Posted by
charles
in Awards on December 9th, 2009
Here’s a reprint of their press release:
CHICAGO, IL — Billups Design, Inc., is a multi-disciplinary core of outstanding talents in the areas of digital brand consulting, information architecture, interface design, user experience, multimedia, front-end development and application development. Billups Design also offers valuable services in content creation, branding, messaging, SEO/SEM and post-launch metrics., today announced that it has been awarded Outstanding Achievement in Website Development by the Interactive Media Awards™ for its work on the Art Iron web site. The honor recognizes that the project met and surpassed the basic standards of excellence that comprise the web’s most professional work.…
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Posted by
charles
in Awards, Design on October 16th, 2009
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!
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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 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…
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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 usability and SEO results. We had a few options that came to mind first.
- A splash page to allow the user to choose the HTML Site or the Flash Site.
- A separate directory for the HTML Site to live that only Google would see.
- A flash detection that would redirect the user to the HTML site if it didn’t have Flash, Google included.
None…
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Posted by
Ryan Nasipak
in Code, Inspiration, Tutorials, Usability on March 20th, 2009
When 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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