Comments for Jeff Bridgforth :: Web designer and front end developer in Orlando, Florida

Comment on Front-End Design Conference 2011 by Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:11:31 +0000

Thanks Dan. I was so excited when I saw the stickers. I knew right away I wanted to use them in my sketch notes.

Comment on Front-End Design Conference 2011 by Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:10:21 +0000

Thanks Scott. Glad you found the notes helpful. I enjoyed meeting you at the conference. Best of luck with your company and other career positions you told me you were considering.

Comment on Front-End Design Conference 2011 by Scott McDermott

Scott McDermott — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:21:20 +0000

Wow. Great recap! I was gonna share my notes with some people who couldn’t make it, but I think I’ll use yours instead. Lol.

Great getting to meet you at the conference too!

Comment on Front-End Design Conference 2011 by Ismael Burciaga

Ismael Burciaga — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:42:26 +0000

This is an awesome post. I totally agree with everything you said about the conference. I think my favorite session was Responsive Web Design. I now want to make every site responsive. It was also great meeting you.

Comment on Front-End Design Conference 2011 by James Brown

James Brown — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:33:24 +0000

GREAT write up!

Comment on Front-End Design Conference 2011 by Niki Brown

Niki Brown — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:38:07 +0000

Good review of the conference! I spoke there last year and wish I could have been there this year!

Comment on Front-End Design Conference 2011 by Dan Denney

Dan Denney — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:28:56 +0000

One more thing. It’s soooo awesome how you combined your sketch notes with the stickers.

Comment on Front-End Design Conference 2011 by Dan Denney

Dan Denney — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:27:55 +0000

I can’t thank you enough for the time that you put into this. I definitely know how hard it is to set aside the time to write post-conference posts.

I truly appreciate getting to see how this event impacts the individual people that attend. Throughout the experience, I only get a bird’s-eye view. So, thank you very much!

As far as relating to the day as a front-end person myself, we’re excited about the same things. Responsive web design is my new crush and there are principles from all of the other talks that can be used to help deliver responsive sites to a wide audience.

This is going to be an exciting year!

Comment on Cookies from New York by Terry

Terry — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 12:38:28 +0000

Hey maybe you can send him some sunscreen? Or a postcard of FL?

Comment on Cookies from New York by Van

Van — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 13:59:00 +0000

Thanks again for this man. It was my pleasure and fun! Double W00T for social media!

Comment on Video about motivation in your work by Terry

Terry — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:57:55 +0000

This is actually a TED talk. I first watched the TED video on this last year and thought it was great.
Link: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dan_pink_on_motivation.html

It’s good to see this was put to motion. Very thought provoking especially from the HR perspective.

Comment on New approaches to projects and clients by Matt McFadden

Matt McFadden — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:01:32 +0000

Good thoughts, we obviously concur. Thanks for the mention Jeff.

Comment on iPad and the future of the Web by dennis

dennis — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:48:26 +0000

You raise some great points. I am aligned to your thinking that sites should consider the spectrum of devices that will be used to view your content. If predictions come true more than 60% internet viewing will be from mobile devices. So it stands to reason you have to weight that reality when preparing content to be shared.

Comment on The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly of Customer Experience by Jason Weaver

Jason Weaver — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:37:38 +0000

Wrapping a elements around H3 and p or embedded definition lists within lists etc. will ultimately allow for larger click areas. Resulting in a better user experience. Designers have already been using this technique. But with HTML5 it validates.

Comment on Adventures in sIFR by Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:04:02 +0000

I am aware of Cufon but I have not yet used it. The drawback of Cufon in my implementation was that I needed to embed a file in Flash so I could use it. It was not a free font and from what I understand, you need to link to a free font.

Comment on Adventures in sIFR by Bill

Bill — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:35:07 +0000

I guess you’ve discovered CUFON by now seeing as this post was written over a year ago.

It’s way easier to implement than sIFR:
http://wiki.github.com/sorccu/cufon/about

Comment on The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly of Customer Experience by Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:11:26 +0000

Jason,

Could you give a little more explanation to how this will help the user experience.

Comment on The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly of Customer Experience by Jason Weaver

Jason Weaver — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:24:25 +0000

Man I hate it when you pay at the pump and then you are prompted to go inside to pay the cashier. Not cool.

I think the ability to wrap a elements around block content in HTML5 will help us make better user experiences.

Comment on Web designer—n. by Jason Weaver

Jason Weaver — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:17:19 +0000

I totally agree with you Jeff. I myself came into Web design learning HTML and CSS and I’m confused when people call themselves web designers but have no idea how to code. To me, it just goes together. The more you understand about “the how”, the more you’re able to create a great web experience for your users.

I often work at a co-working office in downtown Bryan, Texas and I’ll overhear graphic designers having a difficult time conveying their original message to a developer. Think of the time wasted. I don’t see how people work like that.

Comment on What Informs Your Design? by Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:30:16 +0000

I found out from Andy Rutledge that Viget blog also did a write up on his article, http://www.viget.com/inspire/one-percent-inspiration/

Comment on CMS Light by Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:34:24 +0000

Mac,

Security is definitely a concern with WordPress. But like anything, you need to know how to use the tool and there are ways of hardening WordPress that make it more secure.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress is a good article on how to harden the install. There is also a plugin, http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-security-scan/ that is helpful for making WP more secure.

I have several best practices in place to help minimize the threat.

Comment on CMS Light by Mac

Mac — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:17:47 +0000

WordPress is really powerful and has so many useful plugins, but I feel like it becomes the target of many bot scripts and exploit attempts since it’s so widely used. Perch is cheap and equally as powerful based on the demo on grabaperch.com, its probably a good choice. just my 2 cents

–Mac

Comment on Texture, Color, and Detail by Jonathan Longnecker

Jonathan Longnecker — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:14:21 +0000

Hey Jeff, thanks for the kind words; we’re really excited about this one too. Keep up the good work!

Comment on A Well-Done Critique by Jeff Bridgforth

Jeff Bridgforth — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:19:48 +0000

Terry,

Thanks for the feedback. The thought I was trying to capture is that as a design owner, I need to approach critique by my team as something that is trying to improve upon the design and that will help the team to grow in our design understanding. I think too often we do not have that respect for our peers and recognize that their critique is meant to be helpful.

That said, we may not always agree but I think it is important to come with an attitude that has respect for our peers and not see them as “the enemy.” They are for me and not against me.

Comment on A Well-Done Critique by Terry

Terry — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:10:35 +0000

This post rocks! Excellent post and is something every designer should always bear in mind when even looking at another’s work.

“Criticizing Photographs” by Terry Barrett looks a criticizing design more in depth.

I’m not sure if I would have added that additional sentence under “respect”. It really doesn’t seem to follow along with the paragraph it’s in.
1) If someone isn’t a designer and is criticizing do they get the same respect? Is it the same kind of respect you’d give a designer if there is a difference? Maybe Jared made a point of not being specific?
2)Someones “intent” can come regardless on whether they think the artist/design is ready for it or not. I experience this often.

Keep up the thoughtful post Jeff. Good job.