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.

My work

Hey, That’s My Site

June 25, 2009

Today, I was read­ing through my RSS feeds and came to an arti­cle, 23 Flour­ish Designs, Part 2 on Inspiredol­ogy. I opened it up, and to my sur­prise, was a par­tial screen­shot of big-break.com, a site that I designed at the end of 2008. Thanks for the honor, Inspiredology.

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Where is the fun haiku

September 24, 2008

Where did the fun go? Many detail tasks to attend I want to design My team leader men­tioned yes­ter­day that the fun has not been in his work recently. I feel the same way. I want to design or craft a Web page. But too many other details or meet­ings have taken my time. These are […]

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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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GodSquad.com helps launch new outreach in North Carolina

March 3, 2008

This is a story that high­lights how one of the Web sites I develop is help­ing Cam­pus Cru­sade to reach stu­dents by launch­ing new min­istries: In North Car­olina, a pastor’s wife emailed Cam­pus Crusade’s staff want­ing to start a min­istry at Rich­mond Com­mu­nity Col­lege. By the time the staff met with her, the pastor’s wife […]

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Control” on the Web

May 18, 2007

Lately, one of my inter­ests has been to improve my skills in the area of typog­ra­phy (started after hear­ing Cameron Moll’s Essen­tial Web Skills). I have read a cou­ple of books on the sub­ject and come across some great resources on the Web. A cou­ple of weeks ago, I heard Richard Rut­ter of Clear­left speak to […]

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Off to Denver

January 1, 2007

I am head­ing to Den­ver today to attend the Den­ver Christ­mas Con­fer­ence. This is a gath­er­ing over about 1000 stu­dents from Kansas, Mis­souri, Nebraska, Col­orado, New Mex­ico, Wyoming and other places. I am going to be inter­view­ing stu­dents at the con­fer­ence to help me guide me in future improve­ments to GodSquad.com. I am tak­ing the […]

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The Holy Spirit and Creativity

October 30, 2006

Orig­i­nally posted on Godly Cre­ative Peo­ple Forum on August 22. It gives a lit­tle more back­ground on the heart behind my new theme of “thir­ty­o­nethree.“ This sum­mer I took a the­ol­ogy class with Dr. Bruce Ware of South­ern Sem­i­nary. One of the lec­tures focused on the Holy Spirit. Dr. Ware pointed out that the Holy […]

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thirtyonethree :: Launch of a new theme

October 23, 2006

I am excited to finally launch a new theme/look to this web­site. I was inspired this sum­mer by Exo­dus 31:3. Beza­lel was a craft­man who was filled with the Holy Spirit to make “artis­tic designs” in the build­ing of the Taber­na­cle. Craft­man is the word I would use to describe myself. And I hope that […]

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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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CollegeWalk mentioned on Breakpoint (updated)

August 12, 2006

One of the sites that I designed and devel­oped, Col­lege­Walk, was men­tioned yes­ter­day on Chuck Colson’s Break­point. Col­lege­Walk helps con­nect Chris­t­ian fresh­man to cam­pus min­istries. The site was men­tioned as a resource at the end of the seg­ment on char­ac­ter on the col­lege cam­pus. Col­lege­Walk is a site that I would like to develop further […]

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CM2007 :: My Latest Design

August 11, 2006

My lat­est design project was to build a web­site for CM2007. CM2007 is Cam­pus Cru­sade for Christ’s first global stu­dent mis­sions con­fer­ence and it will be held next sum­mer in South Korea. Much as the Stu­dent Vol­un­teer Move­ment launched a wave of col­lege stu­dents to the world as mis­sion­ar­ies, Cam­pus Cru­sade is trust­ing God for a […]

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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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New Look 2.0 and 2.1

March 25, 2006

I gave the site a new look on Fri­day. I was watch­ing the NCAA tour­na­ment and liked the color scheme of the Final Four logo so I used it with the site. I may play with it a lit­tle bit more but I like it much bet­ter than my pre­vi­ous theme. I did play with the […]

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What Makes GodSquad.com Successful??

December 21, 2005

I recently got an email from a for­mer Cam­pus Cru­sade for Christ staff mem­ber who is now work­ing with Prison Fel­low­ship. He wanted to get some tips based on my work with GodSquad.com. Here is my response: To be hon­est, I am hav­ing some trou­ble in deter­min­ing what to tell you. I feel like the […]

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Changes

December 9, 2005

Last Fri­day, I found out that I am join­ing another team. I will now be part of the Inno­va­tion Cen­ter fo Tech­nol­ogy. If I under­stand cor­rectly, I am going to con­tinue to do what I have been doing, which is main­tain­ing and evolv­ing sev­eral key Web assets. Sev­eral weeks ago, I had pro­posed cre­at­ing an […]

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Radio Interview

December 9, 2005

It was an inter­est­ing expe­ri­ence being inter­viewed on the radio yes­ter­day. I thought it was being taped and it was live and I did not really get prepped. I had pre­pared some things in my head which was help­ful. I think it went well. Much like my wed­ding. I feel like it went by quickly […]

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Going to Be on the Radio

December 8, 2005

This morn­ing I was asked to do a radio inter­view. Sky­light Radio Net­work con­tacted Cam­pus Cru­sade want­ing to inter­view some­one about how Chris­tians could use the Nar­nia movie as an out­reach oppor­tu­nity. My team leader sug­gested me and our direc­tor of cor­po­rate com­mu­ni­ca­tions con­tacted me. I have put together some resources on GodSquad.com on this […]

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Into Narnia

December 7, 2005

I have spent the last five days work­ing on a book­let that stu­dents can use to share the gospel using the movie, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I esti­mated that I spent over 20 hours on it. I was very excited when I fin­ished it yes­ter­day. It was a labor of love and […]

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