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Address: 3 Bowyer House
Vermont Road
London SW18 2AE
Telephone: +44 (0)20 31382049
E-mail: hello@shapeshed.com
3 Apr 2008
Text only emails are a reliable alternative to HTML emails. They work in any email client and can be read by all. Here are some tips on how to make text only emails more user friendly. Read more
5 Apr 2008
The end of the tax year marks my second full year in business. Shape Shed has come a long way but there is much more to do. Read more
10 Apr 2008
Creating a grid to base your designs on is invaluable for giving structure to the page. Here's a quick introduction to grids and how you can speed up creating them in Photoshop. Read more
11 Apr 2008
The Email Standards Project has posted a tongue-in-cheek video asking Google to improve standards support in Gmail. Yahoo have acted on Yahoo Mail and have achieved everything in the acid test. Gmail needs to follow suit. Read more
17 Apr 2008
I attended the Future of Web Design Conference in London. For me the conference did not deliver on ideas but did on meeting people. Read more
20 Apr 2008
Until recently I'd been using desaturate to convert photographs to black and white in Photoshop. In fact there is a much better non-destructive method. Read more
21 Apr 2008
Smart Objects can save you a great deal of time if you are designing for the web in Photoshop. Furthermore they allow you to manipulate images without destroying the original. Read more
21 Apr 2008
Mobile versions of websites can be better than their bigger, richer web versions. Moreover user-focussed, task-driven mobile sites can inform and improve their bigger brothers. Read more
24 Apr 2008
I've been monitoring browser statistics on clients over the last few months in order to understand the effects of the IE7 forced update by Microsoft. Among corporate clients it doesn't seem to have had much effect and IE6 looks set to be around for a while. Read more
26 Apr 2008
Guides help you to line control objects and paths easily in Illustrator. Here's a short overview of the options and how Smart Guides can take it a step further. Read more
30 Apr 2008
If your camera can shoot in RAW format should you be using it? Here's a quick overview of the difference and what you can do with the RAW format in Photoshop. Read more
Address: 3 Bowyer House
Vermont Road
London SW18 2AE
Telephone: +44 (0)20 31382049
E-mail: hello@shapeshed.com
