How to Convert a Slick PSD Design to XHTML/CSS

Styling the #featured Welcome Text

We will start the #featured section by adding the sliced background to the div. It will be positioned horizontally centered so that even though it is bigger than some screens it will still be centered. Next we will take the heading and make the text invisible so we can take our welcome slice and add it as the background. We will finish it off by styling the text to a light green/white and giving it a nice CSS Drop Shadow.

#featured {
	background: #476D13 url('layout/header.png') no-repeat center top;
	height: 290px;
}

#featured #welcome {
	float: left;
	width: 440px;
}

#featured #welcome h2 {
	background: url('layout/welcome.png') no-repeat left top;
	line-height: 57px;
	padding: 0 0 20px;
	text-indent: -9999px;
}

#featured #welcome p {
	color: #FFF;
	font: 10px Verdana;
	line-height: 20px;
	margin: 15px 0;
	text-shadow: 0px 1px 0px #3F6211;
		-webkit-text-shadow: 0px 1px 0px #3F6211;
		-moz-text-shadow: 0px 1px 0px #3F6211;
		-o-text-shadow: 0px 1px 0px #3F6211;
}

Styling the #slider

The slider is very easy to style, we set the height and width of the frame and make it so that the other sides that overflow the #slider boundries do not show.

#featured #slider {
	float: right;
	position: relative;
	width: 512px;
	overflow: hidden;
}

#slider #frame {
	background: transparent url('layout/frame.png') no-repeat center top;
	height:300px;
	position: absolute;
		top: 0;
		left: 0;
	width: 512px;
	z-index: 100;
}

Checkpoint

Your page should now look like this.

checkpoint 3

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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