Fastest Way To Get Your Web Design Coded
Choosing the right markup services for your PSD designs is one of the most difficult business decisions one would ever had to make. The reason why this is so difficult, because you want your design to be well coded, SEO friendly markup, bugs free and most importantly it should satisfy your needs.
We also realized early on in the play that the quality of the markup services provider and delivery timelines are much more important than the offered price, because a website can build or break your reputation.
To make this decision quick and easy, we did some research over the web and also asked around then ended up with this list of some of the most reliable and trustworthy markup service providers which can help you discover the fastest way to get your web design coded.
You may wonder that turnaround 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 turnaround time shows the passion and diligence in work.
There are certainly plenty of slicing services around and one thing I’ve found is that you often fall victim to the coding approach that the developer has taken. With the plethora of CSS techniques, people are bound to use different solutions to achieve the same goal. One thing I’m learning over time is to be very specific about what my requirements are including whether CSS resets should be used.
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Fastest Way To Get Your Web Design Coded
There are hundreds of conversion service providers online waiting to be paid for. Some of them are worth it, some are not. Just because many of these providers decided to stay with flashy marketing techniques only, that doesn’t mean you should not have to research about their reliability.
After worked in the web business world for several years, We (plus many other fallow designers) also had to deal with many conversion services providers and we learned that you always need to take care many things like delivery timeline, quality of work, customer service & billing, price & value for money and finally reputation around before considering anyone from the available options. Let’s have a look at this list of best conversion service providers which are purely based on our (we + our other designer friends) past experiences with them.
01. W3-markup
W3 Markup is an HTML slicing company that can take a Photoshop PSD or Fireworks file and produce the HTML and CSS to go with it. Most slicing services don’t put much effort into the order process. It’s usually a simple form with a file upload field and that’s it. Or, if the company is just one or two guys, email is usually the primary option. Not so with W3 MARKUP. They have one of the most complete and thorough ordering forms I’ve ever seen. They have also been on delivery time, which is just fantastic for designers like us. For example, If I had requested 1 days but did so late in the night (somewhere around 12:00 AM). I was surprised to find the final deliverables ready within 18 hours.
Important Details
- Offered Price: $409 for 1 XHTML/CSS Page
- Delivery Time: 1 Day
- Offered Offered Coding Types: XHTML/CSS, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla
Delivery Time Rating: 5/5
Value For Money Rating: 4.5/5
Customer Support Rating: 5/5
02. PSD2HTML
PSD2HTML are one of the first companies to provide markup service. PSD2HTML provides fast high-quality conversion of graphic design for Web into Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and its extensions. They accept source files in all common formats (PSD, PNG, AI etc.) and even HTML (existing markup). Anyway, the communication with them is very clear and focusing on main aspects of project. The final turnaround was nice and quick. I had a single page design with 4 slight layout variations and I received the final results within 2 business days, so I can say it’s quite satisfying.
Important Details
- Offered Price: $159 for 1 XHTML/CSS Page
- Delivery Time: 1 Days (8 Business Hrs)
- Offered Coding Types: XHTML/CSS, WordPress, Movable Type, Drupal, Joomla, Blogger, CubeCart, ExpressionEngine, Magento
Delivery Time Rating: 4.5/5
Value For Money Rating: 5/5
Customer Support Rating: 4.5/5
03. Markup-Service
Markup-Service provides hand-coded conversion of your designs into high quality, W3C valid XHTML/CSS. They guarantee that the code they provide will match the design perfectly. They focus on Load Speed Optimization, SEO Semantics and Accessibility. They also make sure that the code they produce will correspond to all the modern standards of XHTML/CSS coding.
Important Details
- Offered Price: $139 for 1 XHTML/CSS Page
- Delivery Time: 1 Days (8 Business Hrs)
- Offered Coding Types: XHTML/CSS, WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Shopify, Light CMS, ExpressionEngine
Delivery Time Rating: 4.5/5
Value For Money Rating: 5/5
Customer Support Rating: 4/5
04. RapidxHTML
RapidxHTML is one of the newest but very efficient and reliable player in this list. It might occur to you that how RapidxHTML made to this list but our experiences with them is quite fabulous and unique. We have been utilizing their services since last one year and the service are very fast, efficient, inexpensive and of an outstanding quality. I’m always hesitant to outsource work but luckily when it comes to HTML/CSS I’ve had one or two people that I can rely on. So I was a little nervous to see what kind of code I’d get back from RapidxHTML and how much extra work I’d need to put into it. At it turns out, the code I got from them turned out to be very good and actually closer to my own coding style than any other service I’ve used. They also accept source files in all common formats (PSD, PNG, AI etc.) and even HTML (existing markup).
Importent Details
- Offered Price: $100 for 1 XHTML/CSS Page
- Delivery Time: 1 Days (8 Business Hrs)
- Offered Coding Types: XHTML/CSS, Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Blogger, Magento
Delivery Time Rating: 5/5
Value For Money Rating: 5/5
Customer Support Rating: 4.5/5
05. SlicenDiceit
SlicenDiceit conversion services are committed to creating standards compliant, semantic code. One of the key advantages to this service is the ability to work directly with their staff during the construction process. However, even without that, you can provide an incredible amount of detail concerning the development in the advance specifications. They don’t charge extra for table free code or better markup. Every layout they do comes standard with table-free code, cross browser testing, valid XHTML/CSS, SEO friendly markup, and accessible code. Oh…and I also really like their tagline: “Fresh testy XHTML”
Important Details
- Offered Price: $349 for 1 XHTML/CSS Page
- Delivery Time: 1 Business Day
- Offered Coding Types: XHTML/CSS, WordPress, Shopify, Light CMS, TextPattern
Delivery Time Rating: 4.5/5
Value For Money Rating: 4.5/5
Customer Support Rating: 4.5/5
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I would add http://www.xhtmlweaver.com as well because they have done great work for my site DecentBanners.com
They coded my site 100% exactly as it was in the PSD file which I provided to them.
Hi,
These markup services providers are hand picked based on some factors. We also asked many of our fellow bloggers and website owners to review and rate them for their commitment, quality of work and efficiency. Also few of them were tried by us on different projects.
Great list, but is there any compilation of xhtml service providers who do the job for less than what the above listed service providers cost charge. I guess there me a lot around but not sure of their promise to deliver the stuff on time and with great quality. If so, just list around and i hope this will be helpful to people who are on budget. Thanks.
Wow! Quite a list… i had very good experience with PSD2HTML and RapidxHTML. Both are very reliable and promising in seance of delivery time and value for money.
Emily
my vote goes to W3-Markup
Well i never used any of the service above but i like to add that the self design of rapidxhtml is quite fresh and very cute. i really like the illustration they used in the top side.
I like to code my design myself… can not believe on anyonce coding. Specially someone, who i didn’t know personally.
Great list. Thanks for compiling it
“… and finally reputation” – I think that the last word – reputation – is very important here. Maybe it’s one of the most important criteria. But reputation is not only good and deserved opinions about a company, it’s also time the company has worked in the market, promotion for years, and other actions for brand development.
But what about “younger” providers? Often their personnel is seasoned and proficient, production is smoothly running, the only thing they don’t have – age and share of customers’ mind. What about to make a list of such providers? Or to express the community’s opinion and give recommendations on their services? In other words, help them (and the psd-to-html services market in whole) to grow in the right direction and be the most mutually acceptable and beneficial?
I have used W3-Markup and they were excellent. The mark-up was pixel perfect, worked perfectly on all the important browsers and was search engine friendly. They also delivered the mark-up early!
I gotta say the best part of designing a website is the “designing” part, there is nothing cooler than exploring the different options, and how changing a simple element can dramatically effect the overall look and feel of the site.
However, the most frustrating part is the coding of the site, with all the things that can go wrong its a wonder why any of us do this for a living.
And as a business owner I love the idea of being able to pass along a task for someone else to do so I can focus on getting the next project in the studio instead of figuring out why a form element is not aligning is internet explorer on a PC!
However, I once tried the http://www.psd2html.com/ service, to only be told by an automated response to the project request form that they where too busy and not taking any orders.
Hence if you want something done right do it yourself.
Although I can’t help but to think how great it would be to be able to pass this part off.
I will possibly try again if the workload becomes more than I can handle
Cheap is as cheap does. If you don’t want customer service, accuracy, a business building relationship or human contact, then these second rate services are for you – just like offshore, outsourcing.
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$409 for 1 XHTML/CSS Page is not so high. I like to subscribe it.
These type of software are really useful to web designers. Thank you.
Great list, thanks for sharing!
My vote goes to : Rapid xhtm, i liked their website so much. i also have an experience with Slice2u.com they’re cheapest and at the same time they have a great customer support..
Waiting to expand this list so we can compare it all.
thanks for the list..
Thanks for the resources… Really useful..
very good! thanks
thanks you bro!
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