Have you noticed how regular web pages look so small on the iPhone? By default the Safari browser shows you the whole web page which is supposed to be a LOT bigger than the iPhone display. But some sites have great 'mobile' versions of their site that fit and behave perfectly on the iPhone.

Now instead of learning all the javascript and browser detection scripting required to do that, you can just use psd2css Online and have your iPhone web app design coded and working in seconds.

Last night I was honored that Vinnie Lauria, the guy who runs the Silicon Valley NewTech Meetup, was good enough to give me a spot at the meetup to present psd2css Online. The SVNewTech meetup is a fantastic group of Silicon Valley insiders who meet to see new products, to network, and get involved with one another's efforts. The people are great and I highly recommend that you take in a meetup there if you can - but sign up early, the meetings tend to fill up quickly.

We're looking for some help here at the psd2css Online. Check out the job descriptions:

Professional Services Developer

Yep - the beta version of WordPress Themes from Photoshop Designs is working. Give it a try!

Here's the demo site:
http://wordpress.psd2cssonline.com

The only 2 regions supported so far are content_wordpress and sidebar_wordpress. Sidebar has all the same menu and search functionality that the sidebar in the classic theme included with WordPress has. Later I'll be adding support for all of those sections and more separately too so you can define where each part goes (a search bar at the top of the page for example).

This is possibly the most requested tutorial yet. A way to create a feedback form so your users can leave their thoughts, ideas and/or requests privately for you.

We have a video tutorial that shows off a more advanced example of the technique, but I'll describe a simpler way to get a form that sends you email here too.

First, the video:

So how exciting was THAT?! Can you say Risk Mitigation? wow.

So that was the mad scramble of what to do when your ISP disappears without notice.

We are nearly completely back online. The service to you the end user is exactly as it was before the problem started. The forums, the blog, the tutorials and the documentation are all back online too. Whew.

I added a CSS Reset to the output from psd2css Online today. Just do your HTML, Drupal or Joomla conversion and you will get it automatically.

I've gotten a number of questions that boil down to different browsers having different default settings for some kinds of elements that you can put in your page. I've been frustrated occasionally too when the content of a _text layer doesn't line up exactly at the top due to a default margin on a paragraph element for a given browser.

I'll be demonstrating the Drupal features of psd2css Online at the Orange County PHP/Drupal Meetup on Thursday, February 5. Check here for info:

http://www.meetup.com/oc-php/calendar/9480113/

Demos, examples, Q&A. Come and see how simple it is to create a complete Drupal Theme with psd2css Online.

It seems there is a common misconception about how to define a region when using the Drupal and Joomla Theme building features in psd2css Online. The bottom line is that those layers you define that are named with the _joomla or _drupal Layer Naming Conventions get replaced by the content - they don't act as the background to the content. If you want a background (or border, etc.) for each region of content, you need to design that into your Photoshop file separately.

Here is the PSD used in the video:
http://psd2cssonline.com/tutorials/regions/Regions.psd

A lot of people have been asking how to make the borders or the design of the page expand along with the Drupal content when designing a Drupal Theme. There's an old example for regular HTML/CSS pages in the video tutorials (http://psd2cssonline.com/node/64), but I decided to make another example that is Drupal specific as well.

Here is the example site:
http://drupalexpand.psd2cssonline.com/

Here is the PSD file used to make that theme:
http://psd2cssonline.com/tutorials/drupal/DrupalGrow.psd.