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• 1 Dan McCray May 26, 2008 at 11:25 pm

  We also slice and dice to produce beautiful xhtml code.

• 2 Brant May 27, 2008 at 1:11 am

  Nice work with this blog post. I will keep this page handy just incase I want to outsource it! Thanks.

• 3 Tom - StandOutBlogger.com May 27, 2008 at 3:03 am

  very comprehensive list, but I usually just hit eh digitalpoint forum and I can get valid xhtml a heap cheaper than any of those prices.

• 4 Web Developer May 27, 2008 at 3:58 am

  i used css rockstars before and i will say they are the best

• 5 Lachy G May 27, 2008 at 4:13 am

  Hey,

  I would appreciate it if you could add my site: http://psdchopstick.com

  PSDChopstick
  Turnaround - 2 day
  Starting price - $129
  Additional pages - $60

• 6 Vibgyor Techsolutions Pvt. Ltd. May 27, 2008 at 5:37 am

  We are working on design and development for past 6 years and have been providing html slicing jobs for USD 80 where turnaround time is 8 hrs.

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• 8 Indranil May 27, 2008 at 9:14 am

  These lists are available on various websites. But well done compiling them.

  What is really needed, though, are more blog posts reviewing the services, or whichever the people have used.

  Thanks for adding SliceIt.

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• 11 PSDaHTML.com May 27, 2008 at 11:14 am

  Hi, for the spanish market (but soon it will be also in english!) we have developed PSDaHTML.com, I will really apreciate if you add our web to your list.

  PSDaHTML.com
  Turnaround: 4 days - 2 days
  Starting price: $110 (70 €) - $275 (175 €)
  Additional pages: $70 (45 €) - $135 (85 €)
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• 12 Dennison Uy May 27, 2008 at 12:38 pm

  Is that really 40 of them? Man that sure is a lot. Has anyone wondered who started this “trend”?

• 13 Richard Ramos May 27, 2008 at 12:59 pm

  Hi

  I would appreciate it if you could add my site: http://www.smartslicer.com

  Smartslicer.com
  Turnaround - 2 days
  Starting price - $100
  Additional pages: depends on # of pages and turnaround time

  Regards!

• 14 Michael May 27, 2008 at 1:32 pm

  nice pages in the list, ad a look at them great ^^

• 15 Danielle May 27, 2008 at 2:13 pm

  Sorry I am not a fan of these sites they take away jobs from hard working coders and it cheapens the value of the product. No wonder some front-end designers are now pimping themselves out for 12.50 per hour.

• 16 Peter Cooper May 27, 2008 at 2:42 pm

  Great list, but I’d be more interested to know how good they are and how many people recommend them (independently). If people want to post here with the thumbs up for any particular vendors, it might help people make choices.

• 17 Pixmasta May 27, 2008 at 4:32 pm

  We also convert .psd to xhtml:

  http://www.pixmasta.com/en/

  The website is also available in French. You only pay if you are satisfied with the result.

  Turnaround - 2 Days
  Starting price - $249
  Additional pages - $129

• 18 Nanostuff May 27, 2008 at 4:35 pm

  Danielle,

  You seem to not understand the basic principles of economics. These sites are a result of hard working coders, and if they can do it for cheaper than the next hard working coder, that’s a market victory.

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• 20 Misty Beier May 27, 2008 at 7:00 pm

  I agree with Danielle on that “it cheapens the value of the product.” These sites are great as a backup plan, but really, who can sit for 8 hours straight coding a valid XHTML web page? What about testing in different browsers? (I noticed some mentioned this.) These sites give the average Joe (or a new client) the idea that building a web site takes no time. Web Design shouldn’t be cheap, not if you put a lot of meaning and value into it. The finished product shouldn’t be discarded as something that’s just done and the next one is waiting in the assembly line. Sorry to rant, but this is how I feel about these sites.

• 21 Vandelay Design May 27, 2008 at 7:26 pm

  Dennison,
  Yes, I have wondered who started this trend and when. It seems like they have been popping up everywhere within the past 6 months to a year. Maybe they were around before, but there are certainly more now.

  Danielle,
  Thanks for sharing your opinion. I don’t think this issue is isolated to design and coding. Many other industries face the same issues.

  Misty,
  I’d say most of these services mention testing in various browsers if you look through the details of their service. Yes, I do agree that there are some negative effects on the expectations of clients, but I think that also requires some educating of the client. Almost none of these services really design anything, they just convert a design into code. If you explain that to clients they shouldn’t expect you to do the design and the coding in that amount of time or for that money. That being said, I do wonder how the coding can get done so quickly in some cases.

• 22 Biodun May 27, 2008 at 7:31 pm

  great compliation, don’t know most of this sites, hope we get people that will actually recommend the great ones to us.

  Thanks

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• 24 Indranil May 27, 2008 at 10:50 pm

  @Misty: Almost none of these services claim that building a website is a cheap affair. We totally acknowledge the fact that designing a website from the ground up, a good website at that is not going to come cheap.
  As for developing a site, you will notice that none of the services do custom programming or custom CMS’, because if we get asked for a quote for that, we will ask for prices more suited to them.

  Most of the prices here are for basic XHTML/CSS pages, which doesn’t take a hard working coder much time to do.

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• 27 Ray Stone May 28, 2008 at 5:12 am

  @ Misty and Danielle

  I run Finely Sliced, listed above. This is a freelance operation for me. Like any other web shop, I provide a quote for each project, based on the work involved, and the costs I need to meet in running the service.

  By no means could I even consider supporting myself in the current Western Australian economy on a ‘pimped out’ 12.50 an hour.

• 28 Jeremy Nicoll May 28, 2008 at 9:44 pm

  Agreed. These prices are pretty reasonable for PSD to HTML conversion. I generally charge my clients around $200 for this service.

• 29 Katherine May 29, 2008 at 10:56 am

  I’ve used PSD2HTML once and I was happy with the result. It wasn’t 8-hour turnaround, but they let me know in plenty of time that it was going to be a few hours late. I didn’t care about the turnaround, as it happened — a few days even would have been fine with me. I just wanted nice clean cross-browser markup. They did a nice job, and it wasn’t a particularly easy design.

• 30 Meet Women May 29, 2008 at 12:53 pm

  great information, thx a million

• 31 Diane May 29, 2008 at 9:05 pm

  I’ve used a couple of these companies. Probably the best in terms of markup abilities is PSD2HTML. The worst would be HTMLBlender. Both had turnaround times much longer than they state on their site, but when I did a validity check, psd2html came back with only 2 errors on a complex site, while HTMLBlender had too many to count for a fairly simple one. Not to mention, they didn’t even cross-browser check anything. Waste of time and money.

  I would say psd2html, cssrockstars, and xhtmlgenius are worth trying first.

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• 33 Rob May 30, 2008 at 3:55 am

  Used XHTMLizers a few times and I’m very happy with their code

• 34 Chris May 30, 2008 at 11:00 am

  Hmmm. I have had the opposite experience as Diane says. I used psd2html and cssrckstars and both projects had many errors and I had trouble getting things fixed. I later used htmlblender and they did good for us. All code tested good at the validation tool from w3c, so I have kept on using them. I have not used the xhtmlgenius yet. I am now looking for a source of good designers, any ideas?

• 35 Bernhard May 30, 2008 at 5:24 pm

  Just took a peep at some of the sites listed above. They all employ the same lame “ImageReady slices fed to Dreamweaver” sorta hogwash.

  Example: ul lists with links that all look and behave the same, but each and every list item and link is declared as its own class in the stylesheet. That kind of bloated CSS is a dead giveaway that Dreamweaver was in the workflow somewhere.

  Some of the sites validate OK, but the W3C validators can by their very nature only check vocabulary and grammar. Hence the (X)HTML validator does not check semantics and the CSS validator does not check whether a stylesheet is a bandwidth hog which could be 300 lines shorter if somebody who knew the rules of the cascade removed the bloat.

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• 40 Jeremy Tuber Jun 6, 2008 at 7:32 pm

  This is a terrific post, and some of the comments were outstanding. I’ve been talking about this trend to graphic designers for a year or so now. Designers are upset that online stock libraries are “cheapening” the industry and newbies are “pimping themselves out” which causes the whole industry to go down.

  Is there some truth to this? Yes, there is.
  But many of these designers feel the solution is to police o chastise people for not charging enough. My first question is, “Who decides how much is too much or too little”? See my point…

  Whether it’s coding or design - money is out there, you just need to change, adapt and overcome what’s happening in the market. Complaining about it won’t solve anything.

  jeremy
  mentor, resource and educator to creative freelancers everywhere
  http://www.beingastarvingartistsucks.typepad.com

• 41 af Jun 7, 2008 at 10:35 pm

  If anyone is thinking of using CSS Rockstars, you may want to hear my story first. I wanted them to make a CMS template (Prestashop) for me from my design. At first they were very good. Replied to my emails promptly etc. Anyway, they got my design on a Monday. their site says 3-4 days turnaround. so, i email on friday to get an update. i didn’t hear anything until the following monday and i know that they have email support on weekends. no big deal. so then i’m told my project was supposed to finished that day but they had some delays and it would be finished on that thursday. ok, still no big deal, i wasn’t in a big hurry. thurs comes and goes. so i email again on friday. on sunday with no explanation whatsoever they refunded my money. after a few emails asking for an explanation i still got no response. so, they wasted my time for 2.5 weeks and never gave me an explanation. at least i got my money back and that’s the best thing i can say about them.

• 42 Mike Jun 10, 2008 at 6:08 am

  I’ve had a very solid experience with both CSS Rockstars and PSD2HTML. I’ve done multiple projects with both and always been happy. I send most of my work to Rockstars now though because the code is easier to read plus they are in the us.

• 43 Gumbah Jun 11, 2008 at 8:49 am

  Excellent list!

  Here’s another one: http://www.psdnaarhtml.nl. PSDnaarHTML.nl is focussing on the Dutch market.

  Regards,

  G

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• 45 fgiust Jun 11, 2008 at 4:34 pm

  A review of a service not listed here: XHTLIT (www.xhtmlit.com).

  We used it for a project and we had a very *bad* experience. They declared a 8-hours delivery time and we requested all the “addons” the offered such as opera/safari compatibility, xhtml strict instead of transitional, a javascript menu (what they call “advanced package”).

  Only after 5 days we received a first draft of the code but it was totally not satisfying. No valid code (they did it in xhtml transitional instead of strict and didn’t even validate), absolutely unacceptable graphic results also on firefox or ie (spacing, alignment totally different from the psd) not to mention opera or safari, no semantic coding at all, most of the page sliced as a single big background image!

  After replying that the code was totally unacceptable for us we got a very rude reply, saying something like “quality is not an absolute concept, this is ok for us”. At the end they said they were able to fix something and we just asked to know the delivery time. A week and a few more mails later and still no answers. A few more days and we tried to ask for a reimbursement, but still no way to get an answer from them, they are just ignoring any request from us.

  this is just our single experience, but I suggest to stay away from them…

• 46 cestmoi Jun 11, 2008 at 7:28 pm

  Experience as of June 7, 2008 with CSSRockStars.com

  I’d avoid CSSRockStars.com as they delayed us for 2 weeks after promising to deliver in a few days and then ended up refunding the deposit without any explanations. IMHO, I’d rather deal with a company who is reliable and show some professional courtesy even if they charge a bit more. Yes, their code is excellent but if they disappear after promises, what is the good in excellent code that might have been?

  CSSRockStars.com = AVOID

• 47 Charm HTML Jun 13, 2008 at 12:58 pm

  Charm HTML is now opening to accept new projects.

  We are eager to show off our skills as well as will to prevail so just fire at us whatever you need to be done.

  Thanks for the article Vandelay!

• 48 Craig Jun 17, 2008 at 3:14 am

  I also used htmlBlender and had a terrible experience. They have live chat and their people on that chat are so unprofessional and unknowledgeable. They will say anything to get your business, but unless it is a really easy job, they will foul it up every time. And don’t believe their 100% guarantee. It’s a load of bullocks as they refused after turning over a project that didn’t work. They said they weren’t responsible if the cms theme didn’t work as they only create the theme and don’t test it. And they never returned my request for the final markup, even after they had 100% of the money. Seriously - stay away. I’ll give a couple of other sites listed here a try. Or I’ll just hire in-house so I know it’ll get done right.

• 49 M Slater Jun 17, 2008 at 12:27 pm

  HTMLBlender is truly horrible. I had several projects and all had problems. Every one was late and they all had poor cross browser coding. They were rude, late and completely unprofessional. I really wanted it to work out as I thought it was a great opportunity for a partnership for my business and I really feel like I gave it every chance but they were totally unapologetic about poor work and late delivery even when they garunteed a delivery date. AVOID

• 50 Dario Brozzi Jun 19, 2008 at 7:36 pm

  Cool list, please, add my website on the next review:

  http://www.dariobrozzi.com/mockups/en

  Thanks,
  Dario

• 51 Karolis Jun 21, 2008 at 2:18 am

  Thank you for adding KWebSoft to this list. I am the owner and do most of the slicings myself. Just wanted to let people know that we don’t do this “addons for additional price” thing, you get everything with a static price - valid xhtml strict, testing in various browsers etc.

  The turnaround is two days, that’s basically the minimum safest turnaround to declare as you cannot possibly expect to slice everything under 8 hours as some of our competitors state.

• 52 JP Jun 22, 2008 at 12:31 pm

  I could really use a service that will turn brain waves, ideas, fleeting thoughts, and brilliant drunken inspiration into PSDs.

• 53 Jeremy Tuber Jun 30, 2008 at 3:41 pm

  Review on cssrockstars:
  I gave these guys a shot recently. They were just a little late on the delivery (but they did notify me ahead of time they were running late), but other than that I thought these guys were friendly, competitively priced and a good overall value - I’ll use them again. I still would like phone support, but it doesn’t seem like anyone’s providing it…and these guys responded quickly over email.

• 54 Prasanth Jul 3, 2008 at 5:39 am

  Hello,
  We are launching a new service - Slice and Stitch, which is a PSD to XHTML conversion tool. It would be great of you could add the service to the list.

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• 57 Gary C. Jul 9, 2008 at 12:05 pm

  I found htmlBlender to be very professional and pleasant to deal with. They also offered me a great discount on my inside pages. Great to work with!

• 58 James Jul 10, 2008 at 12:09 am

  i agree. htmlBlender.com was by far the most affordable and they have live chat support. PSD2HTML and CSSRockStars cranked out some great code also. i had no issues at all with these sites.

• 59 Adam Jul 10, 2008 at 1:35 pm

  htmlblender is, by far, the worst i’ve ever used. 8 hours, my butt. Try three weeks, crappy code, and a lot of broken promises. They did, however, refund me the entire 300 dollars for all of my trouble, (but that was after I threatened to smear their name on every blog I could find). Funny, this is the first one I have been on; but, since you were doing a full story on these services, I felt obligated to tell all of you. STAY AWAY FROM THESE IDIOTS!

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• 61 Consigliere Jul 16, 2008 at 12:42 pm

  Family is taking over PSD to HTML/CSS business.
  http://www.cssmafia.com

• 62 C Jul 17, 2008 at 12:51 pm

  I would say html blender is the worst. We originally worked with XHTMLIZED which has amazing service but they get pretty pricey. But if you want great service, you have to pay for it. So for a smaller project, we decided to choose html blender because the price was good and there was a money back guarantee. They were absolutely horrible to work with. THey never responded to emails, never gave our work until I had to hound them on the live chat asking where our work was. Then they missed an item they charged us extra for and finally delivered after two days and we said it was too late by them and asked for our money back. They wouldn’t give it to us and until we demanded a chargeback did they refund it. Also the rep we had was Jonathan Klein who often posed as “Darren” who would always tell us Jonathan was out to lunch and would be back shortly. He never responded. They were just absolutely a horror to work with. Please avoid.

• 63 Roger Jul 18, 2008 at 6:15 pm

  Great and informative post! I hire developers and slicers all the time. I usually leave the slicing to the developer as part of the project but occasionally I do hire slicing services. I have used different businesses I’ve found on e-lance and have a good on going relationship with some of those developers.

  I think PSD2HTML is the best I have used but you should be careful about requesting extras or adjustments that may have not been apparent when you created your PSD. PSD2HTML extras charges are very high. Otherwise I’ve found the work of the highest quality.

  If anyone can recommend a reasonably priced PSD to Drupal Theme service please let me know.

• 64 coder Jul 26, 2008 at 7:44 pm

  I just started a post regarding different slicing vendors. It seems a lot of people are still looking for feedbacks and are unable to make a decision on which vendor to choose.

• 65 Ann Jul 29, 2008 at 3:49 pm

  Hello,

  We have launched a xhtml/css coding service for busy designers and developers. Try us and you will not be disappointed.

  http://www.xhtmlmydesign.com

  Thanks,
  Ann.

• 66 Rox Jul 31, 2008 at 5:50 pm

  I have had only one experience with CssRockStars and CssRockStars suck. They were late in delivering a template that does not work.

  I asked them to fix it and all I get is a terse email saying pay up, they delivered even though they didn’t.

  I would love them to finish it but so far doesn’t look good.

• 67 adrian c calark Aug 7, 2008 at 5:20 am

  One of the Best designed and best price in PSD to HTML Slicing

  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

• 68 Maik Aug 7, 2008 at 8:52 am

  Just stumbled over sliced4web.
  They start at amazing 112$ / page.

• 69 Gustav Ceratt Aug 10, 2008 at 12:59 pm

  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

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• 71 Jason Dean Aug 12, 2008 at 7:25 pm

  Hello,
  You might want to include this psd to html service to the list as well.

  ConvertPsd2Html.com
  Turnaround - 2 days
  Starting price - $125
  Additional pages - 50% discount

  A team of highly skilled professionals guarantees the best results.

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