Divine plugin

Divine plugin (also called Divine Project) is a web product created for conversion of a PSD template to a ready theme website CMS. The first plugin's versions, Divine Free and Personal Edition, mean theme creation for Wordpress CMS.
History
Divine plugin is the brainchild of Divine team. The first attempts to realize the project were made early in 2007, but there were no required resources and team members for the project's start-up till October, 2008. The first stable release of Divine Free Edition 0.5.0 was presented in July, 2009 as a simple possibility to convert a PSD template to a Wordpress theme.
What it is for
Website development is a comprehensive complex process that combines modern technologies, professionalism, intellect and experience of website creators. There are several life cycle steps, such as analysis, specification building, design, content writing, etc, in this process. One of the stages of website creation is conversion of design (usually in PSD format) to HTML. And the purpose of Divine plugin's creation is to automatize this stage of website development.
How it works
Divine Free Edition was created as the first tech demo of Divine plugin. It allows users to turn PSD to Wordpress CMS theme avoiding technical side of the work.
There are several steps to be followed with Divine plugin to create an operative Wordpress theme:
* launch Photoshop,
* choose and open a ready-made template,
* launch Divine plugin,
* assign required elements,
* set FTP account,
* press "Publish" and the theme will be uploaded in a browser.
More information on Divine plugin's installation and publishing of a valid Wordpress theme is provided in instructions and video-tutorials at the official site.
Features
Convert PSD to HTML
PSD conversion to HTML is what Divine plugin was developed for. This web product supports all the Photoshop filters, masks, layer effects, blending options, etc.
Creation of a Wordpess theme in several minutes
Divine plugin gives an opportunity to design an own Wordpress theme and get it immediately. It also allows to convert graphics to a ready-made site in a few clicks.
Embedded Layout editor
This instrument of Divine plugin allows to create any user page layout and also save time greatly on theme creation.
Optimized for speed load
Divine technology produces a logically correct code. Single groups/images are formed by multiple layers on the basis of logical connections.
Popular CMS support
Use of Divine Free or Personal Edition of Divine plugin helps to create any number of unique themes for Wordpress CMS.
W3C valid shorthand and optimized CSS
Because of Divine the ready-made code is the most readable one and web pages are compatible with all browsers at their most.
Table-less coding
No tables are used for the page markup, and the code is optimized and agreed to modern web-design requirements.
Minimal knowledge about site creation
It doesn't require deep knowledge of Photoshop, the basics of Photoshop and web-technologies are completely enough.
SEO friendly
Divine plugin allows to customize title / keywords / description for each web page / site, what contributes to the code optimization to get the top results in the search engines.
Release history
The first stable version Divine Free Edition 0.5.0 was released in July, 2009.
Support service
To collect opinions, suggestions, criticism and discussion on Divine plugin and its work, a separate service, called Ideastrunk, was created by Divine project team. The main purpose of this service is to give plugin’s customers an opportunity to be on the peak of modern technologies’ possibilities in websites creation.

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