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.

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Great Designers <del>Steal</del> Practice

April 15, 2009

Last week, Cameron Moll posted Good Musi­cians Copy. It was a follow-up to a post he made sev­eral years ago, Good Design­ers Copy, Great Design­ers Steal. In that arti­cle, Cameron was: “…attempt­ing to describe the idea of becom­ing a bet­ter designer by dis­sect­ing, ana­lyz­ing, and ‘copy­ing’ the works of other design­ers.” In his follow-up article, […]

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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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Licensing music for podcast intros

May 19, 2008

Brian Chris­tiansen wrote about the music he uses for the UIE pod­casts. Brian men­tioned that he has licensed the music through ASCAP. I checked their Web site and there is infor­ma­tion about get­ting a license to use music for pod­cast intros, etc. The min­i­mum license fee is $288 annu­ally and then the bal­ance is determined […]

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Design is in the Details

May 2, 2008

Here are some mem­o­rable points from Dan Rubin and Bryan Veloso’s talk, Design is in the Details from Web­mas­ter Jam 2007, get MP3 of talk from RSS feed. I lis­tened to this talk over my Christ­mas vaca­tion. I lis­tened to it again this morn­ing. I had imme­di­ately applied sev­eral of the things they talked about […]

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Setting up a Podcast, Take 2

April 26, 2007

Over a year and a half ago, I did a post on set­ting up a pod­cast. Essen­tially I just shared what I had learned in the process of set­ting one up myself. I had found out that it is not very com­pli­cated. Today I got a phone call from some­one ask­ing me this ques­tion. Since […]

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Setting Up a Podcast

September 1, 2005

May 2007: See updated tuto­r­ial on set­ting up a pod­cast I suc­cess­fully set up a pod­cast today. Here are the steps involved: I down­loaded a free­ware record­ing pro­gram called “Audac­ity” I also down­loaded from their web­site a plu­gin to con­vert audio to mp3 for­mat which is what is used in pod­cast­ing. There are instruc­tions on how […]

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