Choose Right Company for PSD to XHTML Conversion Service

In the modern era “PSD to XHTML” conversion services are very attractive and craving a lot of demands. You have designed your site but do not know how to convert your design PSD into a coded layout to make the site live. Many companies provide this service differently. So it is very important to check services of that company that are you are going to hire for converting designs into HTML/XHTML/CSS code. The following guidelines must be considered for psd-to-xhtml conversion service.

W3C Valid XHTML/CSS Markup

Websites have to WWW Consortium standards compliant. It allows Internet users to check HTML documents for conformance to HTML or XHTML standards. It also provides a quick method for web page authors to check their posted pages for mark-up errors.

Cross Browser Compatibility

Cross-browser means websites look good with all versions of all browsers. For March 2009 according to Onestat.com (provider of real-time intelligence web analytics) the global usage share of Internet Explorer - 79.79%, Mozilla Firefox - 15.59%, Apple Safari - 2.65%, Google Chrome - 0.86%, Opera - 0.54%, Netscape - 0.31%. Onestat's statistics is based on a sample of 2 million visitors divided into 20,000 visitors of 100 countries each day.

SEO Semantic Coding

SEO semantic coding improves how easily search engine crawlers can detect the meaning of your web page. When a search engine spider visits your web page to index it, it generally extracts the text from the code so it knows which parts of your web page are readable to humans.

Accessibility Guidelines

Accessibility refers primarily to the technical ability of users to access and move through your site, as well as the ability of the site to serve disabled or impaired users. For SEO purposes, the most important aspects are limiting code errors to a minimum and fixing broken links, making sure that content is accessible and visible in all browsers and without special actions.

You can also consider the following services/attributes from your hiring psd-to-xhtml company.

• Mobile Device Compatibility
• Screen Reader Compatibility
• Dom(Prototype, JQuery, mootools etc) based Effect Implementation
• Table Less Tabular Data Coding
• Various Layout Options like Layout Width, Header/Footer Stretch, Horizontal Alignment, Vertical Alignment etc.
  
• Optimizing Image Quality
• Resizable Fonts
• sIFR (Shaun Inman Flash Replacement) Implementation
• Dynamic Menus and Dynamic Rollovers
  
• Intelligent Human Readable Naming Conventions for HTML Elements
• Proper Commenting for Usability

There are many other attributes for psd-to-html conversion services. Here I only discussed most important services that you should consider when hiring company.

Important Resources

1. XHTML Validator – http://validator.w3.org/
2. CSS Validator – http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/