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.

Useability

CMS Light

July 2, 2009

I just fin­ished read­ing Chris Coyier’s arti­cle, The “Light” CMS trend. For those of you who don’t know, CMS stands for “con­tent man­age­ment sys­tem.” The con­tent is stored in a data­base and then served up on a page using a pre­de­fined tem­plate. The idea behind a CMS is to allow non-technical peo­ple the abil­ity to […]

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What can brown do for you?

November 9, 2007

I found this site through Design Melt­down, a gallery of design styles. This site is a good exam­ple of nice design which gets rec­og­nized by a gallery but has some usabil­ity issues when you actu­ally use it. First, You have to go to the top right to a “home” graphic to link back to the home […]

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Homepage the least important page on your site?

September 7, 2007

Last week, I was lis­ten­ing to a pod­cast from UIE on Home­page design. Jared Spool pointed out that the home­page is the least impor­tant page on your site. He believes the con­tent page is the most impor­tant because that is what the user is look­ing for. I see his wis­dom in this. Jared also talked about […]

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Helpful, Practical Feature from AirTran

August 22, 2007

Last week I booked a flight to Boston for Novem­ber using the Air­Tran. On the last page of the process, I found a fea­ture that I really liked. It gave me the option to import both my depart­ing flight and return­ing flight into Out­look. All the infor­ma­tion that I needed to cre­ate a cal­en­dar event […]

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Barbara Walters to Take a look at heaven

November 30, 2005

Last night, I watched Barbara’s look at her 10 most fas­ci­nat­ing peo­ple of 2005. At the end of the show, she pro­moted her next show which will be about heaven. The tag line is “Where is it? How do we get there?” I will be inter­ested to see if she comes up with an all-inclusive […]

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