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Disastrous Flash demo heaps further embarrassment on Adobe
The Telegraph writes up the FlashCamp Seattle debacle with a typically divisive headline. Of all the publications that have ever mentioned my name, I think The Telegraph is probably the most widely-distributed. Crazy.
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Django Advent - Messages for the rest of us
My article on Django Advent, covering the new messages framework for Django 1.2.
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Web Dev App Reviews from the Pros – Part 1, Mac
Fuel Your Apps asked me, and several other web pros including Dan Rubin and Tim Van Damme, what apps we code in on OS X.
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Designers’Couch: Interview with Jeff Croft
Honored to have been interviewed by Designer’s Couch. Note that a few of the screenshots in the page are not actually my work at all. The version of the New York Review of Books is not the redesign I did for them, but rather the old version, and the Explore Steamboat design shown is a newer incarnation than the one I did.
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Cartoon of me on my deathbed in .net magazine
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World Tour 2008: Slides and commentary from my recent speaking engagements
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been honored and excited to speak at five events in three continents. It was a lot of work and a lot of travel, but worth every bit. I’ve had the time of my life, met a ton of great people, and share and gained more knowledge than I ever could have imagined.
I’ve always been happy to post the slides I present at conferences, and the recent talks are no exception. However, besides regular hour-long conference talks, I’ve done some full-day workshops that attendees pay quite a lot more for, and I’m not as comfortable posting those. I hope you understand.
With that out of the way, here’s an overview of my recent speaking engagements:
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Twitter Grader: Score Your Twitter Profile Power
Totally narcissistic, but fun. At the moment, I’m in a heated battle with The Onion, plus my friends Eric Meyer (@meyerweb), Ariel Waldman (@arielwaldman), and Aubrey Sabala (@aubs) for 200th most powerful person on Twitter. Eric I can take, but I won’t even try to compete with the ladies. :)
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Jeff Croft at Web Directions South: Elegant web typography
The great folks at Web Directions have posted the slides and audio from my recent typography talk in Sydney. Enjoy!
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WDS08: Workshop Day One: Django-a-gogo!
Michael McCorry came to my Web Directions workshop and was kind enough to write up a mini-review on his blog. Awesome. Thanks, Michael — was great meeting you!
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NETTUTS: Quick Fire With Jeff Croft
Jeffrey Way at NETTUTS asked me several rapid-fire questions in this fun interview.
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Pro CSS Techniques: by Jeff Croft, Ian Lloyd and Dan Rubin
Dan made us a site for Pro CSS Techniques. Sure, the book was released almost two years ago — but better late than never, right? The site Dan designed is beautiful. Ian and I couldn’t ask for a better promo for our book. Thanks, Rubin!
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My first Django pluggable: django-mailfriend
I finally got the balls to put some of my code out there. This simple app allows for “e-mail this to a friend” functionality for any instance of any model in your Django database. If it sounds interesting, check it out. I’d love feedback. As you know, I’m a designer first, coder second, so I’m quite sure some of my code is not as optimal as it could be. Hopefully someone will find it useful.
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Kevin Fricovsky: Callcast - Discussion with Jeff Croft
Kevin had me on for one of his patented “callcasts” yesterday, and has posted the result today. We talked about Django, Blue Flavor, new-fangled CSS properties, the great experimental web design of the late ‘90s, and more. It’s a short, laid-back conversation about a lot of different things, and it was definitely fun to do. Check it out!
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This Week in Django, Number 31
On this week’s podcast, Michael Trier and Brian Rosner talk a bit about my recent blog post, Top ten things that suck about Django, revisited. Their guests for the week are the developers of the popular Django e-commerce solution Satchmo, so they participate in the discussion, as well. I was happy to find that they considered the post a healthy discussion and found some value in it. The guys talk about several things mentioned in the post, including
Visitdjango.contrib.search, bulk delete in the admin interface, and the Python/Django install process. It’s a great listen, and not just for the part about my post. In general, if you’re not already listening to This Week in Django, you should be. These guys are doing a really, really great job. -
Build a Custom CMS with Django: My Carson Workshop
I’ll be heading over to London, my favorite city in the world (so far, anyway), to give a full-day workshop on building a custom CMS using Django. The workshop is being put on my the awesome folks at Carsonified, and you can register right now, if you like! Having been to several Carsonified events, I can say with a great deal of certainty that no one out there runs conferences and workshops more smoothly than this crew. Should be a great day.
I will definitely blog at more length about this event in the near future, but for now, head over to the Carson Workshops site and check it out.
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On Development: A New Design Pattern for the World Wide Web
Several months ago, I spoke at Refresh Seattle. Kenny Meyers came. We met and became friends. For months, he has bothered me to write a blog post on the topic I spoke about, rehashing my slides and presentation. For months, I ignored him. So, the bastard wrote the blog post himself.
And it’s good. Check it out.
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Look who's tweeting about no pants!
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Web’s Builders See Too Much Fuss Over Standards, Not Enough Innovation
Building on his post at Wired’s blog earlier this week, Scott Gilbertson now has a full article on the Wired front page, and again quotes me. I know it seems silly, but this is really cool to me. I’ve been reading Wired since its inception in the early 90s, so to be quoted on their website is pretty neat. And, they didn’t even get me using an F-bomb, this time. :)
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Wired.com: Is the Sacred Cow of Web Standards Headed for the Slaughterhouse?
A life long goal of mine is to be mentioned in Wired magazine. Today, I’m in their blog. That’s pretty close, right? It even calls me a “prominent developer.” But most importantly, it quotes me (accurately, even!), dropping an F-bomb. Classy, Jeff. Real classy.
Thanks, Wired. :)
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UMS Interviews: Jeff Croft
Gene at Unmatched Style recently interviewed me as part of a series of interview on that site. Check it out.
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Blog on Blog: Jeff Croft
I’m absolutely frightened as to what my linking this could do to the Google results for a search for my name, but…well, what the hell. My cousin, Brian Ford, has written a detailed profile of me. As you might expect, it’s totally fascinating. I have to say, though — I’m actually only 31 years old (Brian says I’m 32). Aside from this minor error, the piece is 100% accurate.
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Andy Clarke announces CSS Eleven
As I previously mentioned, I’m on the roster for Andy Clarke’s CSS Eleven, an international group of designers and developers working together to help the W3C’s CSS Working Group in delivering the tools that real-world designers need. I’ve been pretty pessimistic about the W3C lately, and I figured this was my change to try and do something about it, rather than just bitching all the time. I’m a bit cynical as to whether or not it’ll help, but we’ll never know if we don’t try — and like I said, I can’t really complain if I am unwilling to help.
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FocusMinded.com: 13 Questions with Jeff Croft
I guess this has been posted for a month now, but I didn’t realize it until now. It’s a short interview I did just after I moved to Seattle.
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Blue Flavor blog: The subtle difference between amateur and professional
In my first post over at the Blue Flavor blog, I discuss subtlety in design, and how it often separate great work from less effective design.
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I’ve joined the Vitamin advisory board.
Carson Systems’ Vitamin asked me to join their Advisory Board, and I jumped at the chance. I’ll be helping them “determine what’s important in the web industry today, what topics we should cover, which products we should review and who should be our next interview.” James Archer and Jina Bolton are also new board members.
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A List Apart: Frameworks for Designers, by me!
I wrote a shot piece for A List Apart on how the concept of frameworks can apply to designers, and specifically to CSS. We hear about frameworks all the time these days, but the concept is usually relegated to programmers doing JavaScript or server-side scripting. It turns out a good set of abstracted CSS idioms can also be very effective in speeding up your web design process.
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LOST-Theories.com: Quick Redesign
Nothing too special here and not a dramatic change, but I gave LOST-Theories.com a quick visual refresh tonight.
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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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An EPpy, a few LOST-Theories.com updates, tons of Django apps, and some dissapointing news about serestandar.es
It’s been a while since I’ve written a blog entry. The reason isn’t because I’ve had nothing to say about the web. Rather, I’ve been working on a couple of web-related articles for other publications that should see the light of day pretty soon. I’m promise I’ll get back to my regular blogging schedule soon. In the meantime, here’s a handful of updates on various things.
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2007 EPpy Winners Announced: BoomerGirl.com wins!
The EPpy awards were presented today, and our BoomerGirl.com (which I designed) won for Best Newspaper-Affiliated Web Site. Congrats to Cathy and the rest of the people involved in BoomerGirl.com. I’m pretty excited about this — gotta admit, having an EPpy award winner on the resume can’t hurt! :)
KUSports.com also won for Best Sports Web Site, a category which it has taken several times. I didn’t design the current iteration of it, but I’m set to redesign it later this year. Big shoes to fill.
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LJWorld.com: Learning outside the lines: Home schooling in Kansas
An online package I put together to go with a five-day print special report. Features stories, audio, video, slideshows, graphs, tables, etc. I love these big, in-depth multimedia reports.
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2007 EPpy Award Finalists
Our BoomerGirl.com and KUSports.com are nominated for the Editor and Publisher awards this year in the “Best Newspaper-Affiliated Web Site” and “Best Sports Web Site” categories.
This is very exciting to me personally, as I led the design on BoomerGirl.com and will be redesigning KUSports.com in the coming months. Big shoes to fill!
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Rob Goodlatte: Three Questions for Jeff Croft
The very talented Rob Goodlatte has recently started a series of short interviews of other designers on his blog, and was kind enough to have me participate. Click through to read my thoughts on programming vs. design, web standards education, and justifying design decisions.
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Twitterholic says I’m the 79th most popular Twit
…which is ironic, as I basically never use Twitter.
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AndyDenton.com: The top 55 web designers in the world
Andy think I’m the 25th best web designer in the world. I’m certain I don’t agree, but it’s nice of him to say, nonetheless. Thank you, Andy.
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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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