Understanding PSD to DNN Skin Conversion

DNN is the most popular and widely used CMS that supports the ASP.NET technology. Its immense popularity among business owners as well as developers is due to its great site consistency, streamlined authoring process, improved site navigation and flexibility and faster turnaround time for new pages. Today, getting a new look for your site is easy as there are many software development companies offering PSD to DNN conversion.

Having worked for various clients to help them create the best PSD to DotNetNuke skin designs, I can state that the conversion gives you much more control over your site by allowing you to manage it according to your requirements.
Here in this blog, I will outline the steps involved in the conversion.

The Process of Conversion:

     

The PSD to DNN skin conversion starts with the slicing of the image files into multi layers. The reason behind this is simple, image files saved in PSD format are static layouts and do not have any usability and movement. It is essential to convert these files into markup language like HTML as it makes the file more accessible on the WWW. The static files are hand coded by an HTML developer with clean, cross browser compatible, W3C validated codes. By using HTML/XHTML markups, a developer focuses more on adding great functionalities and easy navigation to the web pages. Errorless PSD conversion plays a critical role in developing quick loading and user friendly websites with great compatibility. They can be easily accessed from major browsers and provide a great interface to the site.

So, once the HTML files are ready, it is time to convert the web interface template into a functional DotNetNuke skin pack. Nowadays there is an increasing demand for customized designs.  A skin conversion is the process where the working HTML templates are converted into working DotNetNuke skins and containers. By creating content panes and adding relevant skin tokens, any non flash website can be converted into a DNN design. They are easy to maintain even without any designing skills and are compatible with the latest version. The sites also offer a great interface to visitors from all over the world.
This conversion process gives a smooth accessibility to the sites and due to their W3C standard valid coding; the browsers find it is easy to read the content of the website. This ultimately provides swiftness to the site and enhances the downloading speed on various servers.