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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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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Doing the “Right Things”

October 30, 2006

I was reminded of some­thing that I read sev­eral years ago that con­tin­ues to ring in my head and guide my heart. For many peo­ple, sim­pli­fy­ing means noth­ing more than “doing less.” But sim­pli­fy­ing is not so much about doing fewer things as it is about doing the right things. …For even the “ideal” sim­ple spiritual […]

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I made “The Switch” or Back to Mac

October 14, 2006

I made the switch on Mon­day. I am no longer work­ing on a Dell com­puter but a 17″ Mac­Book Pro. I have been think­ing about mak­ing the switch for sev­eral months. The option only opened up recently. I finally emailed one of my team lead­ers a cou­ple of weeks ago and told him I wanted […]

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Hungary is on my mind

September 22, 2006

I took this pic­ture last March while vis­it­ing Budapest, Hun­gary . It is a memo­r­ial to the 1956 rev­o­lu­tion against the Sovi­ets in Hun­gary. This Octo­ber marks the 50th anniver­sary of that failed rev­o­lu­tion. I did a paper on the rev­o­lu­tion when I was in col­lege. I find it ironic that as we approach the […]

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A Rose By Any Other Name …

August 12, 2006

I enjoy pho­tog­ra­phy. I find that I think more about tak­ing pic­tures or how to cap­ture some­thing as I am liv­ing life. My wife bought her­self these flow­ers (I wish I could say I did it) and I thought they would make a good sub­ject to try some pho­tos. You can see my favorites of […]

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Is Tagging Right for Your Site?

July 31, 2006

(This post is also fea­tured on eMi­nistry Notes.) Last week, I par­tic­i­pated in a vir­tual sem­i­nar done by Josh Porter of UIE. The topic was “is tag­ging right for your site?” Tag­ging is part of Web 2.0. Tags are like key­words but the big dif­fer­ence is that they are deter­mined by the user not the […]

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Class in Session

July 13, 2006

FYI, here is a list of the classes I am tak­ing or have taken this sum­mer: Bib­li­cal Inter­pre­ta­tion — I liked the lec­ture and work­shop aspect of this class.  We were taught some new ideas about inter­pret­ing Scrip­ture in light of the whole redemp­tive story of the Bible.  It is just another way to consider […]

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I Miss the Web World

July 13, 2006

Although I am enjoy­ing tak­ing the­ol­ogy and classes in Bib­li­cal stud­ies, I am really miss­ing work­ing with Web sites and the such.  Web devel­op­ment is the world I live in and I miss it right now as I am engaged in inten­sive classes.  I am look­ing for­ward to resum­ing my work with Web in a […]

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Like Being a Student Again

July 3, 2006

Right now, I am in the midst of tak­ing four weeks of inten­sive classes through a sum­mer pro­gram with Cam­pus Cru­sade for Christ. It is keep­ing me busy but I enjoy being a stu­dent again. One of the things that I have enjoyed is being on the cam­pus of Rollins Col­lege. I like the trees […]

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Pictures I Would Take if I Had a Camera

June 6, 2006

Here is a list of pic­tures I would take if I had a cam­era right now while vis­it­ing Tulsa McDonald’s sign at 91st and Memo­r­ial — it has a nos­tal­gic look to it with “Ham­burger” char­ac­ter (the head is a bun and it has arms and legs) Patri­otic Pen­guin on Parade near 61st and Memo­r­ial “Recess” statue […]

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I Don’t Like Slow Internet

June 6, 2006

I have been trav­el­ing for the past two weeks in Arkansas and Okla­homa.  When I got to Arkansas, I was using dial-up to con­nect to the Inter­net from my mother-in-law’s house.  I knew that it was going to be a lit­tle irratat­ing because I have got­ten use to using broad­band at home and hav­ing a […]

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NOOMA

June 6, 2006

One of my min­istry part­ners here in Tulsa intro­duced me to NOOMA, short films that teach spir­i­tual mes­sages. I thought they were really well done. Pas­tor Rob Bell shares spir­i­tual insights through these short films. But a lot of the mes­sage is in what is going on around him in the back­ground of the film. […]

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Penguins on Parade

June 6, 2006

This week, I am in Tulsa, Okla­homa. I am in the area vis­it­ing with peo­ple who sup­port our min­istry with Cam­pus Cru­sade for Christ. It has been great to see peo­ple again and I have enjoyed being back in Tulsa. My wife and I lived here for 1 1/2 years when we first got married. […]

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Hungarians the least happy people

May 12, 2006

A sur­vey released in Octo­ber by mar­ket research com­pany GfK NOP found that Hun­gar­i­ans are the least happy peo­ple. This only serves to sup­port what I have observed in over 16 years of min­istry involve­ment in Hun­gary. The sur­vey sites some of these fac­tors as rea­sons why Hun­gar­i­ans are not happy: the worst tobacco death rate […]

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Empowering Users to Improve Their Life

May 5, 2006

I have been chal­lenged recently to think back­wards to con­sider “what prob­lem is a web­site try­ing to solve?” Or what min­istry prob­lem is the site or Web app try­ing to solve? I think these are good ques­tions to con­sider and to go back to as you con­sider if your site is stay­ing on course or […]

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Web 2.0 and Group Therapy

April 19, 2006

Kathy Sierra writes about the dif­fer­ences between “an archi­tec­ture of par­tic­i­pa­tion” and “Shar­ing.” The first con­tributes con­tent that we can ben­e­fit from. The sec­ond seems to be shar­ing too much infor­ma­tion about our pri­vate lives. She pleas with those doing Web 2.0 to not let “har­ness­ing the col­lec­tive intel­li­gence” become a place for group therapy. […]

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Processing and Articulating Your Ideas

April 11, 2006

I am an inter­nal processer. I often process things from meet­ings and then think of things I would have liked to have said dur­ing the meet­ing sev­eral hours or days later. There also times that I have con­cerns or a sense of some­thing that I can’t quite artic­u­late at the moment but after pro­cess­ing it […]

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In Search of a Hungarian Train

April 1, 2006

I have now been to Hun­gary 6 times in the last 16 years. One “sou­venir” that I would like to have but have not yet acquired is a model or toy Hun­gar­ian train (like the real one pic­tured on the left). Dur­ing my first visit to Hun­gary in 1990, I rode trains up and down the […]

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Frustration with Firefox 1.5

February 5, 2006

I have expe­ri­enced some prob­lems with Fire­fox 1.5. I think this is the third time that I have tried it. I unin­stalled every­thing on my machine asso­ci­ated with a pre­vi­ous ver­sion of FF. I ran FF 1.5 almost all day and was hop­ing my prob­lems with it were behind me when I encoun­tered the problem […]

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Yesterday was “not a good day for science”

January 6, 2006

I did not have a good day with tech­nol­ogy yes­ter­day. I finally got back my dig­i­tal cam­era from Best Buy after a month and it was not fixed. How frus­trat­ing. My broad­band con­nec­tion was not work­ing last night (just got it installed in the morn­ing). And then I was almost locked out of my laptop […]

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