PSD To HTML Tutorial Using Photoshop And Dreamweaver

Decide on a simple web layout using a linear navigation and sitemap for Forever Friends Animal Rescue, featuring home, about, adopt, donate, and contact pages.

Select fonts and colors for web pages using web safe fonts, system fonts with fallbacks, and dynamic or novelty fonts, while ensuring rgb color mode and hex values display correctly.

Learn to create a website color palette in Photoshop using the color picker, eyedropper, and swatches, sampling from a graphic and saving named swatches in RGB color mode.

Set up a Photoshop document for web design, selecting the web preset, configuring 960 by 810 pixels, rgb color mode at 72 ppi, and saving with a lowercase underscore name.

Build a PSD mockup navigation from the wireframe in Photoshop, using a 960x800 rgb 72 ppi document with five button boxes and merged layers organized into layer groups for slicing.

Complete the PSD mockup by placing banners and images, aligning guides and layers in Photoshop, turning visibility on, and preparing assets for Dreamweaver integration.

Use lorem ipsum or Greek text as placeholder to visualize layout when copy is unavailable. Learn to insert and style placeholder text in Photoshop and Dreamweaver for a realistic mockup.

Import Illustrator logos into Photoshop while preserving layer transparency. Place AI files, adjust position and size, and save for web as gif or png-24 to maintain transparency.

Slice a Photoshop mockup into web-ready pieces using guides and slicing tools. Export the slices for Dreamweaver integration.

Explore the slice tool and slice select tool, including slicing from guides and layer based slices, then edit slice options to name slices, assign urls, and adjust size and position.

Learn to create layer-based slices from a Photoshop mockup, assign alt tags, and optimize images for the web using Dreamweaver.

Learn how to save for web by choosing compression settings and exporting sliced images as web-safe graphics, then organize them for Dreamweaver to build a fast-loading website.

Organize a web project with a root folder containing the site, then create lower-case subfolders, including an images folder for graphics. Photoshop will place optimized graphics in the images folder.

Set up a new site in Dreamweaver Creative Cloud with a blank page and the HTML5 doctype. Link the root folder and save an index file.

Connect your local Dreamweaver site to a web host by configuring server settings, linking domain name, name servers, and IP address, then test the connection for fast file transfers.

Explore the Dreamweaver files tab to manage local view, remote and testing servers, and repository, navigate root folders, and upload or pull files to streamline web design.

Explore Dreamweaver's code, design, and split views to build a page from a basic HTML5 skeleton, insert images, and see real-time updates as you edit code or visuals.

Build a page layout with div and AP div tags, create a container, and nest sections like banner, content, and footer in Dreamweaver, then insert images with alt text.

Open files in Dreamweaver using the file open command or the files tab, then choose all documents to see files Dreamweaver can read, create, and edit.

Add a page title, a description, and keywords in the head tags using Dreamweaver or code, to improve search engine optimization for Forever Friends Animal Rescue.

Replace placeholder slices with div tags and CSS styles to structure a site in Dreamweaver, measure with a ruler, and prepare absolute-positioned layout for banner, navigation, and footer.

Replace placeholder text with actual copy in Dreamweaver by inserting paragraph and heading tags, adding an image, and creating an external stylesheet to apply CSS using div tags.

Learn how to implement an absolute positioned ap div tag for navigation and a logo, and adjust a content area with CSS rules and a z-index in Dreamweaver.

Learn to use AP div tags with absolute positioning to create layered layouts. Place images for about us, adopt, donate, contact, home, and logo.

Explore cascading style sheets (cssa) in dreamweaver, including embedded, inline, and external cssa, and apply style rules to divs to adjust width, positioning, margins, and padding.

Learn to create new CSS style rules in Dreamweaver for a footer, using external and embedded styles, with divs and selectors, and adjust a 960-pixel wide layout.

Learn to add hyperlinks in Dreamweaver using relative and absolute links, linking internal pages and external sites, with hands-on practice across index, about, adopt, donate, and contact pages.

Compare Dreamweaver's live view with design view to see a non-editable yet realistic browser rendering. Learn that the code remains editable while you preview your page in live view.

Connect to a remote server, upload updated pages, and refresh the files tab to verify changes. Dreamweaver's get files lets you pull remote updates and compare local and remote views.

Use Dreamweaver to view your PSD-to-HTML site in a browser via live view or preview, spot fixed navigation issues, and compare rendering in Firefox for an accurate live view.

Turn a Photoshop mockup into a full website with Dreamweaver, covering color and font selection, slicing and optimizing graphics, organizing files, and basic div tags with css.