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in Code, Design, Findings, Inspiration, Uncategorized on January 28th, 2010
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…
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in Code, Design, Inspiration, Reviews on December 29th, 2009
In the grand scheme of my profession, that being a Web Developer, I would still consider myself to be a rookie. I have been developing web sites and getting paid for it, for around 3 years; however, I would probably say that I have been doing it “professionally” for around a year and a half. Even with my “rookie” status as a web developer, I do consider my talents to be very respectable, especially for the relatively short period of time I have been doing it. One thing I have noticed since I began my career is the difference between,…
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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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in Business, Findings, Inspiration, Tutorials on December 2nd, 2009
One of the most challenging aspects of working in an advertising or interactive agency is managing sensitive agency-client relations. Taking clients down the path to creating a successful marketing message or making a recommendation that they may not agree with can be fun and exciting or it can be an emotional, difficult and even scary process. It seems like it should be easy. Clients hire us for our expertise in creativity, strategic direction and user experience. You are paying for our service, so why not use us to our full potential?
There is definitely something to be said for letting an…
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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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steve
in Code, Design on October 5th, 2009
Recently I came across a little cross browser bug concerning the “button” element that caused some headaches between Webkit browsers and Firefox. The button element can be a great tool that is generally under utilized. It offers many more flexible options than the “input” element and degrades more gracefully than the “a” element. A great writeup can be found on the Particle Tree blog (Creators of the amazing form creation tool, Wufoo).
The problem I was encountering was when I was adding a span inside the button for design resigns and realized that no matter what I did Firefox was adding a…
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charles
in Awards, Business, Marketing on September 22nd, 2009
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!
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charles
in Awards, News on May 5th, 2009
It has been a good year for Billups Design in the awards category. We are happy to announce that the 2009 American Design Awards have recognized Billups Design with a Silver Medal for its work on markshale.com. The site was rated for its eCommerce engine, usability and layout, overall brand and interface design and cross-browser compatibility. This is a high honor for us as we’ve always admired the other winners in this semi-annual / annual competition. Congratulations to everyone on the Mark Shale team (SB, SB, RM and RK) and the BD team (RN, TB, CS, SM, and OI)!
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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 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…
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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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