Jack McDowell

Jack McDowell

Portland, OR
Open to Work

My goal in life is to continue making a positive difference in the world.

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Skills & Experience

  • Company

    USA Hispanic Press

  • Job Title

    Editor

  • Spoken Languages

    • English
    • Spanish

493 Achievements

  • An Overview of Hooks in WordPress
  • How to Install WordPress on Your Computer
  • Getting Familiar with HTML and CSS
  • Finding the Data You Want
  • Add Bootstrap Components to WordPress Theme
  • Create Bootstrap Styled Theme Templates
  • Setup a Bootstrap Theme
  • A Template Hierarchy Review
  • Media Templates in WordPress
  • Custom Post Type Templates
  • Archive Templates in WordPress
  • Page and Post Templates in WordPress
  • Homepage Templates in WordPress
  • Core WordPress Theme Files
  • Test Doubles
  • More Advanced PHP for WordPress
  • PHP Basics for WordPress
  • Introduction to PHP for WordPress
  • Prepare and Plan
  • Getting Data from a Database
  • Data, Databases and SQL
  • Go Further With Mongo
  • Working With Collections
  • Understanding MongoDB
  • Getting Started with MongoDB
  • Acceptance Tests
  • Organizing your Tests
  • Creating Your Tests
  • Tools for Testers
  • How To Test Our Code
  • Relating Models
  • Laravel CRUD
  • Validation & Flash Messages
  • Laravel Forms
  • Learning activity: Experience Sampling
  • Finding participants for your learning activity
  • Solving an Important Problem
  • Laravel & Databases
  • Laravel Controllers
  • Laravel Project Setup
  • Slices
  • Customizing Drupal
  • Modules and Themes
  • Site Building with the Drupal Interface
  • Learn About Drupal
  • Error Handling
  • Creating Distributable OOP Packages
  • Autoloading and Composer
  • Databases and International Concerns
  • Starting Right with PHP Best Practices
  • Laravel Getting Started
  • Lists Redux
  • Pick a Number! Any Number!
  • Putting the "Fun" Back in "Functions"
  • Shopping List
  • Things That Count
  • Ins & Outs
  • Adding State
  • Local Python
  • Limiting Results in Queries
  • Using Relationship Tables
  • Filtering Input for Queries
  • Querying the Database
  • Connecting to MySQL
  • Contact Forms & Mailers
  • Improving your Gulp Workflow
  • Compile Sass with Gulp
  • Gulp your JavaScript workflow!
  • Welcome to Gulp.js
  • Doing More with Express
  • Serving Static Files in Express
  • Using Templates with Express
  • The Request and Response Objects in Express
  • Building the Friendship UI
  • What is the MailChimp API
  • Developing Express Apps Like a Boss
  • Getting Started with Express
  • JavaScript Strings
  • Introduction to Video Games
  • Transforms
  • Transitions
  • Web Fonts
  • Styling Content
  • Creating Friendships
  • Rails Deployment
  • Building the Profile Page
  • Testing the Whole App
  • Updating and Uninstalling Packages with npm
  • Installing Packages with npm
  • What is npm?
  • HTTP Methods and Headers
  • Creating a Basic Template Engine in Node.js
  • Handling Routes in Node.js
  • Creating a Simple Server in Node.js
  • Building a Command Line Application
  • Introduction to Node.js
  • Quiz Practice Project
  • Prototypal Inheritance
  • Constructor Functions & Prototypes
  • Rails Routing
  • Writing Tests
  • Introduction to Methods
  • Customizing Ruby on Rails Forms
  • Remember Me
  • Ruby on Rails Authentication
  • Borders
  • Gradients
  • Multi-Column Layouts
  • Rails Frontend Development
  • Using a jQuery Carousel
  • Add a Sticky Navigation Bar
  • Introducing jQuery Plugins
  • Getting Started With Rails
  • Typography
  • Backgrounds
  • Selectors
  • Animation
  • Ruby Standard Library: Part 2
  • Ruby Standard Library: Part 1
  • Store Inventory Using Modules
  • Include and Extend
  • Ruby Core Modules
  • Ruby Module Basics
  • Input and Output
  • Search
  • Ruby Class Design
  • The Internet
  • Ruby Core
  • Gems In Depth
  • Ruby Gems
  • Financing Your Company
  • Pricing and Project Proposals
  • Finding Your First Project
  • Starting a Freelance Career
  • Creating a Long Term Business
  • How WordPress Templates Work
  • Finishing Your WordPress Theme
  • Custom Homepage Templates in WordPress
  • Adding a Blog to a WordPress Theme
  • Custom Post Type Templates
  • Slim and Templates
  • Customizing Google Maps
  • jQuery Plugins
  • Form Validation and Manipulation
  • Adaptive Design
  • Advanced Techniques
  • Getting Work Done
  • A Lifestyle Choice
  • Growing Your Business
  • Client Services
  • Sales and Pitching
  • Introduction to Responsive Web Design
  • Fluid Foundation
  • Marketing and Promotion
  • Introduction to jQuery
  • Dependency Management
  • Marketing Basics
  • Making Money
  • Why Start a Business?
  • Marketing Strategy
  • Introduction to Accounting
  • Text Editors and HTML
  • Getting Started with Data Science
  • Responsive Design
  • Corporate Structure
  • Forming Your Company
  • Gradients
  • Web Typography
  • Backgrounds and Borders
  • CSS Box Model
  • Text, Fonts, and Lists
  • Values and Units
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Ruby Testing
  • Standard Library
  • Ruby Core
  • Ruby Modules
  • Ruby Procs & Lambdas
  • Framework Foundations
  • Printing
  • Page Layout
  • Box Model
  • Text
  • Data Types
  • Selectors
  • Introduction
  • Website Basics
  • Ruby Blocks
  • Ruby Loops
  • Ruby Methods
  • Ruby Hashes
  • Advanced Sass Concepts
  • Speeding up Workflow With Sass
  • Variables, Mixins, and Extending Selectors
  • Getting Started with Sass
  • Creating Home Page Assets
  • Applying Effects
  • How to Draw in Illustrator
  •  Adding Color and Type
  • Creating an Icon
  • Introduction to Illustrator
  • Workflow Basics
  • Slices & Save for Web
  • Vector Shapes
  • Type Tools
  • Masks Basics
  • Business Plan for Freelance Business
  • Business Plan Basics
  • Moving from WordPress.com to Self-Hosted WordPress.org
  • Improving Usability
  • Mobile Usability
  • Website Usability
  • What is Usability?
  • Layer Basics
  • Workspace Basics
  • Grid Layout
  • Flexbox Layout
  • Positioning Schemes
  • Float Layout
  • Display Modes
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Functions
  • Introduction Variables
  • Functions
  • Objects and Arrays
  • Control Structures
  • Basics
  • Ruby Arrays
  • Ruby Numbers
  • Ruby Strings
  • Objects, Classes, and Variables
  • Ruby Basics
  • Moving Beyond the Blog
  • Finding Business
  • Creating Content
  • Introduction to Blogging
  • Building Out WordPress Navigation
  • Building Page Templates in WordPress
  • The WordPress Loop
  • WordPress Header and Footer Templates
  • Working with CSS and JS in WordPress Themes
  • Starting a WordPress Theme
  • Local WordPress Development
  • Moving Forward with UX
  • Tools UXers Use
  • How UXers Think
  • What Do User Experience Designers Do?
  • What is User Experience (UX)?
  • Design Foundations Final
  • Becoming a Problem Solver
  • Understanding Aesthetics
  • WordPress Plugin Best Practices
  • Widgets and Custom Menus
  • Custom Post Types and Fields
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Efficiency!
  • Exploring the Java Collections Framework
  • Organizing Data
  • Getting There
  • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
  • Delivering the MVP
  • Creating the MVP
  • Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Selectors - Beyond the Basics
  • Harnessing the Power of Objects
  • Soft Skills - Psychology
  • Writing Online
  • Productivity
  • Presentation Skills
  • Important Skills For Professional Success
  • Meet Objects
  • Better SEO Through Tools
  • Better SEO Through Code
  • Perfecting the Prototype
  • Using your New Tools
  • Getting Started with Java
  • Video Marketing
  • Email Marketing
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Usability Testing
  • Usability Basics
  • Social Media
  • Finding Good WordPress Plugins and Themes
  • Managing Comments on a WordPress Blog
  • Working with Media in WordPress Blogs
  • Posts and Pages in WordPress
  • Blogging with WordPress Overview
  • WordPress Admin Settings
  • WordPress User Roles
  • The WordPress Codex
  • AJAX and APIs
  • Better SEO Through Content
  • Next Steps
  • Financing Our Company
  • jQuery and AJAX
  • Programming AJAX
  • AJAX Concepts
  • Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript
  • Password Resets and Testing
  • Adding User Support to Our Application
  • Password Hashing and Sign-In
  • Combine and Minify Assets
  • Optimize Assets
  • Measuring Performance
  • Planning for Performance
  • Introduction to SEO
  • Chrome DevTools Basics
  • AR Extensions
  • Callbacks
  • Query Interface
  • Validation
  • Responsive Patterns
  • Media Queries
  • Responsive Theory
  • Migrations and Relationships
  • Custom Media Players
  • Captioning Video
  • Media Basics
  • Blocks Practice
  • Working With Blocks
  • Ruby Blocks
  • Build a Simple Todo List Program
  • Ruby Booleans
  • The Logo Sprint
  • Logo Design 101
  • Selling Your Product
  • Marketing Your Product
  • Build a Bank Account Class
  • Ruby Variables and Methods
  • Ruby Objects and Classes
  • Introduction to ActiveRecord
  • Product Market Fit
  • Discovery
  • Build a Simple Contact List
  • Ruby Iteration
  • Ruby Loops
  • Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4
  • Owning a WordPress Site Long Term
  • WordPress Community Management
  • Working with Media in WordPress
  • Adding and Editing Content
  • Getting a WordPress Site
  • Selecting Elements and Adding Events with JavaScript
  • JavaScript and the DOM
  • Structuring Tables
  • Table Basics
  • Choosing Options
  • WordPress.com Social Features
  • Getting Started with WordPress
  • Organizing Forms
  • Form Basics
  • DNS Basics
  • Graphic Basics
  • Website Basics
  • Workflows
  • Installing a Ruby Development Environment
  • Working With Remote Repositories
  • Merging
  • Branches
  • Getting Started With Git
  • Why Version Control Matters
  • Installing Programs
  • Environment and Redirection
  • Console Processes
  • Console Users and Permission
  • Creating a Simple Drawing Application
  • Creating a Password Confirmation Form
  • Creating a Mobile Drop Down Menu
  • Building a WordPress.com Site
  • Getting Started with WordPress.com
  • Color Theory
  • Principles
  • Elements
  • Introduction to Design
  • Creating a Simple Lightbox
  • Creating a Spoiler Revealer
  • Introduction to jQuery
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Loops
  • Build a Grocery List Program
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Conditional Statements
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Variables
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Fundamental Concepts
  • Designing with the Latest Features
  • Protecting and Sharing Your Work
  • Licensing
  • Fair Use and Public Domain
  • Getting Started with Copyright
  • Finalizing the Project
  • Case Studies and Examples
  • The Brand Identity Design Process
  • Introduction to Brand Identity
  • Web Apps
  • Websites
  • Introduction
  • Basic Layout
  • The Box Model
  • Understanding Values and Units
  • Basic Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Database Security
  • Queries & Results
  • Professional Development
  • Applying & Interviewing
  • The Job Search
  • Networking
  • Personal Branding
  • Setting Your Course
  • Careers in the Tech Industry
  • Self-Assessment
  • Getting Started with PDO
  • PHP Inheritance & Interfaces
  • PHP Properties & Methods
  • PHP Objects and Classes
  • Securing and Maintaining a MySQL Database
  • Ruby Hashes
  • Ruby Arrays
  • SQL Calculating, Aggregating and Other Functions
  • Joining Relational Data Between Tables in SQL
  • MASH JavaScript
  • MASH CSS
  • MASH HTML
  • Treehouse Club - JavaScript
  • Treehouse Club - CSS
  • Welcome to the Treehouse Club
  • Say Hello to Python
  • Manipulating Schema with SQL
  • Creating Tables and Manipulating Data with SQL
  • Customizing WordPress Themes
  • WordPress Themes
  • Installing Wordpress
  • Reading Data from Databases with SQL
  • Installing MySQL Server and MySQL Workbench
  • Introduction to Data, Databases and SQL
  • Paginating a List: Model and View
  • Paginating a List: Controller
  • Adding Search: Model
  • Ruby Logical Operators
  • Adding Search: Controller & View
  • Moving Around in the Console
  • Refactoring the Codebase
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Basics
  • WWW
  • Ruby Control Structures
  • Cleaning URLs with Rewrite Rules
  • Cleaning URLs with Subfolders
  • Ruby Operators
  • Ruby Methods
  • Ruby Numbers (Ruby Basics)
  • Ruby Strings (Ruby Basics)
  • How Ruby Works
  • Integrating Validation Errors
  • Simple PHP Application: Wrapping Up The Project
  • Working with PHP Functions
  • Integrating With Paypal
  • Listing Inventory Items
  • Adding a Contact Form
  • Creating the Menu and Footer
  • Getting Started with PHP
  • PHP Internal Functions
  • PHP Returns & Closures
  • PHP Functions Basics
  • PHP Loops
  • PHP Conditionals
  • PHP Datatypes
  • PHP Data & Structure
  • PHP Getting Started
  • Forms
  • Tables
  • Objects
  • Links
  • Lists
  • Text
  • Introduction
  • Debugging HTML and CSS Problems
  • Sharing a Website
  • Responsive Web Design and Testing
  • Adding Pages to a Website
  • Styling Web Pages and Navigation
  • Customizing Colors and Fonts
  • CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
  • Creating HTML Content
  • HTML First
  • Beginning HTML and CSS
  • Newbie