How to Convert a Slick PSD Design to XHTML/CSS

Styling the #header

Now we need to style the header. We will make the #header div 68px in height with a dark gray/black background and a 2px bottom border. I decided to put the logo text to a negative -9999px to make it so that you can make your own image the background. We then need to make the navagtion items float left so they are horizontal. Finally we make a .active class to show the current page in the menu.

#header {
	background: #171717;
	border-bottom: 2px solid #252525;
	height: 68px;
}

#header #logo {
	float: left;
	text-indent: -9999px;
}

#header ul {
	float: right;
	height: 68px;
	padding: 17px 0;
}

#header ul li {
	color: #D1D1D1;
	display: block;
	float: left;
	font: bold 10px Verdana;
	padding: 10px 15px;
}

#header ul li a {
	color: #D1D1D1;
	text-decoration: none;
}

#header ul li a:hover {
	color: #FFF;
}

#header ul li:hover a {
	color: #FFF;
}

#header ul li.active {
	background: #252525;
	border-radius: 2px;
		-webkit-border-radius: 2px;
		-moz-border-radius: 2px;
		-o-border-radius: 2px;
}

#header ul li.active a {
	color: #FFF;
}

#header ul li:last-child {
	padding: 10px 0 10px 15px;
}

Checkpoint

Your page should now look like this.

checkpoint 2

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10 Responses »

  2. Bryan Abad
    September 16, 2010 • 11:29

    Brilliant tutorial I will have to try it out asap.
    Thanks alot ^^

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  3. Designbyarm
    September 16, 2010 • 15:07

    Awesome Tutorial.

    Thanks you for share.

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  4. Wing Loon
    September 17, 2010 • 12:10

    Good tutorial for beginner like me, thank you 🙂

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  5. Amr ElGarhy
    September 18, 2010 • 15:32

    Very good tutorial, It covered a lot of things, thanks

    Reply to this comment
  7. Tumbleweed
    September 21, 2010 • 02:42

    Dude, charset before title. 🙂

    Reply to this comment
  8. pitso
    October 11, 2010 • 11:49

    i’m going to have to take time on this one.thanks for sharing

    Reply to this comment