My last two posts (Part 1 and Part 2) discussed various tips and tricks for designing for content management systems (CMS) in Photoshop. So far we’ve covered how to get set up and get started, as well as some of the main components of a CMS website like the background, navigations, columns and content blocks. This week’s post is about how to finish things off and add polish with headings, footers and lots of fine-tuning.

Usually the first thing that comes to a designer’s mind when designing a website for a Content Management System (CMS) like Drupal is the “boring square style.” It can be challenging to have an out-of-the-box design that is still flexible enough to be scalable, but it is possible. You might say that in order to be truly creative a designer needs some rules to break, and the tight boundaries that can come with designing for a CMS can offer new challenges. This is why designing for Drupal is anything but boring – it can be interesting and challenging for any designer.

When a page no longer exists on your site, a visitor will see a 404 page.