Having started learning HTML when I was 11 years old, this is something I quickly conquered and have full knowledge of HTML5 to a very high standard with full W3C, accessibility and SEO consideration
I've been working with CSS for many years now and am clued up with CSS3. I work in SASS using the usual features such as mixins, variables etc to my advantage. This is always compiled and minified for optimal page load speeds
I have predominantly worked with jQuery in particular for the last 3 years but also have a good grasp of vanilla Javascript to help enhance the usability and feel of my productions
One of my absolute favourite aspects of front-end development, I am very good at ensuring that a site looks brilliant at all screen sizes. Designing with a mobile-first mindset, I like to make the experience on a smartphone screen extremely intuitive and fun to use
I started with Bootstrap 3 and quickly learned its great advantages to help build a front-end very quickly to get it running and functional in minimal time with great standards and features - I have now started working with Bootstrap 4
Something that I have had my eye on for a while, I have now started learning these so that I can start using them in a commercial environment to build some great front-ends. I am currently using Laravel on a project at the moment (Ultimate Ear)
Having worked with PHP/MySQL for years, I understand it to a good degree and have worked with it all many times to help integrate the front-end with the back-end. I am very good with understanding it and manipulating code to my advantage
I have built a few sites on Wordpress over the years, unfortunately most are now offline or not quite worth showing, but can provide URLs to a couple if needed. I built them from scratch so am able to produce a custom design, tweak an existing one, and configure a full site
These are aspects that I take into great consideration in my code - I am aware of the usual aspects related to it and how to use them to produce code that is very well SEO-optimised and also optimal for accessibility such as on screen readers etc
The Adobe suite is something that I've been using for many years now, mainly Photoshop. Many a time I have designed website layouts and graphical assets, so I am well experienced in front-end design/wireframing and producing banners, logos, etc
With my great interest in human psychology, system usability and great user experience, this is a topic I first started studying and learning in university and is a very important factor to me which I have a significant amount of knowledge in
All developers rely on versioning systems and I first started working with SVN and moved on to GIT about 3 years ago. Sourcetree makes it very easy to use and helps ensure that strong progress is made without conflict in teams!