A PSD Says Less About a Website Than People Expect
Photoshop was built for images, not interfaces, and that shows up in specific, practical ways during a conversion. A PSD file is a picture of one state of one screen. It contains no information about what a button looks like when you hover it, what a form field does when the input is invalid, what happens as the layout narrows between your widest and narrowest layouts, or which parts of a section are meant to repeat when there are six items instead of three.
None of that makes a PSD unusable — we convert them regularly and the result is a proper site. It means those answers get decided somewhere, and it is better that they are decided by you at quoting time than by a developer at midnight. Send whatever notes you have alongside the file, even rough ones.
The Two Things That Cause Delays
Fonts. A PSD can use any font installed on the designer’s machine. The web needs a font you are licensed to serve to visitors, and desktop licences frequently do not cover that. If the typeface is not on Google Fonts or licensed for web use, we will need either a licence or a close substitute — and finding that out during the build is what turns a week into three.
Missing layouts. A desktop PSD alone means the mobile design does not exist yet. Somebody will design it, and if that is us rather than your designer, the result may not be what you pictured. If mobile layouts exist, send them; if they do not, tell us so we can agree the approach in advance.
Figma, XD, or a Rebuild?
If your design is still being drawn, ask your designer for Figma rather than PSD — it carries components, breakpoints and states that a PSD cannot, which usually makes the conversion cheaper and more faithful. Our Figma to WordPress page covers that route.
If the design is a single scrolling page, one page website design is often the better fit, and if you have no design at all, a full website development project includes it.