Jeff Bridgforth :: Webcraftsman

Let’s talk about me

I am a Web designer pas­sion­ate about user experience

User expe­ri­ence has always been very impor­tant to me because I was a Web user before I was a Web designer. I cre­ate inter­faces that are not only beau­ti­ful aes­thet­i­cally, but also work beau­ti­fully so that the Web user can accom­plish his or her task and get on to liv­ing their life.

I am a Web strategist

A project can never be just about a Web site. Whether it is using Twit­ter, Face­book, other social media, or going mobile, the client needs a cus­tomized Web strat­egy that will lever­age the numer­ous ways that their con­tent can be accessed beyond their Web site.

For the past 10 years, I have given lead­er­ship to the Web strat­egy for the U.S. Cam­pus Min­istry of Cam­pus Cru­sade for Christ which serves over 800 cam­puses, with a desire to expand to more. I con­sis­tently chal­lenge those I work with to think beyond just build­ing a Web site to devel­op­ing a Web strat­egy that meets their min­istry objectives.

I am a CSS and HTML expert

I am an expert CSS coder who pushes CSS to its lim­its in all my projects. I have been incor­po­rat­ing CSS3 in recent projects to enhance the user expe­ri­ence in the browsers that sup­port it. I am also very well-versed in HTML and pre­fer to hand code. I have advanced knowl­edge of Pho­to­shop and Fire­works; and Illus­tra­tor is becom­ing one of my favorite tools. I have pro­gram­ming expe­ri­ence with PHP and MySQL and have been devel­op­ing those skills of late in Word­Press. I also have expe­ri­ence with SVN ver­sion con­trol and back-end expe­ri­ence with set­ting up Web sites through server con­trol pan­els and using SSH when necessary.

I value pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment and I am cat­a­lyst for resource release

I have an unquench­able thirst for learn­ing. I have a pas­sion for the Web and love to keep up on the lat­est trends and tech­niques. I have taken advan­tage of con­fer­ences like User Inter­face, Refresh ’06, and Pho­to­shop World to improve my skills and learn from the industry’s best.

Not only do I love to learn, but I also love to pass it along. Whether it is men­tion­ing a book or blog post to a col­league, shar­ing a link on Twit­ter, or writ­ing a post on my per­sonal blog or my cre­ative team’s blog, I love to empower oth­ers with the knowl­edge I have gained. One of my dreams is to give back to the Web design com­mu­nity by shar­ing what I have learned.

Let’s talk about you

You are pas­sion­ate about doing impor­tant work that impacts pos­i­tive social change

You like work­ing with non-profits because it is impor­tant and reward­ing. You believe that it is an honor to be involved with orga­ni­za­tions that engage in amaz­ing efforts to cre­ate pos­i­tive change in our world.

You value devel­op­ing your team and engag­ing the wider community

I admire that you want to develop every team mem­ber to their fullest poten­tial. And you want to give back to the larger com­mu­nity through blog­ging, speak­ing at con­fer­ences, par­tic­i­pat­ing in meet-ups or being involved in open source development.

Who you need

You need an inter­ac­tive designer with an impres­sive port­fo­lio who shares your val­ues of peo­ple first, being a team player, and doing impor­tant work that impacts pos­i­tive social change.

Pick me

I have the design skills you are look­ing for. I have an impres­sive por­to­lio, a great under­stand­ing of typog­ra­phy, and expe­ri­ence using grid sys­tems in my layouts.

I am a team player who val­ues peo­ple and enjoys work­ing with oth­ers col­lab­o­ra­tively in the cre­ative process.

I value doing work that is impor­tant and adds value to people’s lives. I want to be part of a cre­ative team that lever­ages tech­nol­ogy to change the world. Aten is doing that. I would like to become a part of your team.

I strive to develop my skills to their fullest poten­tial to serve both my team, the client, and the client’s audi­ence. I want to make a big­ger con­tri­bu­tion to the larger Web com­mu­nity by par­tic­i­pat­ing and pre­sent­ing at Web con­fer­ences and seminars.

I am con­fi­dent that I can make an imme­di­ate and valu­able con­tri­bu­tion to Aten.

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