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Best of PSD to HTML Services Articles – HTMLcut Digest

September 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

This 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?

Last 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

This 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 →

Beyond PSD to HTML Conversion – Simple SEO for Web Designers

Design and PSD to HTML conversion are important but only the first phase in the website life-cycle. So no wonder that our customers and friends designers ask us to help or consult them not only on PSD to HTML slicing but also on SEO of their blogs or business websites. Our observations testify that about 90% of the revealed problems are the same.

Below we have collected some typical SEO bottlenecks of the websites developed by web designers for themselves, as well as explanations how to avoid them in the light of SEO trends 2011. Continue reading →

PSD to HTML Tutorials – What Is Wrong With Them?

PSD to HTML conversion companies receive a lot of resumes from job applicants. But only some of them have good chances to be hired. One of the important reasons to be rejected is a candidate’s insufficient education level and practical experience.

The applicants can be divided into two main categories:

Self-educated persons – With knowledge and skills derived from the beginners’ (short-term) courses, web design and PSD to HTML tutorials, forums, etc. and
Those who are professionally educated and trained in the field of design and/or programming – E.g., courses in the colleges / universities + several years of work in web companies + continuous self-education.

In this article we have gathered recommendations on how to improve your chances to be hired by the PSD to HTML companies if you refer yourself to the first category. Continue reading →

77 Web Development Articles Retweeted at @htmlcut

This is a new portion of web design and development articles, blog posts and resources recently retweeted at @htmlcut. 4 “deaths” and 1 “evil” in the section “Opinions”, 5 extremely valuable articles in “Web Copyright and Legal Issues” (including a real example of dealing with a content theft), a whole bunch of useful examples of HTML5, CSS3 and JS code and many other interesting things – you see, today’s roundup is very informative :).

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Before Converting PSD to WordPress or Joomla – Is Your Choice of CMS Right?

PSD to WordPress Joomla Converting PSD to WordPress or PSD to Joomla! is one of the mainstreams in the design-to-HTML/CSS slicing market now. But sometimes customers of these services don’t exactly understand which of the content management systems (CMS) is the most appropriate for their website and business goals.

There is a great variety of CMSs on the Web now, though some of them have already gained general acceptance. WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, Magento are definitely among the leaders today, at least amid the free open-source CMSs. Each of them has its own specialty and suits some particular objectives. Knowing that difference as well as their strengths and weaknesses can be very helpful when choosing a CMS for your own website. Continue reading →

What Is the Best PSD to HTML Conversion Tool? The 6 Standpoints

“What is the best PSD to HTML conversion tool?” is an everyday question on many web design and development forums. Often it goes shoulder to shoulder with another eternal chicken-and-egg question: “What is better – PSD to HTML software / automated conversion or hand coding?”

Are there any new answers and points of view out there? Let’s try to dig up some of them. Continue reading →

59 Web Design Resources Tweeted at @htmlcut

This is a collection of some of web design and development related articles, blog posts and resources recently tweeted at @htmlcut. The section “Opinions on Web Design and Designers” is really controversial this time. Hope you’ll find this interesting.

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