The wonderful Paul Boag from Headscape interviewed me for the latest episode of Boagworld, almost certainly the best web design podcast on the planet. We talk about my “controversial” views ...
In my experience, most in-house web teams basically employ two types of people: designers and developers. Sure, some people call them different things, and there are definitely exceptions, but generally ...
In the past couple weeks, I’ve received a few e-mails from folks wondering why my blog has been less active than in the past. The answer is pretty simple ...
It’s no secret that I love to talk. If you don’t believe me, just ask my friends.
In particular, I like talking about the aspects of our industry ...
Wow, it’s hard to believe South By Southwest Interactive, the annual geek-fest for interactive professionals in Austin, TX, is only a few days away. We at Blue Flavor are ...
Your markup validator, whether it’s the one on the W3C site or one built into your favorite coding tool, is a debugging tool. It should be used as such ...
Last night, when I finished up the latest redesign of JeffCroft.com, I was tired of being on the computer and didn’t feel like writing much more than a ...
Yes, it’s a pretty drastic change for me. Yes, it only really works correcty in Safari (get over it). Yes, I did it pretty quickly. Yes, this redesign also ...
Today, I finally got around to reading the brouhaha over IE 8 and it’s version-targeting system. The last blog entry I read was Jeffrey Zeldman’s In defense of ...
The past couple of years, I’ve posted a sort of year-in-review entry here at JeffCroft.com in late December or early January. I was getting set to do that ...
The kind folks at CoffeeCup Software have posted audio of all the Webmaster Jam Session talks from this past September, including my talk on web typography, and the Web Design ...
Alex Russell, proprietor of the Dojo JavaScript library, has written a provocative new piece that is so incredibly spot-on, it’s scary. It’s an absolute must-read for any web ...
Today, as I was looking through the referrers for this site, I found a comment from my now-co-worker D. Keith Robinson, dated December 4th, 2003. A few excerpts from the ...
If you’ve been paying attention, you know that a simple discussion about CSS frameworks has turned into quite a bit of a mess. This is in large part due ...
Wow. Less than 24 hours after my last post, there have been nearly 100 comments posted, and I’ve seemingly managed to piss off half the Internet. It seems some ...
Over the past several weeks, I’ve been bombarded (in e-mail, in person, and over IM) with questions about CSS frameworks. I guess I wrote the book on this topic ...
I’ve been neglecting this blog over the past couple of week, so I thought I’d make a quick post to update everyone on some goings-on. I spoke at ...
During the design roundtable at Webmaster Jam Session last weekend, I mentioned that I think employers often value knowledge of tools too much when it comes to hiring web designers ...
Consider this post a feeler of sorts. There’s a topic I find interesting, but I can’t say I’ve yet fully fleshed out my thoughts on the matter ...
I spent the weekend in The Big D, attending and participating in Webmaster Jam Session 2007, the second annual conference put on by the great guy at CoffeeCup Software. How ...
A couple weeks ago, I posted an entry with the (admittedly sensationalist) title The myth of content and presentation separation. The point of the post was this: Come redesign time ...
Following Keith’s lead, I saw fit to drop a short post letting you all know about a handful of upcoming speaking engagements I’ll be participating in and events ...
The W3C acts, essentially, as the organization which creates the tools I work with to do my job as a web designer. They create the specifications I’m supposed to ...
One of the hallmark attributes of web standards-based design is the concept that proper use of semantic (X)HTML and CSS completely abstracts the presentation of a site from its ...