Jeff Croft

I’m a digital product designer and developer in Seattle, WA. I currently work with Simply Measured, and recently co-founded Lendle, a Kindle book sharing service.

Some of my past clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Copious, The New York Review of Books, Django, The Lawrence Journal-World, and the University of Washington.

I’ve authored two books on web and interactive design and spoken at dozens of conferences around the world.

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  • Link // 07.23.2008 // 10:41 AM // 2 Comments

    Digital 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.

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  • Link // 07.23.2008 // 10:11 AM // 0 Comments

    Digital 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.

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  • Link // 10.17.2007 // 10:35 PM // 1 Comment

    Digital Web: jQuery Crash Course

    Although I’ve been using YUI a lot lately, I have definitely felt tempted by jQuery. I think I’m going to give it a shot and see what I think — Nathan Smith’s crash course looks like a great place to start.

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  • Link // 09.18.2007 // 12:58 PM // 0 Comments

    Andy Budd: Contract Killers

    Andy writes about client contracts and how to keep both sides of them happy over at Digital Web. This piece definitely hits on a lot of the same experiences we’ve had at Blue Flavor, even in the short time I’ve been here. Good stuff.

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  • Link // 05.29.2007 // 8:19 AM // 2 Comments

    Digital Web: Creative Use of PNG Transparency in Web Design

    Digital Web Magazine has published my chapter from Web Standards Creativity, which is all about PNG images and interesting ways to take advantage of their unique alpha channel transparency. If you like this article, be sure to grab the book, which has similar types of content in each chapter, from a whose host of great web designers.

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  • Link // 04.24.2007 // 4:33 PM // 0 Comments

    Dstin Diaz: Seven JavaScript Techniques You Should Be Using Today

    Dustin has several good techniques related to JavaScript and the DOM in a new article at Digital Web. Check it out.

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  • Link // 04.24.2007 // 2:53 PM // 0 Comments

    Garrett Dimon: Coding for Content

    Garrett covers a “markup framework” he created for marking up the figures in his blog posts. His markup is very similar, in many ways, to what I do here, and what we do on our Ellington-powered news sites. Garrett’s is a bit cleaner than mine, though — I may be stealing some of these ideas. :)

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  • Link // 03.20.2007 // 6:06 PM // 0 Comments

    Digital Web: Redesigning the ExpressionEngine Site

    Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain covers his design process in great detail as he helps redesign the ExpressionEngine site for Ellis Labs. This great piece is part of The Working Designer, which looks to be a great news series from Digital Web. Stay tuned — I’m slated to write one of these articles myself. :)

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  • Link // 01.30.2007 // 4:55 PM // 0 Comments

    Where Did My Beautiful Internet Go?

    A great piece by Sean Madden on the decline of visual design on the web. I admit to having a hard time with this topic. I regularly bemoan the general ugliness of the Internets, but I also am a fan of some of the things that have gotten us there (RSS, an emphasis on accessibility and usability — although I think that’s gone overboard at times — and so on). No doubt, though, the Internet isn’t as visually interesting a place as it was a few years ago, and that’s a real bummer. I really hope we get back to more creative and interesting visual design play online once we get over the culture of accessibility and the web standards movement.

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  • Link // 01.23.2007 // 8:20 PM // 0 Comments

    Interview with Doug Bowman

    Bowman has been out of the public eye a lot in the past yea and a half or so, and it’s definitely nice to see he’s still going strong and pushing our medium. A nice interview from one of the standards movement’s most significant figures, historically speaking.

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  • Link // 01.10.2007 // 5:02 PM // 0 Comments

    Garrett Dimon: Markup as a Craft

    Garrett has a very nice piece at Digital Web on semantic (X)HTML markup.

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  • Link // 11.21.2006 // 2:21 AM // 0 Comments

    Digital Web Magazine publishes “CSS Styling for Print and Other Media,” from Pro CSS Techniques

    Digital Web Magazine has posted an except from our upcoming book Pro CSS Techniques. This chapter, on using CSS for mediums other than the screen, was written by Ian Lloyd. Thanks to Nick, Carolyn, and everyone at Digital Web for publishing this!

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