What PSD to XHTML conversion is all about.

PSD or a Photoshop document is a native format of Photoshop software. This software allows designing, creating and editing files with the help of Adobe Photoshop, which is today the most widely used image editing software programs. The format of this designing software is capable of supporting Bitmap, CMYK, Duotone, RGB, Lab, Grayscale, indexed color and Multi-channeled plus. This support provides Photoshop images with transparency, color spaces, ICC profiles, clipping paths, text, layered masks, etc. All these features allow an image to be created in the most customized way but just creating PSD images does not solve the purpose of a web design.
A design is complete from the prospect of a website when the process of PSD to XHTML conversion is implemented. XHTML or extensible hyper text markup language is an extension of XML markup language. XHTML was mainly created with the motive of improving the productivity and features of HTML or hypertext markup language. HTML has been used for coding web designs ever since the concept of website development was launched in the market. With the codes present in a HTML document, developers can easily write a web page as well as implement a PSD file into it.
However, with changing times and web trends, developers started to find mistakes and deficiencies in the process of PSD to HTML conversion. This was when, they felt the need for producing a markup language that was more competent and advanced tha
HTML and as a result XHTML came into existence. The most basic advantage that XHTML provides over HTML is that HTML documents require HTML specific parsers for the development process while XHTML documents can be parsed even with the help of standard XML parsers. Moreover, XHTML provides the efficient features of XML language to the whole development process, which HTML is not capable of providing.

This is how the process of PSD to XHTML conversion came into existence. Every PSD conversion process is not the same even when the markup language used in it is the same. Various conversion packages have different features but in any case, these features don’t compromise with valid and strict CSS and XHTML rules. As the end result of PSD conversion process and XHTML conversion, a website should possess better cross browser compatibility, a fast turnaround, efficient SEO coding, organized content presentation and lightweight CSS coding. All this features will ultimately provide your website with high conversion rate and better return on investment.