Designer at Blue Flavor, Speaker, Author
Greater Seattle Area
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- Web Designer and Developer at Jeff Croft
- Designer at Blue Flavor
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- Senior Designer at World Online (Lawrence Journal-World)
- Author at Web Standards Creativity, Friends of ED
- Author at Pro CSS Techniques, Apress
- Web/Graphic Designer at Kansas State University
- Co-Owner at Industry Standard Design Lab, LLC
- Web Designer at Washburn University
- Education
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- Washburn University
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Jeff Croft’s Summary
Right now I am content with my place in the world, but I'm always interested to meet people in web design and development, and always looking for interesting side projects.
Jeff Croft’s Specialties:
CSS, XHTML, graphic design, usability, user interaction, interaction design, user experience, typography
Jeff Croft’s Experience
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Web Designer and Developer
Jeff Croft
(Online Media industry)
August 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)
I do freelance and contract work, focusing on design for the web. Besides design, I do frontend web standards-based development as well as backend development using Python and Django.
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Designer
Blue Flavor
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
June 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)
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Senior Designer
World Online (Lawrence Journal-World)
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Online Media industry)
January 2006 — June 2007 (1 year 6 months)
I design web sites and application interfaces for World Online, an innovative and fast-paced property of The World Company. Some of the more notable and award-winning sites I am working on include lawrence.com, ljworld.com, and kusports.com. We call it "web development on journalisim deadlines" -- entire database-driven applications are often required in a matter of days or even hours.
World Online is also the place of origin for Django, the incredible Python-based rapid application development framework for the web which is now open-sourced and freely available. -
Author
Web Standards Creativity, Friends of ED
(Online Media industry)
January 2007 — April 2007 (4 months)
Co-authored Web Standards Creativity for Friends of ED, along with several of the top names in web design and development.
http://www.amazon.com/Web-Standards-Creativity-Innovations-Scripting/dp/1590598032 -
Author
Pro CSS Techniques, Apress
(Online Media industry)
March 2006 — November 2006 (9 months)
Co-authored Pro CSS Techniques along with Dan Rubin and Ian Lloyd, for Apress Publishing.
More info available here:
http://rubyurl.com/jEE (Amazon)
http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10187 (Apress)
Blurb taken from Apress site:
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Pro CSS Techniques is the ultimate CSS book for the modern web developer. If you’ve already got web design and development basics under your belt, but want to take your knowledge to the next level and unleash the full power of CSS in your web sites, then this is the book for you. It is a collection of proven CSS techniques that you can use daily to get the most out of the time you spend on your projects, from start to finish. -
Web/Graphic Designer
Kansas State University
(Educational Institution; Online Media industry)
August 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 6 months)
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Co-Owner
Industry Standard Design Lab, LLC
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
January 1999 — January 2006 (7 years 1 month)
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Web Designer
Washburn University
(Online Media industry)
2001 — 2004 (3 years )
Jeff Croft’s Education
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Washburn University
Music Education, Music Theory, Jazz History, Jazz Improvisation August 1994 — May 2000
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Jeff Croft’s Groups:
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Web Standards Design + Development
Jeff Croft’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
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