Markupwand (YC S12) Takes The Pain Out Of Translating Photoshop Files To HTML

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/17/markupwand/

by kennethologist • 14 years ago

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chimi• 14 years ago

It's a neat idea. It'll be a lot of work to get right. In the meantime, I can send a psd, png, whatever to cssilize and have it chopped up by a human into great looking html and images and I don't have to piece-meal the psd myself to conform to what markupwand needs:

http://www.cssilize.com

It's like $35 or something per page.

bevenky2• 14 years ago

this is still manual. This is the exact problem markup wand solves.. isnt it :)

alagu2• 14 years ago

Thanks for HN Post! Could you please add (YCS12) to the title?

samstave• 14 years ago

How can I get on the closed beta?

haxplorer• 14 years ago

It is open for everyone now. You could sign up on the website

http://www.markupwand.com/signup

justinph• 14 years ago

To me, this is useful for making testable prototypes, or sites that need to be thrown together on very short order with a short lifespan.

But unless they're able to generate responsive layouts and markup that's not semantic & clean, it's not useful beyond that.

startupfounder• 14 years ago

True, but for a v1 product this will help designers push as fast as engineers.

bevenky2• 14 years ago

they are a smart team. im sure they will get there soon, if they dont do it now.

yesimahuman2• 14 years ago

I'm working on something that hopefully will, if you're using Bootstrap as a base: http://jetstrap.com/

Of course, this is not a photoshop->responsive tool, but it skips the first part.

alagu2• 14 years ago

That is interesting, just added myself to alpha list. Eager to try it out!

oneplusone• 14 years ago

I would never do this for a website or web app, but if they could make it code emails that work in every email client I would use it immediately. I don't care how shitty the code looks.

craze3• 14 years ago

I don't see why you couldn't use this to create an HTML email template?

kevinwdavid• 14 years ago

Interesting idea..Love it just signed up.

dsawler• 14 years ago

I don't understand how people are still designing for the web in an image manipulation application. There are so many other tools out there today to get you to a design much quicker than Photoshop.

nlh• 14 years ago

Maybe you could give some examples of those tools? I'm not asking to be snarky - I'm genuinely curious.

paulmckeever• 14 years ago

There are quite a few new services emerging that are making designers less dependent on drawing tools:

* Gridset (http://gridsetapp.com) -- for working out your grid and bringing it into a prototype

* Typecast (http://beta.typecastapp.com) -- design with web fonts

* Easel (http://easel.io) -- a browser-based alternative to Fireworks

* CSS Piffle (http://csspiffle.com) -- haven't actually used this yet but looks similar to Easel from the outside

* Adobe Muse (http://www.adobe.com/products/muse.html) -- not well received but maybe an indication of Adobe's future direction

[disclaimer: I'm part of the Typecast team].

Photoshop and Fireworks are great and I don't see many designers abandoning desktop software entirely. But I think there are plenty of tools that can help you get into the browser more quickly.

Markupwand (YC S12) Takes The Pain Out Of Translating Photoshop Files To HTML

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