We couldn’t be prouder! The CSS Awards recently recognized savvyavenue.com as one of the best CSS-built sites anywhere! It will be entered into their ‘Site of the Year’ competition this fall. Thank you to a lot of people on this one: Steve, Bryant, Omnia, Bob, Nik, Christine, Courtney, Stacy, Ryan, Tyler, Charles and Ted. Great work, as always, everyone!
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The CSS Awards tap Billups Design and Savvy Avenue
Awesome Dev+Design Playground
Every so often I come across a company or community of developers (and designers) who put out great, inspiring, innovative work…for free.
I believe a big part of being an active member of any community, such as the “people who build websites community”, is to give back and provide people with the opportunity to learn and grow. On top of giving information and showing how things can be done and built, every now and then you come across work that is a notch above the rest.
Recently, I was browsing a popular design/dev website and came across this playground, built and maintained…
Read MoreDesignFridge UK honors billupsdesign.com
We love our friends across the pond! DesignFridge UK has included billupsdesign.com among its best Web 2.0 sites of 2009. That’s a pretty nice tip of the old derby. If you have time, visit DesignFridge UK, and see their entire gallery of 2009 outstanding web sites designed and developed in html/css. To view our feature page, go here. Thanks, gentle people!
Read MoreBeing a More Efficient Web Designer
1. Using Pre-made Form Elements
Often when designing a web comp we need to incorporate items that are part of the browser GUI. These elements, like it or not, are part of the overall design. So its often many designer’s habit to fire up their browser, find a checkbox, radio button, text input, etc. and grab a screen shot. However, there is a better way. The Designer’s Toolbox has done all this for us and organized every browser’s unique elements into an easy to use layered PSD file. Just keep them nearby and whenever you need a browser GUI element you can…
Web Marketing Association Awards Billups Design
This is indeed something to celebrate! Billups Design has been once again recognized by the Web Marketing Association Awards for 2009, earning the Consumer Goods Standard of Excellence Award. We are excited to receive this award on behalf of Nike and the Nike ID Custom Shoe Builder application launched earlier this year. More exciting yet, the project was hailed by Nike as a major success and they have now designated Billups Design a preferred agency. Thank you to all the usual suspects – you’ve done it again!
Read MoreGetting Your Pages Ready for IE8
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 already climbed to 1.4% market share. There’s no doubt its going to gain traction and become one of the most used browsers on the planet. So what new quirks of IE8 are out there, what about our good friends quirks and standards mode, and what about Microsoft’s latest proprietary IE 8 features?
CSS Improvements
The day IE 8 came out we posted…
Read More4 Techniques to Display Any Typeface in HTML
Typography on the web has always left something to be desired. With so few options it can be frustrating to many web designers. However, recently there have been many developments on the web typography frontier and now with a little extra work there are ways to get any typeface you want to display on your web pages.
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sIFR is perhaps the best known dynamic text replacement technique. It was first conceived by Shaun Inman as a way to dynamically replace HTML text with flash text. It’s a great solution from a user standpoint because the text not only looks great, but it…
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