photoshop to css
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This is how I usually build my sites- I do my drafts to final artwork (and splicing and image optimizing) using photoshop and then I fireup my dreamweaver and hand code my HTML and CSS. I am not a hardcore CSS coder so I tend to code my CSS within DIVs bcoz I find it easier that way. You can google "convert photoshop to css" and you will find numerous service providers but my advice for you is try it my way - CSS within DIVs. It may be a little amateurish but it works.
The reason you're not getting many responses is because smart marketers don't waste their time hand coding shit. They have software to do all that, or outsource it that kind of monkey work.
As far as I know it's not really possible to go from an image to a fully semantic, dynamic site. The two are almost opposites and don't go together. You can't expect to change a static image into a scalabe site. It just can't work the way you'd want to. There's too many decisions that need to happen in between that software just can't solve.
If you want standards/compliance design primarily w/ css and experience. If you want ps > export throw standards out the window.
My thoughts on it anyway.
If you want standards/compliance design primarily w/ css and experience. If you want ps > export throw standards out the window.
My thoughts on it anyway.
I used htmlblender.com and got great, table-less, xhtml results in two days for a reasonable price.
What makes you think that, image mockups are turned into actual layouts all the time. Googling "psd to html" returns 15.7 million results, so it's a helluva lot more common than you think, if you doubt it send an image mock up to the service I referred to above.
For those interested in learning how to do it themselves, I just wrote a tutorial showing how..
How to Make a Website | A Modern Guide
It shows you how to design this:
ParadiseVodka in PS, make the individual images, flash, html and css.
How to Make a Website | A Modern Guide
It shows you how to design this:
ParadiseVodka in PS, make the individual images, flash, html and css.
This is way oversaid, but learn to do it yourself. I don't care if the "real marketers" don't have time to do it. It honestly takes like 30-60 min once you are good which is less time than it would take to try and find/contact someone who would do it for you. Plus you know the ins and outs and so it's easier to make changes in the future. Plus it's FREE, plus... i'll stop now. Otherwise, Dreamweaver is decent from my experience. Still shitty compared to hand coding though. Unless you know how to go back in and fix the shit that DW messes up.
Anything that takes me an hour to do (especially if I don't want to do it or am not proficient at it) I don't consider free.
I agree, typical wordpress layouts or landing pages dont take much time, most of the time affiliates just build quick easy converting sites. I will do it my self and save the money.
Sometimes it takes more than an hour to get whoever to do it the way you want it. So you end up paying 20 bucks to end up tweaking it yourself when they are done anyway.
Actually I rarely pay only 20 bucks for a landing page -- it's more like 80 to 200 for someone to design and then code.
i lol'd
good stuff...what up ohiooo lol.
thanks, checkin it out right now. This isnt for landing page shit either its for other stuff so thanks a lot for the responses
Pretty sure you're talking about sitegrinder - SiteGrinder - The Big Idea
I've never used it either, do everything myself....but read something awhile back that said it was pretty decent.