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Happy Web Design and PSD to HTML in 2012!

Happy Xmas HTMLcut

Merry Christmas and best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year
from HTMLcut team!

We’d like to thank all of you for your continued partnership and encouragement. It is you who make our jobs a pleasure. At HTMLcut we look forward to the continuation of our business relationships in the coming year and for many years to come.

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Effective Website Design – 160+ Articles of Autumn 2011

Effective Website Design - 160 Articles of Autumn 2011This post continues the roundup “Designing Effective Websites – 80 Articles of Summer 2011″ and presents articles retweeted at @htmlcut this autumn. Autumn 2011 was very rich in great web design articles and inspiration collections, so we have decided to gather as many as possible of them.

As usual, you’ll find a lot of interesting information on web design principles, usability and user experience, content writing, designing e-commerce websites and effective call-to-action, and many other questions. This time there is a great deal of articles on development for mobile devices, responsive web design, as well as on redesign techniques and cross-cultural websites. One more novelty is that we’ve added several controversial articles, in particular, about HTML semantics. Hope you’ll enjoy this roundup. Continue reading

Video Version of the Article About CMSs Is Out

Before PSD to WordPress conversionA video version of the popular HTMLcut article Before Converting PSD to WordPress or Joomla – Is Your Choice of CMS Right? is published on Youtube.

The video is built as a slideshow that is developed on the basis of a stylish new template. It explains the advantages and disadvantages of WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, as well as the peculiarities of design to CMS conversion. Continue reading

9 Tips on Choosing a PSD to HTML Services Provider

9 tips on choosing a PSD to HTML services providerMany web designers use PSD to HTML conversion services now. Still it doesn’t mean all PSD to HTML services providers follow the best business and coding practices. So, how to make sure you choose the right provider? Here are some tips. Continue reading

Cross-Browser PSD to HTML Conversion – How Compatible Should It Be With the Advent of Mobile Web?

Cross-browser PSD to HTML conversionCross-browser compatibility is one of the main promises of the professional PSD to HTML conversion services. But there are 50+ different browsers now (5 are the market leaders, while others suit some particular users’ needs and preferences). Many of them have their own peculiarities in treating HTML and CSS standards and require using special tricks and additional coding to be taken into account. As a result, cross-browser compatibility may lead to the increase of costs and time on PSD to HTML conversion, as well as to the growth of size and complexity of the resulting markup.

Fast adoption of HTML5/CSS3, the mobile Web and such techniques as responsive web design introduce new aspects in evaluation of to what extent cross-browser compatibility should spread in a concrete situation.

In this article we have collected information about browser popularity, their support of the new markup coding standards and mobile devices, and provide a number of recommendations for customers of PSD to HTML services in order to stay within reasonable budget and wisely concentrate their efforts when converting designs into HTML/CSS code. Continue reading

PSD to HTML Conversion Services Company HTMLcut – 3 Years of Success and Steady Growth

3 Years of PSD to HTML Conversion Company HTMLcut
Feasterville, PA, October 18, 2011 — HTMLcut, a professional PSD to HTML conversion company, has celebrated its 3-rd anniversary. During these years the company has helped thousands of web designers and web agencies to slice their designs into cross-browser, W3C valid markups and won recognition as a reliable provider of high quality HTML/CSS coding services. Continue reading

Best of PSD to HTML Services Articles – HTMLcut Digest

Best PSD to HTML services articlesSeptember is a great time to remember the previous months as well as posts written during them. The summer vacations are over, and businesses are planning new achievements. Many of the new business goals are related to the web development or website redesign and include PSD to HTML conversion tasks. Hope this digest of the best articles written by HTMLcut’s staff will be helpful to you. Continue reading

Designing Effective Websites – 80+ Articles of Summer 2011

Designing Effective Websites - 80 Articles of Summer 2011This post presents a collection of articles on how to develop an effective website which were retweeted at @htmlcut this summer. The roundup can be especially useful if you are planning to start a new web development project and need to refresh your knowledge, “shake up” creativity or find new ideas.

In fact, there are a lot of resources about different aspects of effective web design on the Internet. However, the web industry is changing very fast, and new trends appear here almost every day. Some of the articles listed below describe exactly such new tendencies. But even if an article doesn’t provide something absolutely new, it can be still helpful. Really, quite often one and the same thing but given from a little different point of view makes it possible to reveal new and sometimes unexpected facets of a problem. Continue reading

Is Web Design Like Bicycling or Car Driving?

Web Design - Bike or CarLast Friday, at the end of a small corporate party, when all other problems had been discussed, we suddenly began to debate such a weird question as “Is web development similar to bicycling or car driving?” The discussion was sparked by a comparison made in the last paragraph of Simple Website Promotion for Web Designers, as well as tweets about bikes by Veerle Pieters and images like this Vitamin bike. Some of the expressed statements seemed quite interesting, so I’ve gathered them below with literary editing. Continue reading

Simple Website Promotion for Web Designers

Website Promotion for Web DesignersThis is Part 2 of the post “Beyond PSD to HTML Conversion – Simple SEO for Web Designers.” In this part we continue to consider the typical SEO problems of web designers’ sites and give some tips on how to avoid them in the light of SEO trends 2011.

2. Following Famous Designers

The best designers don’t promote their websites, so neither do I.” OK, it may be true. But what is permitted to the famous web design sites is not permitted to young ones. Continue reading