JeffCroft.com: Homepage

Status // 07.24.2008 // 10:33 PM // 0 Comments

Walking around Lawrence, sort of feels like I never left. Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road?

Link // 07.24.2008 // 10:28 PM // 0 CommentsWired Internet Celebrity Meter

I totally kicked Julia Allison’s ass! And I don’t even have a MySpace! Lip dubbing will get you nowhere!

(Teasing, of course.) Visit site »

Status // 07.24.2008 // 11:23 AM // 0 Comments

If you Twitter how many followers you now have since Twitter’s missing followers bug, you may be a douchebag.

Link // 07.24.2008 // 10:58 AM // 0 CommentsFuture of Web Design New York 2008

Looks like the team at Carsonified has another great event planned. I had a blast at last year’s FOWD NYC. I wish I could go this year, but it doesn’t look like it’ll happen. You should definitely go, though. Visit site »

Status // 07.24.2008 // 9:13 AM // 0 Comments

What isn’t better with a fried egg on top?

Link // 07.23.2008 // 7:56 PM // 2 CommentsBlue Flavor: How We Decide What To Charge You

As a follow up to her post earlier this week, Tiff has a new blog post that details how we estimate potential projects. It also goes hand-in-hand with a pricing guide page that Keith posted today. Visit site »

Link // 07.23.2008 // 10:41 AM // 0 CommentsDigital Web: Photoshop vs Fireworks

Nathan Smith gets input from several buddies of mine, including Anton Peck, Jared Christensen, Patrick Haney, and Jenna Marino, on their preference for either Fireworks or Photoshop. The comments are definitely an interesting read, so I encourage you to check it out. I think it’s important to keep some perspective, though: the only people who really care whether you use Fireworks or Photoshop are other designers. Clients couldn’t care less. Debating the pros and cons can be fun for us design nerds, but ultimately it doesn’t really matter what you use — keep that in mind. Visit site »

Link // 07.23.2008 // 10:11 AM // 2 CommentsDigital Web: Smart CSS Ain’t Always Sexy CSS

Suddenly it seems like respected web designers everywhere are starting to catch on to what I’ve been saying for a couple years now: established standards and best practices are great, but they are simply a means to an end, and we should always challenge them in cases where it seems like a different means to the same end might be more effective. “Perfect” can be, at times, the enemy of “good”.

I don’t necessarily agree with everything in Martin’s article, but I’m glad to see other big names beginning to jump on the pragmatic, but still standards-oriented, approach. Visit site »

Photo favorite // 07.22.2008 // 11:14 PM // by dotsara // 2 Comments

Intersected

Intersected by dotsara

Link // 07.22.2008 // 9 PM // 3 CommentsReport: Google talks $200,000,000 acquisition of Digg

If this is accurate, I can only say a big congrats to all my awesome friends at Digg. You guys totally deserve it. Woohoo! Visit site »

Link // 07.22.2008 // 3 PM // 1 CommentThe Walker House in Sydney, Australia

Quite possibly the most beautiful house I’ve ever seen. Want. (But why are there no photos of the kitchen?!) Visit site »

Link // 07.22.2008 // 1:10 PM // 0 CommentsBaby’s First Internet

Teach your newborn how to survive on the Internet. Hilarious. Visit site »

Complete tumblelog »

JeffCroft.com

07.24.2008 // 10:05 AM // 2 Comments // KCMO Apartment Fall speaking schedule

Recent blog entries