Thank you to the good folks at Creattica who recently featured the Billups Design web site as an outstanding example of interface design and HTML/CSS practices. You can visit the page here: Creattica feature page. We are already meeting many new people because of this prestigious feature posting and we’re excited!
Read MoreWe’re very excited to have been spotlighted in this year’s AIGA Chicago Annual 2009 for our work on the Nike ‘Show Your Colors’ digital contest campaign / HighSchoolSports design and code integration. We want to congratulate everyone on the team who contributed to this project here; your seamless integration, technical and artistic contributions in collaboration with our partner agencies made this project a rollicking success! And thank you, AIGA Chicago. We’ll see you next year.
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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 a look here (especially if you have some lingering questions on how all of this is working). It goes much more in depth as to the how and why of what we’re doing to create some of these CSS like effects in actionscript.
Another reason I would recommend starting from that first tutorial is that we’ll be extending the original file we…
Read MoreRecently 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 usability and SEO results. We had a few options that came to mind first.
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Read MoreWhen I first started developing in flash, there were inevitably things that just made me want to pull my hair out. Basic physics, Actionscript vs. timeline animation and embedding assets vs. creating them at run-time were just a few of the areas I really wrestled with early on. Part of the problem stemmed from a desire to go from 0-60 in 2 seconds (and that might be on the high side). I was like Nike, just do it. *** As a side, that reaches my corny joke quota for this blog….so please, read on.
When I jump in to a project…
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