CSS Sage: Photoshop to CSS Conversion Service
November 21st, 2006
As of today, I launched a very modest Web page to tout a new service. I’ll take your Photoshop Web mock-up and convert it to standards compliant XHTML/CSS. You’ll have your completed XHTML page in 7 days.
The terms of the offer may evolve as my feet get wet, but it’s fairly straightforward. If you are a design firm without Web skills and want to offer Web design services, this may be exactly what you’re looking for. I also offer Web hosting services and can maintain Web sites as well.
Check out CSS Sage, the photoshop to CSS conversion service.
Edit 11/27/2006: Soon after I launched this service, I discovered a lowball service provider and adjusted my price to meet theirs. On afterthought and the verbose yet kindly reprimands of a few good friends, I raised my price to a level at which I can make a living.
The market today is full of commodities, and it turns out that you can view a Web site design mock-up to CSS/XHTML service as one. Or, you can choose to hire someone like myself because you value my approach to business, the fact that I never offshore work, and my level of service and dedication to your success. You choose.
Thanks to everyone who regularly reads this blog and especially to those who find time to comment on occasion. This is where I learn in front of the world. Sometimes it’s fun; sometimes it’s just learning.
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2 Comments
1. Web Design Wales | March 19th, 2007 at 7:44 am
Offshoring (or outsourcing, as it is more commonly called here in the UK) is a good thing, and I’ll tell you why: in the last 6 months, over 70% of my clients already had websites which they weren’t happy with. Of that 70%, all but one had used a company/individual which outsources work. Sure, the lowball pricing will attract customers, but the bottom line is that outsourced work, in almost every case, is vastly inferior. And in time, those companies will come looking for a quality web designer with a proven track record, not some faceless company whose workforce probably don’t speak the same language. This isn’t a xenophobic comment; it’s an issue of practicality.
2. Harvey Ramer | March 19th, 2007 at 8:27 am
I agree that offshoring/outsourcing can be good for me as a designer once a client has had a taste of the process. It seems to me that the difficulties communicating cross-culturally regarding aesthetics will ensure a long-term place for domestic design services.
Your point is well taken.