about me
I'm just a front-ender who makes his work a general interest. The old line of 'thats cool, how did they do that!?' is one that visits me on a daily basis.
I've worked for over 10 years as a graphic designer with some of Dublin's best design houses, learning from some of the best creatives at that time. My interest in the web grew as did its popularity, so the process of moving into web design and then front end development was an exciting transition to make. But, what was behind the design that made that 'click!?'... time to investigate... so i did, and have been in the front end development space for over 7 years professionally with over 4 years developing in Australia to date, creating fully responsive websites while expanding my knowledge into a wider tech stack.
what i do
Currently I design and build sites in Wordpress. I design the PSD, I convert it to HTML / SASS and make into a custom Wordpress theme so its as dynamic as possible for easy access for the client and, ease of use to edit the existing content on the finished site. This is done using some of the PHP codex Wordpress provides (with a twist), some jQuery, CSS3 animations and Greensock for added effect.
I use Photoshop / Sketch as my design tools. Moqups for wireframes, Sublime Text as my code editor, CodeKit as a compiler, Source Tree for updating or branching, Bitbucket for backups and I use my own hosting as a staging server for subdomains along with Browserstack for testing desktop and mobile devices.
Wordpress Themes
HTML5 / CSS3
Javascript
React
Case Studies
This is a brief indication of some of the projects I've worked on to date. Some are complete and some are not. Most are linked to my testing server to show what I can produce and what my capabilities are. Also as time goes on, sites change, so I want to keep what I've worked on in one place in case the existing sites have been edited or altered beyond my control. They indicate how I think and the results I can achieve.
