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Jeff Siarto

http://twitter.com/jsiarto

Web and user experience designer, author, foodie.

Areas of Expertise:

  • web design
  • web standards
  • usability
  • courseware design
  • consulting
  • speaking
  • training

Biography

Jeff Siarto (Jeff Siarto) is a Web and User Experience designer living in Chicago. He is the founder of Siarto Labs, a small design company and co-founder of Loudpixel, a consultancy specializing in web development and online learning. Jeff was a student of the standards-based web design movement and writes articles and tutorials aimed at helping new web designers get started in the craft.

Books

Head First Web Design Head First Web Design
by Ethan Watrall , Jeff Siarto
December 2008
Print: $49.99
Ebook: $39.99

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Jeff's blog posts are hosted at:
http://siarto.com/

MIT Personas Project

August 19 2009

MIT Personas shows you how the Internet sees you Entering your name into the text field unleashes a natural language processing engine that profiles your online identity. When it’s finished, you end up with a colorful, visual representation of your Internet persona. To really understand it, you need to give it… read more

Design Patterns Flickr Collection

August 11 2009

Design patterns collection on Flickr A great collection of UI design patterns from Chris Messina. He also has a bunch of other collections for design inspiration in his Flickr photostream. read more

Free Fonts

August 07 2009

Free fonts A nice rundown of free typefaces you can use in your next design project. I really dig Tiresias Infopoint. read more

The White Balance Project

August 04 2009

The White Balance Project A collection of white balancing photos (most featuring yours truly) Allie took while working through her photography classes. read more

Custom Wordpress Taxonomies

July 31 2009

Custom taxonomies in Wordpress 2.8 Justin Tadlock explains how to modify your theme’s functions.php file to allow for custom taxonomies and enabling you to organize content like /people/jeff-siarto or /meat/porterhouse. Thanks to Brad for pointing this out. read more

301 Domain Redirects

July 27 2009

One of the most reused snippets of code I write is a bit of Apache configuration that I put in my .htaccess file to do Google-friendly 301 redirects. I typically use them for two purposes: First, to redirect traffic to my active site from other URLs that I own (sometimes… read more

New home?

July 26 2009

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Flickr

July 26 2009

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing. read more

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