It has meant so much to me to be back in Hungary. I am here for four days with my son, who recently finished his semester of study abroad in Barcelona. I first came to Hungary in 1990 as a college student. I spent the summer here with other American students as part of a […] The … | Continue reading
Articles I read Favorite Reads of the Week What I watched Papyrus 2 from SNL (YouTube) – A must-watch sequel to Ryan Gosling’s infamous Papyrus skit. Books I am reading Walking – 16.29 miles What I played The post Weeknotes 24:16 appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth. | Continue reading
Articles I read Favorite reads of the week What I watched How A Small Team of Developers Created React at Facebook | React.js: The Documentary (YouTube)I did not know the story behind React. I enjoyed hearing how it came about and from those who worked on it. Books I am reading W … | Continue reading
Men’s Retreat This past weekend, I attended a men’s retreat with about 20 other men from my church. We met at the Fort Bluff Camp and Retreat Center just outside of Dayton, TN. As a new member of the church, it was a great opportunity for me to meet other men in the church and [… … | Continue reading
Affinity acquired by Canva–the end of perpetual pricing? The big news of the week was that Affinity was acquired by Canva. I have been using several Affinity products for the past 4 years and like many other people were concerned about what this might mean to the future of the pr … | Continue reading
It was four years ago today that I wrote my very first weeknote post after returning from a company retreat. I am grateful that I started this practice of sharing different things about my work week and my personal life. The process has helped me become a better and more discipli … | Continue reading
Highlights New apps I am working this year to improve my physical health and also my financial health. I started using Strava at the beginning of the week to track my daily walks. I am trying to walk each day to get in better shape as I prepare for my trip to Europe at the […] Th … | Continue reading
A redesign for Popular Photography (PopPhoto.com) was my first major project with the Bonnier Corporation. The project launched thirteen years ago today (March 15, 2011). The site was built in Drupal and I worked with 2 remote developers, Dave Myburgh and Cody Craven. My team of … | Continue reading
I was looking through the Inspirational Websites Roundup from codrops earlier today. I liked this animation on the Vendredi Society site. One section will pin to the top of the viewport and begin to scale down and fade out as another section layers over the first section as it sc … | Continue reading
In December, I shared my accessibility journey. I hoped that my story might encourage other developers to take accessibility more seriously in their work. I recently contacted David Kennedy who curates the Accessibility Weekly newsletter. I thought it might be of interest to the … | Continue reading
Thirty-five years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal at CERN that would later become the World Wide Web. A little over two years ago, I listened to the audiobook version of Berners-Lee’s book, Weaving the Web. The book tells the story of the Web’s origins. The audiob … | Continue reading
Work Highlights Digital gardening In January, I did a site refresh which included a new color scheme, fluid typography and spacing, new typefaces, and a light and dark mode. Since then, I have added several new pages to the site (blogroll and uses) and continued to write new cont … | Continue reading
Last week, Chris Coyier shared a post about his March 2022 sale of CSS Tricks to Digital Ocean and where things are at today. Since the time of sale, Digital Ocean has abandoned CSS Tricks with the last post being on April 12, 2023. Chris shares a bit of the story of the sale and … | Continue reading
Life has felt incredibly full these days. There are so many things to take care of and not enough time each week to address everything I would like to do. I took a big step in addressing an area of growth in my life this week and my taxes are ready to be filed. I […] The post Wee … | Continue reading
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Work highlights Super Bowl Champions back-to-back As a Chiefs fan, I was on edge all night watching the Super Bowl. Early on, the game felt eerily similar to the time the Chiefs lost to the Buccaneers in Super Bowl 55. The offense struggled to move the ball. But the defense kept … | Continue reading
I have been working from home for 10 years now. It has worked out well for me and been well suited for my life situation. There are times when I miss the personal interactions that come with working in an office with other people but all and all, remote working has agreed with me … | Continue reading
Shop Talk Show, a weekly podcast with Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert, just recently hit a big milestone. They released Show #600 at the end of January. I listened to the episode on Saturday while driving to Georgia to pick up my daughter from a friend’s house. In this episode, they … | Continue reading
Badge Generator I spent a good chunk during the first part of the week working on a badge generator for one of our clients. The tool allows a user to upload an image of themselves to make a social media badge they can download and post on their social media. The badge generator f … | Continue reading
What a crazy game. I think I might have lost several years off of my life watching the Super Bowl last night. I was on edge most of the night. But I will say that the Chiefs know how to make the game exciting. All three of their wins over the last five years have […] The post Giv … | Continue reading
Super Bowl Sunday is almost upon us and for the fourth time in 5 years, the Chiefs are playing in the big game. In a crazy year where most people counted them out, Mahomes and company brought out the magic in the playoffs and now have the opportunity to win back-to-back champions … | Continue reading
What I wrote I had quite a busy week with writing. As I mentioned in my reflection about my December writing challenge, writing has begotten more writing. I have found it easier to sit down and get the ideas out of my head. I have been more motivated to do the hard work of bringi … | Continue reading
When I first started building websites back in the late ’90s, we were using nested tables to achieve our layout. The semantics of HTML elements were not a thing. When I moved away from using tags and started using and other HTML elements, the semantics of HTML were not somethin … | Continue reading
Yesterday I was running an errand to deposit some checks into the bank. As I was driving down Hixson Pike, my attention was drawn to the car in front of me that had the license plate, “ACP8PCT.” I believe that it was a personalized plate but I had trouble working out what it was … | Continue reading
In 2022, LGND was contracted to design and build a stand-alone site for the Kauffman Foundation‘s Real World Learning initiative. The project was very dear to my heart for several reasons. The Kauffman Foundation is named after Ewing Kauffman, who was the owner of the Kansas City … | Continue reading
Practice We learned things best when we build something and get to play around. It is why Chris Coyier used to say all the time on Shop Talk Show, “just build websites.” I have a subscription to the Creative Coding Club. Carl has encouraged us to build things and not just watch t … | Continue reading
I was reading Matthias Ott’s newsletter, Own Your Web this morning. He commented on the number of articles recently decrying that “blogging is dead” or “where have all the personal websites gone.” Like Matthias, I have felt like the Indie Web is having a moment and a comeback. I … | Continue reading
This came up in my Facebook memories this morning. I had mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I had started reading Hardboiled Web Design in January 2011. A couple of weeks after I started reading it, I had an opportunity to apply what I was learning. I had started working on a f … | Continue reading
People and Blogs is an ongoing series by Manuel Moreale where he asks people to talk about themselves and their blogs. I just started reading the series a couple of months ago. I thought it would be fun to share a little bit about myself by using his interview questions. Can you … | Continue reading
I recently came across Mandy Brown’s work coaching site, everything changes. It is a beautiful site. The colors are great. The type is really nice. The subtle animation on the homepage of the petals adds a nice touch to the design. I enjoyed the experience of being on this site. … | Continue reading
Snow Day Snow days are rare in Chattanooga so we enjoy them when they happen. We (I) even write blog posts about them. Fresh new look I launched a refresh to the site design on Tuesday. It went quickly from idea to reality–less than two weeks. I wrote about the “refresh” and some … | Continue reading
Work Personal Travel Coding Writing Reading/Books Entertainment The post 2023 by the numbers appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth :: Front-end developer in Chattanooga, Tennessee. | Continue reading
Last week, I was gifted a book by a teammate. The Jayhawk is the story behind the beloved mascot of KU (The University of Kansas). I had seen the book mentioned in a recent alumni newsletter and was interested. I added it to my wishlist that I provided for our Secret Santa gift e … | Continue reading
I have been rereading Eric Gorges’ book, A Craftsman’s Legacy, this month. (BTW, it is on sale for Kindle for $2.99 today if you happen to read this the day I posted.) I have wanted to read a biography of a graphic designer or craftsman. I had hoped to read something new but I ha … | Continue reading
HTML web components are getting a lot of attention right now. I have collected several articles about them in Pocket over the past month. I also heard Chris and Dave discuss them on a recent Shop Talk Show as I traveled home from Kentucky on Saturday. I have read about web compon … | Continue reading
Update: Post each day challenge As I mentioned last week, I decided to take up the challenge to post each day on this site for a month. So far, I have been able to meet the challenge. A lighter work load early in the week helped me to be able to cover those days. I […] The post W … | Continue reading
As I was looking at my memories on Facebook tonight (Friday night), I had a memory from 11 years ago when we first visited Chattanooga. We had driven up from Orlando that day and stayed at the SpringHill Suites. We arrived just in time to see part of a boat parade on the river an … | Continue reading
On Friday, I watched a video by Zoran Jambor of CSS Weekly. The video is entitled CSS4 is Coming, (Not Clickbait). The video caught my eye a couple of weeks ago when I skimmed through the CSS Weekly newsletter but I did not have a chance to watch it at the time. Kevin Powell had … | Continue reading
Articles I read What I watched True parallax with CSS-only is now possible (Kevin Powell) – I started watching this video last week and didn’t finish it. Intriguing idea and I may try to get back and finish watching the video. The problem with mobile-first CSS (Kevin Powell) – I … | Continue reading
Rest As I mentioned in my last post, I asked my leadership to take off the week after recovery from a medical scare at the end of the previous week. I am so grateful for the unlimited PTO policy that LGND put into place almost two years ago. It gave me the freedom to take […] The … | Continue reading
According to plan The goal of the week was to get the new LGND site launch ready. I had a plan and started executing that plan on Monday. I started by reworking on animation on the homepage on Monday. There were several elements of the animation that were just not working so I we … | Continue reading
Principal Media Catalog My workload continued to be lighter this week. I was able to come back to the Principal Media catalog project now that we have content for the catalog. I started adding films to the WordPress database the previous week and a teammate pitched in and took so … | Continue reading