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.

Web as Platform

Blogging from Budapest

March 19, 2007

I have to say that I really love Web 2.0. This morn­ing I have been enjoy­ing the ben­e­fits of being able to check my email through an Out­look browser inter­face, read through my RSS sub­scrip­tions with Google Reader and book­mark­ing sev­eral sites using my del.icio.us account. Here I am on a friend’s com­puter in Budapest, […]

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GoogleBookSearch pdfs of out-of-copyright books

August 30, 2006

Google Books has added a new fea­ture. You can now down­load pdfs of out-of-copyright books. Not all books are avail­able yet. I look for­ward to search­ing to find what they have.

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Socialmeter — A Web marketing tool

August 22, 2006

Today I came across an inter­est­ing tool called “social­me­ter.” This tool scans sev­eral sites such as Google, del.icio.us, Tech­no­rati and a cou­ple of oth­ers to show you the pop­u­lar­ity of the url that you sup­ply. It gives you a report that are linked so that you can fur­ther explore on the dif­fer­ent sites like Technorati. […]

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Recommendations and Web 2.0

January 28, 2006

One of the blogs I reg­u­larly read is by Joshua Porter of UIE. I heard Joshua speak at the UI 10 con­fer­ence in Boston last fall. The fol­low­ing is what I found to be a very inter­est­ing insight into Web 2.0 that I had missed from an entry he made in Sep­tem­ber. I ran across […]

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You Send It and TinyUrl

January 26, 2006

There are two web­sites that I found out about recently that are great tools. You Send it — You can send up to 1GB files through this web­site. You upload it to their server and they send an email to your receipt with a link to down­load it from their server. You do not have to […]

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Articles I Have Found Helpful

December 16, 2005

Here are some arti­cles that I read recently. Pri­or­i­tiz­ing Design Time: A Long Tail Approach — this arti­cle by Joshua Porter got me think­ing about the impor­tance of design­ing sec­ondary pages. It also prompted me to con­sider how impor­tant a home­page really is. With Web 2.0, more vis­i­tors will prob­a­bly enter sites bypass­ing the homepage […]

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Web 2.0 Themes

October 20, 2005

Last week, I attended the User Inter­face Con­fer­ence in Boston. It was hosted by UIE. It was a really good con­fer­ence and I would like to go back next year if I can get the fund­ing. Joshua Porter did a sem­i­nar on Web 2.0 and here is my sum­mary. He talked about it using different […]

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Web 2.0 in my own words

September 26, 2005

I was chal­lenged to put Web 2.0 into an ele­va­tor pitch. This is my attempt to process what I have learned and try to pass it along. This was a help­ful exer­cise. From what I under­stand, a big part of Web 2.0 is about mak­ing infor­ma­tion acces­si­ble. I have heard the term “con­tent silo” kicked […]

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What is AJAX?

September 8, 2005

I have been see­ing the term “Ajax” a lot in dis­cus­sions about Web 2.0. This arti­cle from User Inter­face Engi­neer­ing is a good place to start in under­stand­ing what Ajax is.

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The Future of the Internet?

April 14, 2005

I came across a thought pro­vok­ing Flash pre­sen­ta­tion this morn­ing. It is an 8 minute pre­sen­ta­tion and it pre­dicts the next 10 years on the Inter­net by look­ing back at the pre­vi­ous 10 years. My friend Keith Seabourn blogged in response to the impli­ca­tion for the future. I think it is impor­tant for the church […]

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