Essential Web Designers Guide on PSD to HTML/CSS

If you’re a Web Designer you should be spending most of your time creating unique and creative designs for your customers. Web designers need to know some aspects of web development to understand what is possible and where the technical limitations are but should code the web pages themselves too?.

Unless you’re a designer/developer multi the process of converting a design into web pages can be really hard and seriously time consuming. Doing it right requires deep knowledge of several technologies and good programming skills. This is especially true when a client requires the pages to be complying with and validating against most of specifications and standards available. In this situation there are different options you may choose from. First of all you can consider not to do it yourself and get some professional help. Obviously this has a cost but you may be spending your own time on productive work in stead of struggling with stuff you’re not comfortable with. You may consider to team up with a skilled programmer or try one of the companies specializing in slicing up a web design. If you on the other hand decide to do it yourself you should get some help anyway.

PSD to HTML Services

PixelCrayons

Convert your designs from various common image formats (PSD, JPG, GIF, PNG, AI) into hand coded cross-browser compatible W3C validated XHTML / CSS markup.

xhtml.pixelcrayons.com have 2 packages available but they are open for customizing packages to customer needs. They offer 50% discount on additional pages. Turnaround time is great / first page will be delivered within 8 hours. In addition to traditional slicing this company offer implementation of themes to most popular CMS systems at an additional cost.

Basic Package ($100)
Markups: HTML 4.01 Transitional, XHTML 1.0 Transitional
W3C Validation: CSS, XHTML & HTML
Browsers Compatibility: I.E 6.x / 7.x, Mozilla Firefox, Safari
Markups: HTML 4.01 Transitional, HTML 4.01 Strict, XHTML 1.0 Transitional, XHTML 1.0 Strict
W3C Validation: CSS2 (Advanced CSS Code Structure), XHTML & HTML
Includes: SEO Semantic Code, Load Speed Optimization, Complete Presentation Separation, Maximum Cross-Browser Compatibility

PSD2CSS Online

This is a free online tool for converting PSD files into XHTML. Upload your file and it will produce the code.

psd2cssonline

The site will almost certainly not appeal to veteran designers as nothing beats the work of an artist. Make sure that you take time to read the privacy policy on the site before uploading your designs.

psd2html

Deliver cross-browser compatible W3C Valid XHTML / CSS markup based on PSD, PNG, AI, and even existing markup as source files.

psd2html

PSD2HTML offer 2 packages. Each unique additional page is discounted by 50%. Turnaround time is good / first page will be delivered within 8 hours. In addition to traditional slicing this company offer implementation of themes to most popular CMS systems at an additional cost.
Professional Package $159
W3C Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional Table-less CSS markup. Compatible with IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari with W3C Valid Shorthand and Optimized CSS.
Hi-End Package $217
The highest level markup available. W3C Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict Table-less CSS markup under SEO Semantic Coding, Complete Presentational Separation techniques. Special attention to Load Speed optimization.

htmlblender.com

htmlBlender provides coding services in XHTML & CSS with fast delivery times on hand coded markup with cross browser compatibility. Coding options include table or table-less design, SEO semantic coding, script integration and more. Compliance options range from W3C Valid HTML 4.01 to W3C Valid XHTML 1.0 strict.

Turnaround – 8 hours

Price – $95 (table) $149 (table-less)

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Lemberg

This service is a bit different as it offers a significant discount if you’re not in a hurry.

Turnaround – 1 day and up (short for higher price)
Starting price – $54
Additional pages – $54 (depends on # of pages and turnaround)

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