Brand stewardship is a big thing - it can make or break most web development agencies. Design QA is an essential part of the test job so make sure it's at the forefront of the testers thoughts at all time.
Designers PSD's are the key, once the client has signed them off, create a design bible from them so the tester has a reference point and get them set up with cool rule, juicy studio plug in for Firefox and a bunch of test beds with all the browsers your sites supporting.
Pixel matching the HTML to PSD's is time consuming but essential if what the client eventually sees is what they were expecting to see. It also keeps your designers on side and reinforces the QA teams position in the company as not just button pushers.
When your logging your bugs show them what the issue is, Gadwin do an excellent print screen tool just for the job.
Repeat the process once template to application integration has taken place as this usually breaks the designs - but you know if there are problems that they are integration issues and not the templates per se.
Finally get design reviews as explicit tasks in the project plan. The last thing you want is designers on launch date pulling the site apart because it doesn't match their vision.
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