Decaflon

They're everywhere. :) A lot of designers/developers will do stuff like that (such as me), or there are several sites where this is all the people do. Snook has a nice list of some of these places.

What exactly are you trying to accomplish?

One of our advertisers offers just this service, PSD2HTML and they're pretty cheap. I'm only throwing them out because of my familiarity with them, not because I've used them before, so please don't take it as an automatic endorsement :)

Hey timeisenhauer,

I am perfectly capable of doing what you suggest...as I have been handling that type of role for the last 4-5 years.

Feel free to fire me an email at golfgod38[at]yahoo[dot]com if you want to chat.

Thanks,
Bryan

What exactly are you trying to accomplish?

I have a number of webpage designs (in photoshop) that I need coded into pure CSS / XHTML - no tables and no inline styles.

There are about 10 pages we have ready to code and we will have another 10-15 in the coming month.

Thanks.

bty - thanks everyone for your replies. PSD2HTML is an excellent company, however I am looking for alternatives - they are a little expensive for us right now. Also, we may be looking to bring someone on full time to do this type of job.

Thanks again!

Tim

I don't recommend any of those larger "chop shops". My job had outsourced a couple of templates a while back to xhtmlit and it was TERRIBLE. Inline styles, terrible css (divitis on overload!) and they apparently know NOTHING about CSS short hand so they for EACH class they defined each font family/size/style/etc seperately. Crazy.

You'd be better off finding a freelancer who can do it. Although I don't know if you are going to get it any cheaper than you see at psd2xhtml, that's about the going rate. Especially if it is a complex design.

Also, as a side note, I find it hilarious that they charge extra to make sure it's cross browser for safari and opera.... if it's coded right chances are it will display completely cross browser with no issues anyway...

In my professional opinion as a web developer you're going to be caught in catch-22 land for quite some time.

Quality = Price

My hourly rate is quite high because I'm good at what I do and work for one of the UK's biggest marketing agencies. To get good quality work you need to pay for it.

Places that turn PSD's into XHTML will give results that correlate to their price. Pay a lot and it'll be good, pay very little and it'll be poor. If they're too expensive for you then you might be in a spot of bother.

I personally charge like £25-30 per hour for work like this and a lot of my collegues charge similar amounts or more. Like I said, Quality = Price.

I wouldn't personally recommend big chop chops either, before my time, the company I work for right now outsourced a template to XHTMLized, and the outcome was pretty bad.

In counterpoint to Seopher's comment, though I do agree with the main idea of what he said: to get quality, you typically have to pay for it.

The counter point though is what Seopher has ignored, it's not a catch-22 because:

Price ≠ Quality

Tim,

I would recommend freelancers to do the job as it will allow for better communications and typically freelancers will do a better job.

I work for a web design and development company and handle all the design and conversion from PSD to XHTML/CSS. I greatly enjoy user interface design, and the XHTML/CSS side of things, and am looking to add some freelance jobs. If you want to talk about any of it just e-mail me: codie-mullins[at]utulsa[dot]edu and I'll see if I can give you more help in finding the right person for the job.

Sorry for driving this off-topic a little, but regarding this:

Also, as a side note, I find it hilarious that they charge extra to make sure it's cross browser for safari and opera.... if it's coded right chances are it will display completely cross browser with no issues anyway...

There are differences, small but noticeable ones, in the way the browsers interpret certain CSS definitions. Obviously the better you get at CSS, and aware at each browser's own ways of interpreting the stylesheets, the better the site will look even in different browsers.

Regarding the topic at hand, like someone already mentioned, you can find a few of those coders here, with me being one of them.

Learn it yourself; you're just wasting money paying some guy to do it in an hour or two.