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The Basic Facts of PSD to Magento templates conversion

Author: Amit Sankhala
by Amit Sankhala
Posted: Sep 11, 2014

Magento has appear up as the most effectual and cause-forcible platform for e-businesses around the globe. With various interactive elements it suit easier to sick attention of a highest number of potential customers increasing the probability to increase sales volume. It is vital for any website to attract next consideration is by the look and navigability of the platform.

PSD to Magento is very much important in helping ecommerce store to the success point. Magento platform have the facility for stability and flexibility for all the business & industries for their online stores. A web site might have all the necessary elements but if it is not looking good then customers may not stay on the web site for a longer time.Magento is the best software for Ecommerce Companies or Online portal in shopping Field.

Magento comes with 2 different solutions as you might know. Magento Community release and Magento Enterprise release. Community release is meant for Community and hence it is free. Enterprise version is version for larger industry having capacity to handle lot of products, categories, customers etc. It is kind of Enterprise level solutions for businesses.

Now, you have enough knowledge about what PSD is and how it is being designed, now lets discuss on embedding the PSD design to Magento.

Things to keep in mind for PSD to Magento Conversions

  1. All the code requires for your theme should be coded inside particular theme only.
  2. Custom Code/Module should be developed within "local/community" folders.
  3. If you want to overwrite any core functionality, save them to "local/community" first and then modify the functionality.
  4. All codes OR dynamic data should be written in "block/helper".
  5. PHTML or template file should contain only HTML mark up and least PHP code.
  6. If you want to add customer css/js, add them through page.xml of your theme layout.
  7. If you are installing any custom extensions, you have to copy…paste layout and template file to your themes layout/template folder. Most of the extensions stores "layout/extensions" files in "default/default" or "base/default" folder.
  8. Make entire frontend content manageable through Admin. You can use CMS static block / Pages / Widgets for it.
  9. Create custom configuration for frontend for global things like social networking URLs, Store Phone Number, Sales email Address etc. So, it is easily editable from administration panel.

Benefits of PSD to Magento Conversions

  1. Web design / User Interface will be exactly same as you have expected. Primary advantages of having Magento conversion.
  2. Give reference to designer, send him reference website and get it implemented in your web design.
  3. Final output of the website is clear enough.
  4. Your business, your in depth knowledge and Your marketing/branding skills, you can give your inputs in these areas to your designer to get more conversion to your website at the end.
  5. Magento PSD design is bit costly but it is better to get visual display rather than revamping the website after it is designed & developed.
  6. You can plan for SEO in advance with the use of pre-defined PSD creation. Get your content in place. You can get the help of SEO experts to manage the contents for your website.

We at Sankhala Info Solutions, follows all above mentioned best magento industry practices for PSD to Magento theme conversion and we give finished products after validating it through W3C and Cross Browser Compatibility Testing. We test the web design / website in 4 different but very popular browsers. Safari, Firefox, Chrome, IE 8+.

Sankhala Info Solutions experts Provides the Best PSD to Magento theme conversion or PSD to Magento Templates conversion Service to client at affordable price.

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Sankhala Info Solutions is a professional website developing company who specializes in custom development solutions using WordPress, Magento & other web development services.

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