Jake White

Jake White

Tacoma, WA
Open to Work

Web Master / Developer at Bates Technical College and Web Developer at Frontline Education. Husband to Nicole and father to Payton and Hunter.

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Skills & Experience

  • Company

    Bates Technical College

  • Job Title

    Web Master

544 Achievements

  • Demystifying the Portfolio
  • Testing for Accessibility
  • Mobile Accessibility
  • Accessible UI Patterns
  • Semantic HTML and WAI-ARIA
  • WCAG 2.0 (and Other Standards)
  • Working with Text
  • Ordering, Limiting and Paging Results
  • Handling Errors When Manipulating Data
  • Deleting Data from a Database
  • Updating Data in a Database
  • Adding Data to a Database
  • Flexible Sized Grids
  • Introducing Grid Layout
  • Access for Everybody
  • Methods
  • Object-Oriented Programming
  • Perfect
  • Perform
  • Console I/O
  • Prepare and Plan
  • Express Middleware
  • Sessions and Cookies
  • User Registration and Login
  • What is Authentication?
  • Building Forms with Bootstrap
  • Using Bootstrap Components
  • Responsive Layouts with the Bootstrap Grid
  • Getting to Know Bootstrap 4
  • Get Involved in Open Source
  •  Create a Web Presence on GitHub
  •  Working on a Team
  • Working By Yourself
  • Next Steps
  • Improving Our Tests
  • Behavior Driven Development with Mocha & Chai
  • Introducing Unit Testing
  • More TODO with the MEAN Stack
  • Creating and Editing Data in a MEAN App
  • Setting Up MongoDB
  • Going MEAN with Angular
  • Going MEAN with Express
  • Introduction to MEAN
  • Go Further With Mongo
  • Working With Collections
  • Understanding MongoDB
  • Getting Started with MongoDB
  • Improving Our Todo App
  • Services in Angular
  • Using Angular's Built-in Directives
  • Controllers and Scope
  • Getting Started with Angular
  • Getting the REST You Need
  • 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
  • Developing Express Apps Like a Boss
  • Getting Started with Express
  • Updating and Uninstalling Packages with npm
  • Installing Packages with npm
  • What is npm?
  • HTTP Methods and Headers
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
  • Selectors - Beyond the Basics
  • Creating a Basic Template Engine in Node.js
  • Hello, GitHub!
  • GET and POST Requests in a Browser
  • Introduction to HTTP
  • The Production Server
  • The Staging Server
  • The Local Development Environment
  • Error Handling
  • Creating Distributable OOP Packages
  • Autoloading and Composer
  • Databases and International Concerns
  • Starting Right with PHP Best Practices
  • Database Security
  • Queries & Results
  • Getting Started with PDO
  • Custom WordPress Customizer Settings
  • Native WordPress Customizer Options
  • Hooking Into WordPress Plugins
  • Action Functions in WordPress
  • Filter Functions in WordPress
  • An Overview of Hooks in WordPress
  • Test Doubles
  • Acceptance Tests
  • Organizing your Tests
  • Creating Your Tests
  • Tools for Testers
  • How To Test Our Code
  • Contact Forms & Mailers
  • Slim and Templates
  • Dependency Management
  • Adding a New Web Page
  • Make It Beautiful with CSS
  • HTML: The Structural Foundation of Web Pages and Applications
  • Getting Familiar with HTML and CSS
  • PHPDB Stage 5: Search
  • PHPDB Stage 4: Pagination with LIMITs
  • PHPDB Stage 3: Using Relational Data
  • PHP Inheritance & Interfaces
  • PHP Properties & Methods
  • PHPDB Stage 2: Querying the Database with PHP
  • PHPDB Stage 1: Databases and PHP
  • Finding the Data You Want
  • Getting Data from a Database
  • Data, Databases and SQL
  • PHP Email Form Errors
  • PHP Email Forms
  • PHP Inventory
  • PHP Includes
  • PHP Internal Functions
  • PHP Returns & Closures
  • PHP Functions Basics
  • PHP Loops
  • PHP Conditionals
  • PHP Datatypes
  • PHP Data & Structure
  • More Advanced PHP for WordPress
  • PHP Basics for WordPress
  • Introduction to PHP for WordPress
  • Customizing the User Experience in WordPress
  • Default User Roles in WordPress
  • An Overview of User Roles and Fields
  • The Walker Class for WordPress
  • Custom Menu Fields in WordPress
  • An Overview of Menus in WordPress
  • Handling Routes in Node.js
  • Creating a Simple Server in Node.js
  • Building a Command Line Application
  • Introduction to Node.js
  • Using a jQuery Carousel
  • Add a Sticky Navigation Bar
  • Introducing jQuery Plugins
  • AR Extensions
  • Callbacks
  • Query Interface
  • Validation
  • Migrations and Relationships
  • Introduction to ActiveRecord
  • Securing and Maintaining a MySQL Database
  • SQL Calculating, Aggregating and Other Functions
  • Getting Started with Theme Options Settings
  • Overview of the WordPress Customizer
  • Learn About Drupal
  • Functions as First Class Citizens
  • Refactoring Our Code (Swift)
  • Building the Master and Detail Views (Swift)
  • Building a Music Library and Playlists (Swift)
  • Using a Navigation Controller With Segues (Swift)
  • Working With Multiple View Controllers (Swift)
  • Combine and Minify Assets
  • Optimize Assets
  • Measuring Performance
  • Planning for Performance
  • 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
  • Chrome DevTools Basics
  • Quiz Practice Project
  • Prototypal Inheritance
  • Constructor Functions & Prototypes
  • Introduction to Methods
  • AJAX and APIs
  • jQuery and AJAX
  • Programming AJAX
  • AJAX Concepts
  • Ruby Methods
  • Introducing Sketch
  • Ruby Numbers (Ruby Basics)
  • Ruby Strings (Ruby Basics)
  • How Ruby Works
  • Responsive Patterns
  • Media Queries
  • Responsive Theory
  • Custom Media Players
  • Captioning Video
  • Media Basics
  • Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript
  • Selecting Elements and Adding Events with JavaScript
  • JavaScript and the DOM
  • 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
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Loops
  • Fundamental Concepts
  • Designing with the Latest Features
  • Basic Layout
  • The Box Model
  • Understanding Values and Units
  • Basic Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Strings
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Conditional Statements
  • PHP Objects and Classes
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Variables
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • PHP Getting Started
  • WordPress Settings API Overview
  • Joining Relational Data Between Tables in SQL
  • An Overview of WordPress Frameworks
  • Manipulating Schema with SQL
  • Reading Data from Databases with SQL
  • Creating Tables and Manipulating Data with SQL
  • Launching and Supporting a WordPress Plugin
  • Building WordPress Template Tags, Widgets, and Shortcodes
  • Connecting WordPress Plugins with 3rd Party APIs
  • Building a WordPress Plugin Settings Page
  • How WordPress Plugins Work
  • Custom Dashboard Widgets
  • Controlling Admin Navigation
  • Customizing the Login Screen
  • Admin Color Schemes
  • 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
  • How WordPress Templates Work
  • Add Bootstrap Components to WordPress Theme
  • Create Bootstrap Styled Theme Templates
  • Finishing Your WordPress Theme
  • Custom Homepage Templates in WordPress
  • Adding a Blog to a WordPress Theme
  • Custom Post Type Templates
  • 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
  • The WordPress Codex
  • Local WordPress Development
  • WordPress Plugin Best Practices
  • Widgets and Custom Menus
  • Custom Post Types and Fields
  • Customizing WordPress Themes
  • WordPress Themes
  • Installing Wordpress
  • Spriting with Compass
  • Compass Helper Functions
  • Compass Layout and Typography
  • Getting Started with Compass
  • Advanced Sass Concepts
  • Speeding up Workflow With Sass
  • Variables, Mixins, and Extending Selectors
  • Getting Started with Sass
  • Better SEO Through Tools
  • Better SEO Through Code
  • Better SEO Through Content
  • Introduction to SEO
  • Moving Forward with UX
  • Tools UXers Use
  • How UXers Think
  • What Do User Experience Designers Do?
  • What is User Experience (UX)?
  • Creating Home Page Assets
  • Applying Effects
  • How to Draw in Illustrator
  • Starting a WordPress Theme
  • Design Foundations Final
  • Becoming a Problem Solver
  • Understanding Aesthetics
  • Grid Layout
  • Flexbox Layout
  • Positioning Schemes
  • Float Layout
  • Display Modes
  • Media Queries
  • CSS Animations
  • Structuring Tables
  • Table Basics
  • 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
  • Displaying Our Weather Data
  • Data Modeling With Structures
  • Concurrency
  • Pulling Data From the Web
  • Deploying to a Device
  • Debugging Our App
  • Improving Our User Interface
  • Using a Data Model
  • Views and View Controllers
  • Getting Started with Xcode
  • Swift Optionals
  • Swift Parameters and Tuples
  • Swift Functions
  • Control Flow
  • Collections
  • Operators
  • Types
  • Variables and Constants
  • Beyond the Basics
  • Advanced Objective-C
  • Foundation Framework
  • Introduction to Objective-C
  • Pointers and Memory
  • Functional Programming in C
  • Fundamentals of C
  • HTML First
  • Beginning HTML and CSS
  • Laravel Getting Started
  • Finalizing the Project
  • Case Studies and Examples
  • The Brand Identity Design Process
  • Introduction to Brand Identity
  • Setup a Bootstrap Theme
  • Getting Started (iOS7)
  • Improving Usability
  • Testing and Debugging
  • Introduction to Game Design
  • Installing a Ruby Development Environment
  • Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4
  • View Controller Transitions
  • Collection Views
  • Cocoapods
  • Launching a WordPress Site
  • WordPress and Forms
  • Extending WordPress Template Functionality
  • Wireframing, Interaction Design and Planning
  • ADS Writing and Preparation
  • Introduction to UI Design
  • Build a Website With Foundation
  • Prototyping With Foundation
  • Build a Website With Bootstrap
  • Prototyping With Bootstrap
  • Introduction to Front-End Frameworks
  • What's New in Foundation 5
  • Transitions and Transforms
  • Coding HTML Email
  • HTML Email Basics
  • Moving Beyond the Blog
  • Finding Business
  • Creating Content
  • The Logo Sprint
  • Logo Design 101
  • Mobile Usability
  • Website Usability
  • What is Usability?
  • Introduction to Design
  • Limiting Results in Queries
  • Using Relationship Tables
  • Filtering Input for Queries
  • Querying the Database
  • Connecting to MySQL
  • Introduction to Blogging
  • Rails Deployment
  • Building the Profile Page
  • Testing the Whole App
  • Rails Routing
  • Writing Tests
  • Customizing Ruby on Rails Forms
  • Ruby on Rails Authentication
  • Rails Frontend Development
  • Ruby Basics
  • Professional Development
  • Applying & Interviewing
  • The Job Search
  • Networking
  • Personal Branding
  • Setting Your Course
  • Careers in the Tech Industry
  • Self-Assessment
  • Paginating a List: Controller
  • Paginating a List: Model and View
  • Getting Work Done
  • A Lifestyle Choice
  • Growing Your Business
  • Client Services
  • Sales and Pitching
  • Marketing and Promotion
  • Converting Static HTML into WordPress Templates
  • Preparing to Code WordPress Templates
  • Adding Search: Controller & View
  • Adding Search: Model
  •  Adding Color and Type
  • Creating an Icon
  • Introduction to Illustrator
  • WordPress Theme Functions
  • Refactoring the Codebase
  • Defining the Project
  • Flexbox and Multi-Column Layout
  • WordPress Theme Templates
  • Cleaning URLs with Rewrite Rules
  • Content Strategy with WordPress
  • Gradients
  • Web Typography
  • Installing MySQL Server and MySQL Workbench
  • Introduction to Data, Databases and SQL
  • Backgrounds and Borders
  • Cleaning URLs with Subfolders
  • Intro to User Experience
  • Metrics
  • Sales
  • Pricing
  • Financing Your Company
  • Introduction to Accounting
  • Simple PHP Application: Wrapping Up The Project
  • Integrating With Paypal
  • Integrating Validation Errors
  • InControl Conference
  • Working with PHP Functions
  • Listing Inventory Items
  • Advanced Selectors
  • CSS Box Model
  • Text, Fonts, and Lists
  • Values and Units
  • Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Introduction Variables
  • Functions
  • Web Apps
  • Websites
  • Introduction
  • Customizing WordPress
  • Managing Comments
  • Adding and Editing Content in WordPress
  • Configuring WordPress
  • Advanced Techniques
  • Responsive Design
  • Workflow Basics
  • Slices & Save for Web
  • Adaptive Design
  • Fluid Foundation
  • Introduction to Responsive Web Design
  • Vector Shapes
  • Video Marketing
  • Email Marketing
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • From Idea to Execution
  • Usability Testing
  • Usability Basics
  • Getting Started with WordPress
  • Social Media
  • Adding a Contact Form
  • Launching the Website
  • Styling Content
  • Creating a Website Structure
  • Learning the Language
  • Getting Started with iPhone
  • Getting Started with Android
  • Creating the Menu and Footer
  • Text Editors and HTML
  • Making Money
  • Marketing Strategy
  • Getting Started with PHP
  • Marketing Basics
  • Forming Your Company
  • Corporate Structure
  • Getting Started With Rails
  • Website Basics
  • Why Start a Business?
  • Objects and Arrays
  • Control Structures
  • Basics
  • Fundamentals
  • Media Queries
  • CSS3
  • Multi-Column Layouts
  • Animation
  • Graphic Basics
  • Transforms
  • Transitions
  • Backgrounds
  • Gradients
  • Borders
  • Web Fonts
  • Typography
  • Type Tools
  • Selectors
  • Mastery Challenge
  • CSS
  • Text Code Challenge
  • Selector Code Challenge
  • Online Dating
  • Chair Yoga
  • Video
  • HTML5
  • Basics
  • Color Theory
  • Aesthetic Foundations
  • Principles
  • Elements
  • Website Basics
  • Framework Foundations
  • Printing
  • Page Layout
  • Box Model
  • Text
  • Data Types
  • Selectors
  • Introduction
  • HTML Master
  • HTML
  • Tables Challenge
  • Taking The Perfect Profile Picture
  • Masks Basics
  • Layer Basics
  • Workspace Basics
  • Forms
  • Tables
  • Objects
  • Links
  • List Challenge
  • Lists
  • Text
  • Introduction
  • Newbie