Jeff Bridgforth :: Webcraftsman

Crafting Web sites since 1999

I am a Web designer passionate about creating elegant, inspiring, and usable Web experiences that connect with an audience and fulfull business objectives.

CSS

Web designer—n.

August 27, 2009

What is a Web designer? Good ques­tion. And depend­ing on who you ask in the Web indus­try, you are bound to get a lot of dif­fer­ent answers. So let me share what I mean when I call myself a Web designer. First and fore­most, a Web designer is a prob­lem solver. A client comes with […]

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That’s Clever

March 24, 2009

A talk from SXSW on the clever things design­ers put in their design to add plea­sure to the expe­ri­ence. I lis­tened to the audio but look for­ward to view­ing the slides since this was a very visual pre­sen­ta­tion. I would like to think more about the ideas pre­sented here. It goes on usabil­ity to adding […]

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Adventures in sIFR

July 8, 2008

I enjoy the chal­lenge of learn­ing how to do new things. Work­ing with the Web is a great fit because there are always things to learn. Over the past year, I have tried to incor­po­rate some­thing new into every Web design project that I do. I am cur­rently work­ing on a new design for Cam­pus Crusade’s […]

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Web Design Best Practices Rap

May 22, 2008

This YouTube video fea­tures a rap about Web design best prac­tices. I found this via The Riss­ing­ton Podcast.

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Refresh06 — Crash Course Day

November 15, 2006

Today, I attended the first day of the Refresh06 Web con­fer­ence here in Orlando. I attended 2 crash courses. One of them was taught by Andy Budd, pic­tures on the right. I had read his CSS book last spring. I enjoyed meet­ing him and get­ting to chat with him a cou­ple of times dur­ing the […]

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Refresh06

November 14, 2006

I am really excited about attend­ing three day Web con­fer­ence here in Orlando. It is going to be great to pull back and focus on devel­op­ing my Web design and devel­op­ment skills. Tomor­row I am tak­ing 2 crash courses, CSS Mas­tery with Andy Budd and Under­stand­ing AJAX with Jeremy Keith. Andy’s book on CSS Mastery […]

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GodSquad Reboot — Take 2

September 5, 2006

Last month I was work­ing on a CSS Reboot of one of my sites, GodSquad.com. It is the only one of my sites that is still using tables for lay­out. A CSS Reboot is tak­ing a HTML table based design and con­vert­ing it into XHTML and CSS. Using CSS sep­a­rates the con­tent from the presentation. […]

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Throwing in the towel

August 10, 2006

I have decided to throw in the towel on a CSS Reboot design of God­Squad. (A reboot is tak­ing a design laid out with tables and con­vert­ing it to XHTML/CSS for lay­out.) I just can’t get a sig­nif­i­cant ele­ment to look good in IE6. I think I am going to set­tle for some mid­dle ground […]

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Working on Another Design

August 1, 2006

I also started work­ing on some design ideas to redo the home­page of campuscrusadeforchrist.com. I have been want­ing to do that for awhile. I don’t like the present one. I am pretty happy with the direc­tion it is going so far. See my work in progress>

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CSS Reboot for GodSquad, Day 4

August 1, 2006

Today was my fourth day of try­ing to move a design from using tables to lay­out the page to using XHTML/CSS. Each day I am able to solve some prob­lems and learn some­thing new but I am still not there yet. I am frus­trated that IE6 ren­ders things so dif­fer­ently from a stan­dards com­pli­ant browser […]

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Not quite a CSS Master

July 31, 2006

Back in May, I read Andy Budd’s book, CSS Mas­tery: Advanced Web Stan­dards Solu­tions. I wrote a review after read­ing the first two chap­ters. I think it is the most prac­ti­cal and help­ful book I have worked through on CSS. [Side­note: When I think about the book title, I think about becom­ing a CSS Mas­ter which […]

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Mastering CSS — A Book Review

May 17, 2006

Last week, I bought CSS Mas­tery by Andy Budd. I have been work­ing with CSS for page lay­out for about 3 years. The first year was mainly learn­ing through tuto­ri­als from Macro­me­dia and trial and error. I also spent time away work­ing on fund rais­ing for my min­istry role with Cam­pus Cru­sade for Christ. About […]

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Minimalism and Visual Design

May 12, 2006

I have been work­ing on sev­eral design ideas recently. The ten­sion I have felt is between min­i­mal­ism and com­ing up with a visu­ally appeal­ing design. As I have tried to min­i­mize the visual design using CSS, I have pro­duced designs that I am not too excited about. I want to find a bal­ance. I like […]

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