the sprite of the required icon for each link.
I like to use this tool for this task. Upload the sprite, click on the icon, and get its size and position in the sprite. Add the content of this block to HTML.
You have a headline, one paragraph of text, and two buttons with the same style but different colors. Despite being knowledgeable enough about the technology, experts fail to design error-free and validated web solutions.
These failed attempts are the mistakes that are made during the conversion process. The conversion needs to be skillfully done under the supervision of experts by utilising the latest tools.
Any mistake made at the time can result in long-lasting bad effects for the business as well as the site. As the saying goes, prevention is better than cure, you need to look for ways that can help you avoid them in the future. Just by failing to close the tag at the wrong place could lead to site inaccessibility. This is a severe mistake that needs to be taken care of in order to improve accessibility and usability.
Most developers who are inexperienced do not close tags that need to be closed properly either by adding a closing tag at the end or placing closing slash in the end. Special characters should be used in small numbers because there might be possibilities when search engines fail to read them. So in a nutshell, it is important to look for a professional and reliable PSD to HTML conversion provider to design an attractive website.
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