A constant rise of millions of websites resulted in great demand for PSD to HTML service due to which the PSD to HTML market is becoming increasingly competitive day by day. Converting PSD design to HTML/ XHTML/ CSS markup is the prime foundation to develop a great web portal that can never be neglected. The performance, functionality and accessibility of a website largely depend on the quality of coding done for converting design into HTML/ XHTML/ CSS mark-ups.
In the conversion market, one can find thousand of PSD to HTML service providers offering world-class conversion service claiming to provide hand coded, SEO semantic final codes validated with W3C, multiple browser compatible within minimum turnaround time. Are they actually mean it and stand for their promise? How to measure the coding work of PSD-to-XHTML company? Below is a checklist of several important factors to measure the mark-up work done by PSD to HTML/ XHTML company. Take a look:
W3C Validation – Check the codes whether they are W3C validated or not. Test the mark-ups validation yourself by using w3.org. For CSS validation use jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator and for HTML validation use validator.w3.org.
Multi-Browser Compatibility – One can check his web portal on multiple browser compatibility and operating systems by using different online browser compatibility services out there in online market. Browserlabs (from Adobe), Cross Browser Testing, IE NetRenderer, NetMechanic Browser Photo, Browsershots, BrowserCam etc. are some great cross browser compatibility testing tools.
Separation of content from style – It is pre-requisite that styling of codes should be done in CSS only.
File and image optimization – Check whether (X)HTML, CSS and images are highly optimized for different Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing etc or not. Make sure that images are defined properly with < img > alt attribute.
External CSS and JavaScript – Check for all the CSS and JavaScript whether they are defined externally or not.
The above mentioned checklist of factors will help you in checking the quality of the code written by your PSD to HTML service provider.Consider the above factors to check work done by hire web developer of a web development company hired to code PSD or any other format design into cross browser compatible, W3C validated HTML/ XHTML/ CSS mark-ups.
