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LAUNCH: XHTMLized, transform your designs into CSS XHTML

Posted by Dave Rosen March 9, 2006

Today we officially announce the launch of our 1st web service, XHTMLized, our quick turnaround service where you send in your designs & get them back as valid CSS XHTML.

We feel the pain many designers have trying to make machines dig their designs just as much as humans. Mark-up is a difficult craft. It’s hard enough knowing the latest guidelines – yet alone implementing them.

XHTMLized let designers spend more time determining colors than classes.

Upload your PSD, PNG, AI, etc & get it back as CSS XHTML:
  • Looking mighty fine in all major browsers,
  • Optimized for search engines, &
  • Accessibly ready for everyone to enjoy.

We hope XHTMLized gives you a <br/>.

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  1. Ned Baldessin said about 6 hours later:
    You might want to clarify what you mean by "all major browsers" : does it include IE 5.5 ?
  2. Dave Rosen said about 19 hours later:
    Thanks very much for your feedback Ned! To answer your question, yes we do include IE5.5. However we treat each design individually. We determine target audience and requirements. Therefore we won't compromise standards if it means putting hacks into a design that may not need to cater for a particular browser. This is too keep costs lower for the customer. Generally we test on Gecko-Based Browsers (Camino, Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape 7), KHTML-Based Browsers (OmniWeb 4.5+, Safari) and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5-6). Our process is to (1) design to the standards of XHTML, CSS, DOM, (2) test design with above browsers that implement these standards well, and (3) to tweak the sites so that they work well enough for above 'antique' browsers still in use. XHTMLized has been in development for over a year now. Initial prototypes went into verbose detail about our process. Customers could select target browsers (as well as myriad other customisation options). However such level of depth resulted in information overload. So we went right back to basics & found most people preferred less information. Thanks again for your great feedback. We will look at putting access to 'more detailed' information on the site.
  3. Anton Kovalyov said about 22 hours later:
    Try to click on your logo. I get a 404 error: File not found Change this error message for pages not found in public/404.html But the idea is awesome!
  4. David Rosen said 1 day later:
    Thanks Anton!
  5. Andre said 33 days later:

    “We determine target audience and requirements.”

    No, the customer should do that.

  6. DAVID ROSEN said 33 days later:

    Andre – you’re right!

    It should be ‘We determine THE RIGHT MARKUP YOU NEED based on your target audience and requirements’!

    Thanks!

  7. john said 33 days later:

    What a great idea! Looking forward to possibly using your services in the future.

  8. Matt said 34 days later:

    Great idea, but it looks like you may need to brush up on your code. Things like tags and empty divs just to clear something are bad form for someone that should be an expert.

  9. Bert said 34 days later:

    Wow guys. This is awesome. I’ve checked out all you’re sample sites and they look slick. I code XHTML for a living and this is great work! If I get overloaded I be using you for sure.

  10. chris2 said 36 days later:

    Oh the irony:

    http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffuturetrack5.com%2Farticles%2F2006%2F03%2F09%2Fxhtmlized

  11. Brent McMullan said 53 days later:

    Chris – Plumbers are the ones with leaky pipes :) I’ve worked with these guys on a few projects now and the quality is great.

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