It would obviously be Internet Browsers the winners given the time, but right now, HTML5 is winning the battle. Never the less, there are some browsers way ahead of the game (Safari), whilst others have an intermediate (Firefox) or have a poor support (Internet Explorer).

This topic has become a headache to all PSD to HTML coders because theme designers must make sure it function on the 5 Internet Browsers which is a real challenge alone, and now with this new release there is nothing left other than wait.

There are some browsers testers you can find out there, such as:

The HTML5 test, score an indication of how well your browser supports the upcoming HTML5 standard and related specifications. It does not try to test all of the new features offered by it, nor does it try to test the functionality of each feature. It was created by Niels Leenheer and developed at Github.

FindMeByIP.com a simple app which reveals your browsers’ support for CSS3 and HTML5 features through an easy to read format. On this site you can find some browsers statics to know how are they working out

And for those who do not understand anything on the tables, here is a little translation:

• Internet Explorer does support font-face, it also display a marked lack of support for almost every kind of advanced/progressive feature.  Hopefully the IE team will be able to look at this in a future release, for now it still gives our coders a headache for how much you cannot do with it, remember we have to get IE6 to 1%!
• Safari has by far the best feature set in the current market; it has an excellent support for CSS3 animation properties such as CSS Transforms & CSS Animations, which enable the developer to define javascript-like rotation, movement and easing to create any CSS website template. HTML5 features are well supported with Canvas, Video and Audio.
• Firefox has good support for features that you might be looking to use in your client work on a day-to-day basis, font-face, box-shadow, rgba() and border-radius all work nicely. It implements the first public draft of the Geolocation specification from the W3C.
• Google’s Chrome browser has a well-established reputation for being not only extremely fast at rendering JavaScript, but also robust in its support of cutting-edge HTML5 technologies. The hope is that these emerging standards will be widely used to power new web apps, as well as for playing animations, songs and videos in the browser without any plug-ins.
• Opera only support authors to specify multiple media resources for media elements. It does not represent anything on its own. It is used for plug-in content. Represents a resolution-dependent bitmap canvas, which can be used for rendering graphs, game graphics, or other visual images on the fly.

How is your browser working out for you?

Shopify is an online e-commerce platform that allows individuals to create online stores. The platform currently hosts over 10,000 online retailers, including stores for rock band Foo Fighters and the game Angry Birds, to name a few. It is the most elegant, simple and affordable online retail platform aimed at providing businesses with easy to use e-commerce solutions, taking the challenge out of setting up and managing e-commerce storefronts. Its scalable and flexible full-featured platform enables any size business to efficiently launch and operate an online retail presence with ease.

As you create your storefront, you will be entering each product and organizing them into categories. Shopify gives you a spot for photos and descriptions, and it is very explicit where everything goes. No two websites are the same, and you’ll be able to use so many different colors and web-safe fonts you will be impressed.

Its platform includes a content management system that allows users to manage inventory, edit CSS and HTML codes, create discounts and accept online payments with Paypal and major credit cards. On 2009 it launched their API platform (developers can create custom applications for Shopify online stores) and App Store. The Shopify Theme Store was revealed on 2010; developers can sell theme templates designed for stores using the Shopify platform.

Some benefits they offer are:

• The App Store enables you to add new features to your online store. You can also develop your own features using the Shopify API.
• They install your online store and also take care of future patches and updates for you.
• Every store has an industry standard 128 Bit SSL encrypted checkout to protect private data.
• It ensures that your customers’ information and your order data are hidden both during and after transactions.
• They run automatic backups to ensure your online store’s data will always be safe and sound.
• Shopify is constantly improving its features and we provide free updates and regularly add new features for all of our clients at no extra charge.

Liquid Web e-Commerce solutions are extremely powerful and fully customizable to suit your needs, when combined with Heroic Support, you can be certain your online store is ready for your customers 24/7. It offers support for unlimited products, product categories, multiple payment gateways, multi-currency support, and so much more. Liquid is an extraction from the e-commerce system Shopify, it allows the customers complete design freedom while maintaining the integrity of their servers.

Every eCommerce software product has such different methods of pricing, it makes it difficult to compare, and you have to study the rates packages closely so you can get what you want.

Shopify is now introducing the newest official theme Couture, a theme designed for totally fashion shops, some awesome new web technologies (Google WebFonts and HTML5), and a few custom Javascript, makes a beautiful theme designed with the latest web standards and a bright future in mind.

Who needs to go to a store now?

HTML coding is pretty complicated to those who have never been related to the programming world before. Beautiful code cannot be perfectly done by everyone; you can find tutorials all over the Internet about how to code a beautiful menu, using web standards, web-safe fonts, etc; but you won’t find the necessary experience to know what the real problem is when that sidebar is just not working like you want it to, or the difference between HTML and XHTML, or the pros and cons of using HTML5, or how to understand what someone from a forum means when they give you responses such as these:

• “You don’t need the template code since everything is editable.”
• “/*url*/ and /*id*/ are html.”
• “Ending div tags are missing.”
• “Table width causes a vertical scrollbar on page.”
• “Lots of extra markup which could be eliminated with more CSS”

That is why we all have go through sleepless night working on HTML coding or dreaming about how that footer that won’t stick to the bottom of the page is going to capture us forever; some of us still do, but all of this is to make Internet a better place without any “do it yourself” coding that is definitely not going to work.

The best PSD to HTML service must be able to do this for you in a basic job:

• Hand-made PSD to CSS/HTML coding that is 100% W3C valid.
• Code that renders correctly in all major browsers.
• Code that will help drive traffic to your site.
• Pixel Perfect markup (some might not give you that, so be careful).

And all of these at a reasonable price. Also, remember to always ask about any other benefits the PSD to HTML service might provide such as discounts, installing process, or maybe the chance of paying a little extra for something that would blow everyone’s mind, just to name a few.

Imagine the time and sleep you can save by letting professionals work on your website and make you look totally awesome to the world. If you are completely new to this area, here are some tags you must know the meaning of, in order to understand the HTML structure:

• <!DOCTYPE>  Defines the document type.
• <address> Defines contact information for the author/owner of a document.
• <base /> allows authors to specify a document’s base URI explicitly.
• <body> Defines the document’s body.
• <div> Generic language/style container.
• <h1> to <h6> Defines HTML headings.
• <head> Defines information about the document.
• <img /> Defines an image.
• <a> Defines a link to another document.
• <link /> Defines the relationship between a document and an external resource (for example, stylesheets or javascript files).

These are just a few of the tags that can be used when developing HTML/CSS. So, do you see now why you should leave it in the hands of professionals?