I think the idea is a user

JeevesBond — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:21:27 +0000

I think the idea is a user will create their design using this service, then enter text afterwards. It can work in practice (see the psd2css site's code, for example), but will create something write-only. Write-only code being code which, when written once, can never be read again by anyone.

I agree with the general sentiment here: what that site chucks out is rubbish. It might be alright for amateurs, but I hope no professionals try using it.

So, what they're doing is

Megan — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:28:00 +0000

So, what they're doing is taking the layers, making them into separate images, and creating absolutely positioned divs with them. Not really a proper CSS layout in any way.

Somewhat interesting experiment but in no way a substitute for human-written code.

Here is the code that my

cmoyer — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:38:17 +0000

Here is the code that my simple image came out to be, I added a few more layers to test the tool. I don't think you could do a fluid layout with this tool too easily though.

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Url to page is http://psd2cssonline.com/uploads/948748119/index.html

The original image (png because psd can't be uploaded) I reduced the size as well to about 50%

And the code is attached below, however there are a lot of files (images and such) so I have included the html and the css files only, if you want the js files or images ask and I will attach them later, to another post.

@cmoyer can you post/attach

decibel.places — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:02:09 +0000

@cmoyer

can you post/attach some output code?

my Indian partner will be evaluating it tomorrow, I'll let you know the results.

This came up on a LinkedIn group discussion "What do CSS designers and designers need in order to design your drupal sites?"

I did a very simple psd

cmoyer — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:21:40 +0000

I did a very simple psd (only 2 layers) with one layer centered on the other.

You can't upload a psd over 4mb as a standard user, however if you become a member you can get up to 8mb upload.

It converted my simple image well, it adds javascripts to the zip file as well (I think to preload the images?)

The finished design is all images, no text at all. Other than that it is an interesting tool none the less, though I wouldn't suggest using it for production as the page will take forever to load. (my small page took about 40sec on dsl)

I'd really like to see the

Megan — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:38:28 +0000

I'd really like to see the results of that. Can't imagine it could generate a properly coded layout automatically. Valid, sure, but that's not the same as being well made.