PSD web templates.?

Question

Im used to web designing using HTML. However their seems to be some popularity with PSD websites whenever you search for web templates.

What am i meant to do with these?

I have Adobe Photoshop but why would i use a Image editing program to change the text on a website.

This is really puzzling me?

Can someone give me a brief description of why these are used and why they are PSD files..

Example, how would i make a hyperlink :/

Answer 1

You need "Dreamweaver"(or other WYSIWYG HTML editors) to edit text and hyperlink.

You also have to prepare images by hide text layers inside Photoshop and save the images to use on Dreamweaver.

If you need tutorials then you may try http://www.pixel2life.com

Answer 2

PSD files are the compiled image (layers, effects etc...) in Photoshop. Only Photoshop can read those files, and it isn't possible to be displayed in any browser.

A PSD is like an image, theres no code, no content, just an image readable by Photoshop. If you were however to slice that "image" and save it as numerous gif, png, jpg etc. images, you could put it all together with coding in HTML/PHP etc.

Answer 3

i do web design and when i use photoshop i only design a template for the site. i thenk chop it up (slice tool) and use that as a background. i do everything else in HTML/javascript/css/etc.