PSD to HTML is one of the most popular web development techniques in today's world. Here the site is designed in Photoshop after which the different sections are sliced and coded in HTML. The easiest way to code a website into HTML markup is to make use of software and tools. These WYSIWYG editors allow you to convert the PSD to HTML with minimum effort compared to manually coding the website. But as is the case with most easy techniques, they have their disadvantages. Let us take a look at some of the disadvantages that this coding technique has.
1. Bugs and Errors - Since the coding is done using software it usually leaves behind lots of bugs and errors. This often harms the performance of your website on the browser and the search engines. In worst cases these errors create security issues for the website as viruses and Trojan horses exploit these loopholes creating performance issues with your website and sharing data with unauthorized parties.
2. Heavy Code Base - In most cases software tends to generate unnecessary lines of codes which make the website heavy. This results in slow loading websites which crawl at snail's pace on slow internet connections. This dents the marketing potential of your website as most visitors don't like slow loading websites.
3. Search Engine Visibility - One of the primary goals for any web developer is to develop a website which ranks high on the search engines. This is decided by the quality of the HTML codes and in case of software based PSD to HTML conversion the quality of the code would be poor in most cases thus affecting the performance of the website on the search engines.
4. Flexibility - Once you have developed a website you need to make changes and updates on a regular basis to keep up with the changing trends in the market. With software generated codes one would find it extremely difficult to do as slight modification would create errors in the appearance and functionality of the website.
5. Validation and Cross Browser Compatibility - It is must for any website to undergo W3C validation as this check for the errors in the code base. Software generated code seldom pass W3C validation. Apart from this such websites also fail to appear and function uniformly on different web browsers thus hurting your brand name.
6. Consistency - A PSD to HTML website needs to be consistent and uniform to be popular with the users. This consistency has to be in the color scheme, fonts, images which are controlled by the CSS or the Cascading Style Sheet. WYSIWUG editors fail to keep the website consistent and uniform which lends it an unprofessional look and harms its performance.