Jay Gaulard

Jay Gaulard

Maine

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Skills & Experience

  • Spoken Languages

    • English

190 Achievements

  • Enhancing the SEO of a WordPress Theme
  • Content Comes First
  • PHP Basics for WordPress
  • Introduction to PHP for WordPress
  • PHP Internal Functions
  • A Template Hierarchy Review
  • Media Templates in WordPress
  • PHP Returns & Closures
  • Custom Post Type Templates
  • The Local Development Environment
  • PHP Functions Basics
  • Archive Templates in WordPress
  • PHP Loops
  • PHP Conditionals
  • Page and Post Templates in WordPress
  • PHP Datatypes
  • Homepage Templates in WordPress
  • Core WordPress Theme Files
  • How WordPress Templates Work
  • 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
  • Layer Basics
  • Workspace Basics
  • Responsive Patterns
  • Media Queries
  • Working with CSS and JS in WordPress Themes
  • Workflows
  • Working With Remote Repositories
  • Merging
  • Branches
  • Getting Started With Git
  • Starting a WordPress Theme
  • Responsive Theory
  • Why Version Control Matters
  • AJAX and APIs
  • The Genesis Marketplace
  • Configuring a Genesis Child Theme
  • An Overview of the Genesis Framework
  • An Overview of WordPress Frameworks
  • Better SEO Through Tools
  • Better SEO Through Code
  • Local WordPress Development
  • Better SEO Through Content
  • Moving Forward with UX
  • Tools UXers Use
  • Introduction to SEO
  • How UXers Think
  • PHP Data & Structure
  • PHP Getting Started
  • jQuery and AJAX
  • What Do User Experience Designers Do?
  • Creating an SVG
  • Introduction to SVG
  • Combine and Minify Assets
  • Optimize Assets
  • Measuring Performance
  • Planning for Performance
  • WordPress Plugin Best Practices
  • Widgets and Custom Menus
  • Custom Post Types and Fields
  • Customizing WordPress Themes
  • WordPress Themes
  • Programming AJAX
  • Installing Wordpress
  • Build a Website With Bootstrap
  • Prototyping With Bootstrap
  • AJAX Concepts
  • Custom Media Players
  • Captioning Video
  • Media Basics
  • Installing Programs
  • Owning a WordPress Site Long Term
  • WordPress Community Management
  • Working with Media in WordPress
  • Adding and Editing Content
  • WordPress Admin Settings
  • WordPress User Roles
  • Getting a WordPress Site
  • Environment and Redirection
  • Getting Started with WordPress
  • The WordPress Codex
  • Finding Good WordPress Plugins and Themes
  • Managing Comments on a WordPress Blog
  • Introduction to Front-End Frameworks
  • Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript
  • Console Processes
  • Working with Media in WordPress Blogs
  • Console Users and Permission
  • Posts and Pages in WordPress
  • Advanced Sass Concepts
  • Moving Around in the Console
  • Selecting Elements and Adding Events with JavaScript
  • Speeding up Workflow With Sass
  • Blogging with WordPress Overview
  • Variables, Mixins, and Extending Selectors
  • JavaScript and the DOM
  • Getting Started with Sass
  • Working with Media Queries
  • CSS Animation Basics
  • Web Apps
  • Websites
  • Introduction
  • Chrome DevTools Basics
  • Creating a Simple Drawing Application
  • Understanding CSS Transitions and Transforms
  • Creating a Password Confirmation Form
  • Understanding Flexbox and Multi-Column Layout
  • Creating a Mobile Drop Down Menu
  • Final Project: Create a Typographic Site
  • What is User Experience (UX)?
  • Laying Out Type for the Web
  • Color Theory
  • Principles
  • Elements
  • Creating a Simple Lightbox
  • Basic Web Typography
  • How to Choose and Use Webfonts
  • Creating a Spoiler Revealer
  • Introduction to Typography
  • Introduction to jQuery
  • The Logo Sprint
  • Logo Design 101
  • Finalizing the Project
  • Case Studies and Examples
  • The Brand Identity Design Process
  • Introduction to Brand Identity
  • JavaScript Objects
  • Improving Usability
  • Mobile Usability
  • Website Usability
  • What is Usability?
  • Design Foundations Final
  • Becoming a Problem Solver
  • Understanding Aesthetics
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • Introduction to Design
  • JavaScript Loops
  • Structuring Tables
  • Table Basics
  • Forms
  • Tables
  • Objects
  • Links
  • Lists
  • Text
  • Introduction
  • Choosing Options
  • Organizing Forms
  • Form Basics
  • Functions
  • Objects and Arrays
  • Control Structures
  • Basics
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Conditional Statements
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Variables
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Grid Layout
  • Flexbox Layout
  • Positioning Schemes
  • Float Layout
  • Display Modes
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
  • Selectors - Beyond the Basics
  • Fundamental Concepts
  • Designing with the Latest Features
  • Basic Layout
  • The Box Model
  • Understanding Values and Units
  • Basic Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • 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