One of the hardest parts of converting a PSD design into a well structured and semantic CSS/HTML layout is first knowing where to start. Although that may sound simplistic and obvious, it really does matter how you begin and that you build on strong foundations to start with. In this series of articles I will take you step by step through the conversion process and look at decisions that need to made on the way and how those decisions may need to adapt as things progress. The article will not address any specific graphic techniques (e.g. slicing and optimising) as this varies from paint package to package and is not the subject of the article. You will of course need to know how to do these things and I am assuming that you already have this basic knowledge.

Part 2 of our tutorial. In part 1 we created the basic structure of the site on which we are going to build our photography site. This is the second in our 4 part series on how to take a PSD file and convert it into a fully CSS based html site. These are the first in a series of tutorials in which we build a fully working Photography site, all in clean Xhtml and CSS. All the code, templates and files are available for you to play with

Coding CSS can quickly get out of control. By following a few simple guidelines you can make your life a lot easier.

The final installment of the popular series on how to take a Photoshop PSD and turn it into a fully working XHTML webpage. The tutorial is based around a photography site. Part 4 deals with the final right hand column, some IE fixes and the awkward search box embeded within the image header.