XHTML CSS Tips, Tricks and Techniques

1. 

   Richard Ellender (July.27.2008):
   

   http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-reply.cfm?r=16160585

2. 

   Ann (July.29.2008):
   

   Hi,

   Can you please review and add my site to your list ?

   url - http://xhtmlmydesign.com

   Thanks,
   Ann

3. 

   Daniel (August.3.2008):
   

   Just to say that we worked with cssjob.com for our outsourcing needs and extended XHTML coding and we are still in business with these guys especially Nick who is our go to guy when we need xhtml pages and when we need a lot of them. Best of all, you can always get a custom price. Sometimes we get pages for less than $40 which is very cheap.

   This is one awesome list of reviews, I will probably contact some of the providers to check custom quotes but for now I can recommend you cssjob

   Best Regards
   Daniel

4. 

   coder (August.4.2008):
   

   Thanks for the feedback Daniel. With cssjob though, the one major turn off would be their design which looks like a rip of cssbeauty. Code could be better too.

   Try checking out YummyCSS’ Promo they’re offering their services half off, seen it advertised in one of the showcase sites.

5. 

   Daniel (August.4.2008):
   

   Regards Coder,

   Thanks for your input regarding YummyCSS but they have turnaround time from 1 day to 3 days, and only affordable price is on promotion, regular price for 1 day is $350 which is way to high. We usually (in 90% of cases) we get our pages sliced in less than 10 hours from cssjob and thats why we love them. One we had a project that needed to pages coded on Sunday, it was some mess on designer side, so we needed code sliced for 3 pages on Sunday and we just contacted cssjob on msn and it was done in around 12 hours.
   Yea I see that site header looks similar to the cssbeaty but then again only header colors but then gain we are not hiring them for unique design jobs we hire them for programming and xhtml

   btw promo on Yummy looks good I man try it so we will see how good they are and will they keep that price, otherwise it is way to expensive.

   Best Regards
   Daniel

6. 

   Daniel (August.4.2008):
   

   LOL that was one bad witting on my side
   Thats what happens when you write fast and do not check what you wrote

7. 

   K (August.5.2008):
   

   I’m like you, I also prefer long term clients to short term, save me time and money for communication and advertisement.

   There are a few things you overlooked here ( and Yummy doesn’t have the best code/price ) but this is still the most throughout list I’ve seen so far.

   Should have included the “CSS on / Image off” test (sites use negative text-indent for image replacement will fail, hard), and a few deeper tests that I think perhaps none of these services can pass. But that would kind of defeat the purpose of evaluating them anyway.

   btw I’m one of those old school developers, still love to code for legacy browsers like IE 5.0, 5.5, and maybe a little obsessed with code optimization…

8. 

   Adrian Clark (August.8.2008):
   

   Another very realiable PSD to XHTML service:

   You send a design in any of common formats (PSD, PNG, JPG, GIF etc) 
and you receive a high-quality XHTML-CSS page.

   http://www.mydesign2html.co.uk

9. 

   Indranil (August.9.2008):
   

   LOL! Seems like my site did the worst of the lot!
   Anyway, glad to see someone finally checking this. And thanks for giving me enough motivation to do something about it
   I now hope you do update it, hehe

10. 

    Gustav Ceratt (August.10.2008):
    

    Hi,

    Probably the most reliable service

    Your Design to HTML in 24 hours

    You send a design in any of common formats (PSD, PNG, JPG, GIF etc) 
and you receive a high-quality XHTML-CSS page.

    Get custom hand-coded professional HTML / XHTML in 24 hours.
    The Best Price in the market
    PSD, JPG, PNG formats

    http://www.mypsdtohtml.com

11. 

    Jicker (August.10.2008):
    

    A good list with the best xhtml slicers you can find on our site - http://htmlslicers.info

12. 

    coder (August.10.2008):
    

    Indranil, thanks for being a sport about it. I hope everyone else would react the same way you did. I’d be sure to update the list soon once I have the time.

    Adrian Clark and Gustav Ceratt, do you own these two companies? What’s your real name? You’re using the same IP and yet you have two different names. I’m guessing you own both these slicing services?

    Jicker, I can’t believe xhtmlized was the worst. How were you able to derive the scores? Did you even consider the bad feedbacks for instantcoding? Xhtmlized’s code quality is far better than instantcoding.

13. 

    K (August.11.2008):
    

    Yep, I’d like to know that too. Xhtmlized is one of the two oldest firms in the field.

    “PSD Chopstick - Rating [ 7/10 ]”

    Hmm… from what I know this service is running by a 14 year-old, that could be an explanation for the bad feedback(s) on mostsliced… or maybe not.

14. 

    Adrian Clark (August.18.2008):
    

    Hi Coder,

    Two different person working in my company post this messages that’s why, one was Gustav. And we decide to use a more SEO friendly domain name that’s why now is mypsdtohtml.

    Hope you give a try in our services!

15. 

    psd to html (August.19.2008):
    

    Feel free to add our service to the list as well:

    http://convertpsd2html.com
    price: $125
    turnaround: 2 days
    subpages: 50% discount

    Thank you

16. 

    ilker yoldas (September.7.2008):
    

    Due to my work load I will not be able to code the sites I design any more. It will also allow me to do what I do best, that is graphic design. This list sure came in handy and I’m going to give XHTMLmaster a shot. Will provide feedback when the work is over.

    I was wondering if you are going to update this list with the new ones people left to comment and perhaps the following as well:

    http://www.dariobrozzi.com/mockups/en
    http://www.psdcutout.com/
    http://www.sliceandstitch.com/
    http://www.sliced4web.net/
    http://www.cssslicers.com/
    http://www.markup4u.com/
    http://www.kwebsoft.com/
    http://www.pixelcrayons.com/xhtml-conversion.html
    http://webrefill.com/psdtohtml.php
    http://www.sfcreativegroup.com/services/outsourcing
    http://www.turbohtml.nl/
    http://psd2cssonline.com/
    http://www.sterling-code.com/
    http://psdchopstick.com/
    http://www.psdahtml.com/
    http://www.pixmasta.com/en/
    http://www.psdnaarhtml.nl/
    http://www.cssslicers.com/
    http://www.lemberg.co.uk/xhtml_css_markup/?gclid=CLjX9fyQmJMCFQiNHgod0C0lYg

    Would be great if you could add another column for price of additional pages. I’ve bookmarked this page and if I find that it’s updated, I will promote it around the web like crazy! =)

17. 

    ilker yoldas (September.10.2008):
    

    We gave xHTMLmaster a shot and with our first project results in, I have to say — we are absolutely amazed! Excellent work with an excellent turnaround time.. not to mention the excellent price!

    Will work with them again. A+++++

    =)

18. 

    coder (September.12.2008):
    

    @ilker yoldas
    I’ll definitely update this page soon. Thanks for providing a list of the new ones.

19. 

    Alex (September.17.2008):
    

    Check slicing2html.com !

20. 

    chinaman (September.18.2008):
    

    Hi
    It’s better to put source link

21. 

    Alok Jain (September.27.2008):
    

    Hi

    Thanks for spending the time, and pointing out the things missing in the sites.

    We will add the missing functionality to our site within a day or two (as soon as we get some free time).

    Thanks,
    Design With CSS Team

22. 

    jrklein (October.2.2008):
    

    Thanks to coder for your work compiling info for all of these vendors! Very helpful.

    After reviewing your site and several others, we tried XHTMLizers.com last week and they were great. Submitted the job with several requirements and optional requests on 08/24 11pm CST. One of their staff responded asking for clarifications on 08/25 6am CST. We emailed back and forth 3-4 times and they began work sometime after 08/25 10am CST. They sent the chopped/sliced XHTML/CSS/JS code on 08/26 5pm CST. In my case, that was 30 hours before their 72 hour deadline! Nice. The early delivery was probably a result of fairly simple layouts and our ability to provide thorough documentation of what we were expecting when I submitted the project.

    Everything looked great and validated fine for me (XHTML 1.0 Strict, CSS 2.1) and no changes were required. Very impressed! Will send jobs to them again!

23. 

    Markup Service (October.2.2008):
    

    Markup Service provides hand-coded conversion of designs into high quality, W3C valid, tableless XHTML/CSS.

    The prices start at $139.
    Delivery time – less than 8 hours per page.
    Each secondary page is discounted by 50%.

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