PSD to HTML Reviews & Tutorials

Converting design files (PSD, PNG, AI etc) to high quality, cross-browser compatible valid top-notch XHTML/ CSS semantic markup manually has never been easy, as it takes lot of time and precision. Coding has always been an art as it deals with many issues such as W3C Valid CSS / HTML standards, SEO optimization and keeping the design unaltered after coding, in order to maintain the look and feel of the design which can attract millions of visitors to your website.

Noticing the importance of PSD Slicing, we decided to write a review about PSD Slicers but writing a review for all the service providers does not seem to be quite feasible to us. So we decided to merge the name of first 20 PSD to HTML service providers. The fundamentals on which the rankings are pronounced are defined below:

• Market Reputation
• Brand Popularity
• Quality of Work
• Turn around time and
• Pricing

* You may wonder that turn around time and pricing are almost same to every service provider, so how it could be among decisive factors? Producing finest of service under same price tag and prescribed turn around time shows the passion and diligence in work.

The reason why these companies are on top of the chart is they understand the industry standards and at times even raise the quality benchmark.

Below are the screen-shots of the companies along with their website link.

01. Pixelcrayons

02. PSD2HTML

03. W3-markup

04. Markup4u

05. CSSrockstars

06. Markup-service

07. XHTML4u

08. XHTMLized

09. Thechoppr

10. HTMLblender

11. QualityXHTML

12. XHTMLslicer

13. CSSninjas

14. Slicendiceit

15. HTMLcut

16. Slicemydesign

17. Finelysliced

18. Yodiv

19. PSDslicing

20. XHTMLizers

21. SlicingPSDtoHTML

Many web designers find it difficult to convert their Photoshop designs into valid HTML/XHTML markups, either due to work load or in-efficiency in quality conversion. This gives a rise to the need of quality PSD tutorials for those who can not outsource their work or wants to learn on their own.

Below are the 20+ best PSD to HTML tutorials which are selected form all over the Internet. This post can certainly help you to learn or clear your doubts regarding PSD slicing.

1. The Design Lab: PSD Conversion

2. From PSD to HTML, Building a Set of Website Designs Step by Step

3. Coding: Design Lab TV Styled Layout

4. PSD to CSS/HTML in Easy Steps – Part 1

5. Slice and Dice that PSD

6. Converting a Photoshop Mockup: Part Two, Episode One

7. Build a Sleek Portfolio Site from Scratch

8. Portfolio Layout – Learn To Code It

9. Converting a Design From PSD to HTML

10. How to Convert a PSD to XHTML

11. How to Convert PSd to Html

12. Creating a CSS Layout from scratch

13. PSD > HTML/CSS

14. Encoding a Photoshop Mockup into XHTML & CSS

15. Css Template Tutorial

16. Portfolio Layout 4: The Code

17. Tutorial Coding a Layout

18. Converting a Photoshop Mockup

19. Killer site – From Illustrator to Xhtm to Drubal

20. From PSD to HTML

21. Coding a Car Sales Layout

Need of XHTML
XHTML became a W3C recommendation in 2000, and within the next five years we did see many websites framed in XHTML standard.

Prior to XHTML, HTML was the successfully running coding standard on the web, and shared wide popularity. But the amazing thing however is that even after the release of XHTML as the new recommended markup language, HTML did not cease to evolute. Neither did the websites which were framed in HTML stopped to function.

HTML uses XSL to transform it into XML and that too only when HTML is also a well formed XML. Whereas in XHTML, direct transformation with XML can take place.

XHTML was a recommendation of W3C, but it did not condemn the earlier language. Webmasters were also reluctant to use XHTML any soon, given the complexity it involved and the skepticism that comes with everything that’s new. Few webmasters also believed that XHTML would slow down the browser’s speed. To a casual Internet user, an application seems fine as long as it is visually satisfying and user friendly. The HTML websites were running successfully and web designers found it irrelevant to switch to any new method.

Yet the advanced technologies hammered the need of XHTML, and this pushed the designers to leave their doubts and accept XHTML as a comfortable mark-up language. XHTML on the better side, is not entirely different from HTML. They aren’t two different languages altogether. They can be said as two different dialects of the same language.

Benefits of XHTML
They say, “Necessity is the mother of all inventions”. The need for XHTML did not show up when HTML was used successfully by web designers, because that era was not marked by the advanced technologies. Coding was desktop complaint but did not consider the compatibility with 3G Phones. Neither did it apprehend the fast arrival of different web browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla and others.

Also, the cascading style sheet is capable of controlling all the aspects of page presentation and layout. This saves a lot of precious time of the coder and also helps to cut down the amount of code needed to display a web page properly. So in this context, XHTML offers a dual benefit. And as all major browsers support the Cascading Style Sheets, they can be used without any hitch.

HTML doesn’t bother about proper nesting of the tags, whereas XHTML considers proper nesting of tags which makes it syntax error free.