Our project to ease the HTML/CSS pain for developers. Exclusive closed beta for IL ruby group

[Michael Mazyar (Astrails)]

Hi everybody.

We'd like to let you taste something we've been cooking lately.
Something new and still unseen by public.
Something cool, at least we thing it is, duh! :)

Let me introduce you to the Slicer:
What is it?

In short it takes you 80% way from HTML markup to Rails layout and
templates.

You know how it works...
1. You get your design as PSD files from your designer.
2. You convert them into HTML/CSS markup that looks as close to design
as possible
4. You swear all the way when you check how it looks in IE :)
3. Then you "slice" it into layouts, templates and partials.

We can't help you with IE, for that you'll have to talk to Steve Jobs
and ask him why it takes him so long to kill Microsoft :)

But the last step (i.e. slicing) is where we come.
Or rather our brand new, 28% more <insert your buzzword here> Markup
Slicer: http://markupslicer.com

This is now it works:

1. Upload a .zip with your HTML/CSS files
2. We open the zip file for you and show you your page
3. Point at page areas, click and name them
4. Press 'slice' and it will extract them into partials.
5. You can download the results page by page or all at once.

Only ERB and HAML are supported for now thought we plan to add more
(vote on site for your favorites).

Oh, and of course its all free.

And it's so much fun to click, you just have to try it.

It is easier to try then explain with words. So go play with it at
http://markupslicer.com/
There is a 'demo project' linked from the homepage that you can abuse.

[Elad Meidar]

This is kind of nice too.. http://drnicwilliams.com/2009/10/06/install-any-html-themetemplate-into-your-rails-app/

been using it for a while now, great results.
--
Elad Meidar
eize...@gmail.com
http://blog.eizesus.com

[Avishai Weiss]

Pretty sweet! Nicely done.

[Boris Nadion]

Thanks guys!

Your feedback is very much appreciated.
Feel free to share you ideas with us :-)

Boris Nadion
http://astrails.com
http://blog.astrails.com

[alexey]

Michael, thanks

I need to implement new complex design and will test http://markupslicer.com
soon :)

Elad stzuko merzkoe zhivotnoye :P

[Elad Meidar]

after vipy yaddu szuko, dalbayob :)

i don't even know if i am writing it the right way :)

--
Elad Meidar
eize...@gmail.com
http://blog.eizesus.com

[David Paluy]

Looks very interesting.

I will try it on my next project.

BTW, can you, please, describe more deeply your process working with
designers. What kind of tools are you using for CSS? etc.

On Oct 27, 8:08 pm, "Michael Mazyar (Astrails)" <taa...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> It is easier to try then explain with words. So go play with it athttp://markupslicer.com/

[Boris Nadion]

Hi,

We get UI from designers in PSD or plain images, and then we use 2 tools:

* browser pointed to http://psd2html.com
* credit card

:-)

They do the job quite fast and the quality is quite high, their htmls
are very easy to integrate because they understand the dynamic nature,
everything works in all browsers. And they are very cheap.
Highly recommended.

Boris Nadion
http://astrails.com
http://blog.astrails.com

[erez]

אנחנו נותנים שרות דומה
http://www.qcm.co.il/designers

On Oct 29, 11:37 am, Boris Nadion <borisnad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We get UI from designers in PSD or plain images, and then we use 2 tools:
>

> * browser pointed tohttp://psd2html.com

> * credit card
>
> :-)
>
> They do the job quite fast and the quality is quite high, their htmls
> are very easy to integrate because they understand the dynamic nature,
> everything works in all browsers. And they are very cheap.
> Highly recommended.
>

> Boris Nadionhttp://astrails.comhttp://blog.astrails.com

[Boris Nadion]

Hi Erez,

What do you think about markupslicer.com?
Did you try it? What's missing?

Your feedback is valuable for us and the community ;-)

Boris Nadion
http://astrails.com
http://blog.astrails.com

[erez]

שלום בוריס

נראה מצויין פשוט נקי קל וגם עובד לא רע בכלל בדמו
זה לא פשוט להוציא מוצר ברמה כזו, ניתן להרגיש את ההשקעה הפיזית והרגשית
שלכם
אני במיטה עם הנייד\לינוקס\פיירפוקס אין לי כפתור בחירת קובץ מהמחשב יש
שם בעיה, לא בדקתי על מחשב אחר
למה זה בחינם באופן גורף?

On Oct 29, 12:25 pm, Boris Nadion <borisnad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Erez,
>
> What do you think about markupslicer.com?
> Did you try it? What's missing?
>
> Your feedback is valuable for us and the community ;-)
>

> Boris Nadionhttp://astrails.comhttp://blog.astrails.com

[Boris Nadion]

Thanks Erez!

We use flash uploader, seems need to check if there is flash installed.
Will fix.

Thanks again.
Boris Nadion
http://astrails.com
http://blog.astrails.com

[Elad Meidar]

Why a flash uploader? think of people that block flash.
Most of devs do actually, i don't see why that's even necessary in
your case.

--
Elad Meidar
eize...@gmail.com
http://blog.eizesus.com

[Boris Nadion]

We will consider to remove flash uploader.

Boris Nadion
http://astrails.com
http://blog.astrails.com

[alexey]

Few my comments after using:

<form class="new_vote" action="#" id="new_vote">
why not make it to:
<% form_for @object, :url => some_path do %>

and then:
</form> to <% end %>

next same to <a href> to <%= link_to ... %>
<img src>, <link href> (head tag), <%= javascript/stylesheet includes
%> etc ..

would be nice to make erb/haml much closer to erb markup.

anyway very nice project guys