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.

Practice of Design

Front-End Design Conference 2011

July 29, 2011

Last Thurs­day, I made a trek to St. Pete for the Front-End Design Con­fer­ence.  Dan and Cher­rie Den­ney are a class act and do an awe­some job of host­ing this event each year. It is a small, yet top shelf event with lead­ing voices from the indus­try. The atmos­phere that makes it easy to meet other […]

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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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What Informs Your Design?

August 3, 2009

Recently, I read Andy Rutledge’s arti­cle, On Inspi­ra­tion. As I read Andy’s arti­cle, I imme­di­ately thought about Cameron Moll’s idea of inspi­ra­tion vs. influ­ence. “Influ­ence is imme­di­ate and free for the tak­ing. Because of this, its util­ity is often short-lived. At times it may even serve as lit­tle more than a plat­form for dupli­ca­tion. “Inspiration, […]

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