Adobe releases BrowserLab for Web Designers

Posted by charles in Business, Featured, News, Software, browsers on June 3rd, 2009

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What started as an idea in our humble office on the north side of Chicago is now available to web designers worldwide!

BrowserLab, formerly named Meer Meer, was made available for free trial download on June 2. Read the press release…

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Creating Fluid AS3 Flash Layouts: Extending The Basics.

Posted by Ryan Nasipak in Code, Inspiration, Tutorials on May 18th, 2009

Welcome back! :)

This is part two of (how many I’m not quite sure) a tutorial series in working with AS3 fluid flash layouts. If you missed part one (Creating Fluid AS3 Flash Layouts: The Basics.), I’d highly recommend giving it…

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Getting Your Pages Ready for IE8

Posted by steve in browsers on May 5th, 2009

As IE 6 starts fading into the soft glow of the sunset in the distance we need to start looking ahead to IE 8 compatibility. Internet Explorer 8 was released a few weeks ago and according to the W3Schools.com its…

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Panoramic View of San Francisco Part II, Night Time.

Posted by Ryan Nasipak in Friends, Inspiration on May 4th, 2009

If you missed our first panoramic post, you’re in luck!

We’ve updated the labs photo viewer to accommodate a second gorgeous image by our friend Dean Vukas. Click on the day / night buttons to view either shot.

You can download the…

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Flash & HTML Website Integration - Best Practices

Posted by steve in Code, Tutorials, Usability on May 1st, 2009

Recently at Billups Design we built a fully functional HTML replica of a client’s flash site and were puzzled as to the latest and best practices for integrating that HTML site with the existing Flash site to ensure the greatest…

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Billups Design wins prestigious Horizon Interactive Gold and Bronze awards

Posted by charles in Awards, Business, Featured, Marketing, News, Reviews on April 23rd, 2009

Though the official announcement isn’t due out for a few days, we’ve learned that we took home two big awards this year at the Horizon Interactive 2009 competition. markshale.com won Gold in the eCommerce / Sales category and may win more…

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Review: MacRabbit’s Espresso

Posted by steve in Reviews, Software on April 14th, 2009

A couple weeks ago Macrabbit released the much anticipated Espresso 1.0 application. Its meant to rival the feature set of Panic’s Coda by being more or less a one stop shop for editing, uploading, and previewing Web files. Espresso doesn’t…

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MIT Media Lab’s SixthSense is Web 3.0

Posted by ted in Findings, Inspiration, News, browsers on April 10th, 2009

It is my belief that Web 3.0 is the integration of digital content into our daily physical lives. The MIT Media Lab are working on a prototype called SixthSense that takes a leap forward in this quest. To better acquaint…

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Panoramic View of San Francisco.

Posted by Ryan Nasipak in Friends, Inspiration on April 8th, 2009

Ever wondered what the city of San Francisco looks like from a rooftop deck? If so, we have a great image for you (taken by one of our good friends Dean Vukas).  We thought the photo was so great, we…

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It’s Finally Time for IE6’s Curtain Call

Posted by steve in Software, Usability, browsers on April 6th, 2009

In the world of web development there has been a recent push from all around the world to finally drop support for IE6. It’s understandable since IE8 is now released and IE6 is about 8 years old, an antique in…

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