Mike McDaid

Mike McDaid

Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Open to Work

Digital Media Development BSc (Hons) Graduate. Into Web Design, Development and training in BJJ.

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Skills & Experience

  • Awards

    • Digital Media Development BSc (Hons)

153 Achievements

  • Custom Post Types and Fields
  • Customizing WordPress Themes
  • WordPress Themes
  • Getting Started with WordPress
  • Getting Modular with Mixins and Functions
  • Sass Grid System
  • Advanced Sass Concepts
  • Speeding up Workflow With Sass
  • Joining Relational Data Between Tables in SQL
  • Manipulating Schema with SQL
  • Creating Tables and Manipulating Data with SQL
  • Reading Data from Databases with SQL
  • Database Security
  • Queries & Results
  • Getting Started with PDO
  • Contact Forms & Mailers
  • Slim and Templates
  • Dependency Management
  • PHP Internal Functions
  • PHP Returns & Closures
  • PHP Functions Basics
  • PHP Loops
  • PHP Conditionals
  • PHP Datatypes
  • PHP Data & Structure
  • PHP Getting Started
  • Media Basics
  • What's New in Foundation 5
  • Variables, Mixins, and Extending Selectors
  • Build a Website With Foundation
  • Slices & Save for Web
  • Querying the Database
  • Connecting to MySQL
  • AJAX Concepts
  • Laravel Getting Started
  • Prototyping With Foundation
  • Installing MySQL Server and MySQL Workbench
  • Introduction to Data, Databases and SQL
  • PHP Inheritance & Interfaces
  • PHP Properties & Methods
  • Paginating a List: Model and View
  • Paginating a List: Controller
  • Adding Search: Model
  • Adding Search: Controller & View
  • Refactoring the Codebase
  • PHP Objects and Classes
  • Cleaning URLs with Rewrite Rules
  • Cleaning URLs with Subfolders
  • Integrating Validation Errors
  • Simple PHP Application: Wrapping Up The Project
  • Working with PHP Functions
  • Integrating With Paypal
  • Listing Inventory Items
  • Workflows
  • 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
  • Moving Around in the Console
  • Creating a Simple Drawing Application
  • Creating a Password Confirmation Form
  • Creating a Mobile Drop Down Menu
  • Creating a Simple Lightbox
  • Creating a Spoiler Revealer
  • Introduction to jQuery
  • Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript
  • Selecting Elements and Adding Events with JavaScript
  • JavaScript and the DOM
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Strings
  • Introduction Variables
  • Functions
  • Objects and Arrays
  • Control Structures
  • Basics
  • Media Queries
  • CSS Animations
  • Transitions and Transforms
  • Gradients
  • Getting Started with Sass
  • Prototyping With Bootstrap
  • Introduction to Front-End Frameworks
  • Grid Layout
  • Flexbox Layout
  • Positioning Schemes
  • Float Layout
  • Display Modes
  • Flexbox and Multi-Column Layout
  • Web Typography
  • Backgrounds and Borders
  • CSS Box Model
  • Text, Fonts, and Lists
  • Finding Your First Project
  • Starting a Freelance Career
  • Values and Units
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Selectors
  • Structuring Tables
  • Table Basics
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Choosing Options
  • Organizing Forms
  • Form Basics
  • 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
  • Installing Wordpress
  • Marketing Strategy
  • Introduction to Accounting
  • Marketing Basics
  • Why Start a Business?
  • HTML First
  • Beginning HTML and CSS
  • Adapting Data for Display in a List
  • Getting Data from the Web
  • Rebuilding from Scratch
  • Exploring the Master-Detail Template
  • Interrogating the App
  • Shaking Things Up
  • Usability Testing
  • Usability Basics
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Pretty Little Things
  • Learning the Language
  • Getting Started with Android
  • Adding a Contact Form
  • Creating the Menu and Footer
  • Getting Started with PHP
  • Forms
  • Advanced Techniques
  • Responsive Design
  • Adaptive Design
  • Fluid Foundation
  • Introduction to Responsive Web Design
  • Launching the Website
  • Styling Content
  • Creating a Website Structure
  • Text Editors and HTML
  • Website Basics
  • Newbie