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It’s not the tool, it’s how you use it.
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 comment:
MoreIt’s an age old debate. Flash vs. HTML vs. CSS — blah, blah, blah. I’ll hammer a few more nails into this dead horse if it’ll help get the message across. It’s not about the tool, it’s about what you do with it. … The problem usually is that some designer or developer latches on to a certain technology (it could be CSS, it could be Flash, it could be anything) and thereafter tries to solve every and all problems with it. … Flash is a tool, CSS is a tool. If you are working on the Web you’d probably want to have both in your “toolbox” and know how and when to use each. … A carpenter doesn’t try to build everything with a hammer, does he? Why should a Web designer be any different?
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Pretty code.
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Pretty code.
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Launched.
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Launched.
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More minor refresh (entry page)
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More minor refresh (entry page)
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Minor refresh coming soon…
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Minor refresh coming soon…
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City pages — not just for photos anymore.
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February Updates
It’s been a while since my last entry, and while I don’t have anything really exciting to say, I do have a few little things to tell you all about — so it seemed like a good time for an update.
Read on for some news on a couple of speaking engagements for me, and a new feed available for your consumption at JeffCroft.com.
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I'm a single-column, fixed-width kinda guy.
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Geocoding My Life
Shortly after I first integrated my Flickr photos into jeffcroft.com (using Flickr’s awesome API), the photo sharing site added geocoding features, letting members tag photos with latitude and longitude information. Being someone who is obsessed with metadata, taxonomy, and the like, I quickly and meticulously geocoded my photos.
I wanted to incorporate that geo data in some interesting way here at jeffcroft.com, but the fact that I was (at the time) using dead-end code for this site (I planned to re-write it all) made me hold off until I’d finished the new version.
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Relaunch.
Let me get this out of the way upfront: It’s not done.
That having been said, I’ve relaunched my site on an entirely new codebase, and given it a slight design makeover, as well. As you may know if you follow this site and Django, the May reboot version of jeffcroft.com was based on a CMS I wrote when I was very new to Python and Django, using Django .91 — which is pre-magic-removal, in Django parlance.
I’m happy to say that all magic on jeffcroft.com has been removed.
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More blog layout…
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Playing with blog layouts…
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My (new) Django admin screen
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JeffCroft.com featured in Transcending CSS
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JeffCroft.com featured in Transcending CSS
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Random updates and thoughts
Well, it’s been a while since my last post, so I felt like I needed to say something here to make sure you all knew that book writing hasn’t made me suicidal (yet).
I have been quite busy, though — and frankly, haven’t had anything terribly interesting to say, thus the lack of posts. That having been said, there are a few things worth updating you all on, so I thought I’d combine them into one short post.
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So fresh and so clean (clean)!
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Nokia 770
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On “big footers”
For what it’s worth, I totally never thought of the second half of my page (which people keep calling my “big footer”) as a footer. It is, instead, the second half of my page. I had the exact same thing on my old design. The only difference is it now has a background color besides white.
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From del.icio.us to ma.gnolia
The process of managing the link roll on the front page of my site (now archived in the links section) is something I’ve changed several times.
On Thursday, the popular social bookmarking application ma.gnolia (designed by Zeldman and the boys at Happy Cog) added an open API to its tool belt. After about an hour of work Friday evening, I’ve switched my link roll system once again, from del.icio.us to ma.gnolia.
I now have ratings and screenshots of each link detail page (and I still have comments, of course). Here’s an example.
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2600 word entry + 100 comments = One Long Page.
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Subtraction: Arts & Croft’s
As if my ego needed stroking.
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Mike Davidson: Croftie Does The Django
Thanks, Mike. Coming from you, it means a lot.
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Rebirth.
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Boot it.
I’ve never rebooted before. Oh, I’ve redesigned, but never on May 1st, and never as part of an official Internet-wide ordeal. But this year, the timing seemed right and I was inspired enough to follow through, so here you have it.
I started working on this shortly after I got back from South By Southwest this year. That event was so inspiring, I knew I had to do something special. I had a million ideas and goals for this site, and most of them actually managed to make it in. I hope you all like it.
In this post, which happens to be my 400th, I offer an overview of some of those goals, what I’ve done to accomplish them, and other things I think are worth noting (because I made them, and I’m an egomaniac).
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Archival.
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Archival.
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Welcome to Dreamhost.
After my nightmare experience with 1&1 Internet, I have switched my site over to Dreamhost. Thanks to all of you who weighed in with your thoughts. If you’re seeing this post, you’re hitting the new server (meaning the DNS changes have propagated to your corner of the Internets).
I know there are some issues with the new server to be worked out. In particular, my search isn’t working. Be patient. :)
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Jeff Croft
I’m a digital product designer and developer in Seattle, WA. I currently work with nGen Works, and recently co-founded Lendle, a Kindle book sharing service.
Some of my clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Copious, The New York Review of Books, 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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