Service · from $159
PSD to Joomla development
A custom Joomla 5 template built the way Joomla intends — named module positions, clean overrides and a child template that survives updates.
Joomla’s strength has always been the structure it gives you out of the box: multilingual content, granular access control and a genuine user permission model without a single extension. A template built to work with that structure rather than around it is a very capable site.
The work starts by reading your design as a set of positions. Every region an editor should be able to change — the utility bar, the navigation, a promotional strip, sidebars, the footer columns — becomes a named module position, declared in the template manifest and documented at handover. Get this wrong and your team ends up hard-coding content into the template, which is how a Joomla site becomes unmaintainable.
Presentation for content comes from template overrides. Rather than editing component or module code — which an update will overwrite — we place overrides inside the template, so articles, category blogs, menus, pagination and search results all render in your markup while the underlying extensions stay stock and updatable.
We build as a child template where it fits. A child template inherits from its parent and carries only your changes, which keeps updates cheap and makes it obvious what has been customised. When the design is far enough from anything existing to make inheritance pointless, we build a standalone template and say so.
Assets are registered through the Web Asset Manager rather than dropped into the document head. Stylesheets and scripts get declared with their dependencies and load order, so a third-party extension cannot quietly break your layout by loading something in the wrong sequence — a failure mode that used to be routine on Joomla sites.
Accessibility is taken seriously here for a reason. Joomla 4 made a deliberate push on it, and a large share of Joomla sites belong to public sector bodies, universities and non-profits with statutory obligations. Templates are built to WCAG 2.2 AA — real landmarks, a correct heading structure, visible focus, full keyboard operation and a skip link that works.
Multilingual sites are configured as part of the build when you need them: language associations, the language switcher module styled to your design, and right-to-left stylesheets where the site publishes in Arabic or Hebrew.
What the template includes
- Every editable region in your design declared as a named module position
- Template overrides for articles, categories, menus, pagination and search results
- A child template where inheritance makes sense, so updates stay cheap
- Assets registered through the Web Asset Manager with dependencies and load order declared
- Custom fields and category layouts modelled around your content types
- Multilingual configuration and RTL stylesheets where the site needs them
- WCAG 2.2 AA structure — landmarks, heading order, visible focus, working skip link
Still on Joomla 3? It reached end of life, so an upgrade is a security matter rather than a preference. We quote the template rebuild and the migration together.
PSD to Joomla starts at $159
Send your design and get a fixed quote — usually within a few hours.
- Joomla 5
- Module Positions
- Overrides
- Child Template
- Multilingual
- Accessible
- Joomla 5
- Module Positions
- Overrides
- Child Template
- Multilingual
- Accessible
FAQ
PSD to Joomla — questions we get asked
Which Joomla version do you build for?
Do you set up module positions?
What is a template override and why does it matter?
Can you migrate my existing content?
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