Joshua Briley

Joshua Briley

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Manchester, CT

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Skills & Experience

  • Company

    Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance

  • Job Title

    Principal Design Engineer

  • Spoken Languages

    • English

319 Achievements

  • Flexible Sized Grids
  • Introducing Grid Layout
  • Quiz Practice Project
  • Prototypal Inheritance
  • Constructor Functions & Prototypes
  • Introduction to Methods
  • Ruby Logical Operators
  • Ruby Control Structures
  • Ruby Operators
  • Ruby Methods
  • Ruby Numbers (Ruby Basics)
  • Ruby Strings (Ruby Basics)
  • How Ruby Works
  • Why Web Performance Matters
  • Positioning Page Content
  • CSS Layout Project
  • Page Layout with the Float Property
  • Controlling Layout with CSS Display Modes
  • Getting Started with CSS Layout
  • DOM Traversal
  • DOM Manipulation
  • Events
  • Hello, jQuery!
  • Improving the Application Code
  • Editing and Filtering Names
  • Traversing the DOM
  • Responding to User Interaction
  • Making Changes to the DOM
  • Getting a Handle on the DOM
  • The Browser Environment
  • Flexbox Properties
  • Understanding Flexbox
  • Building a Layout with Flexbox
  • Thinking in Components
  • First Steps in React
  • Adding and Removing Names
  • Creating Rails Apps
  • The Cooler Parts of ES2015
  • ES2015 Basics
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
  • Selectors - Beyond the Basics
  • Using a jQuery Carousel
  • Add a Sticky Navigation Bar
  • Introducing jQuery Plugins
  • 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
  • Installing a Ruby Development Environment
  • AJAX and APIs
  • jQuery and AJAX
  • Programming AJAX
  • Creating a Simple Drawing Application
  • Creating a Password Confirmation Form
  • Creating a Mobile Drop Down Menu
  • Creating a Simple Lightbox
  • Transitions and Transforms
  • Creating a Simple Server in Node.js
  • Custom Dashboard Widgets
  • Controlling Admin Navigation
  • Customizing the Login Screen
  • Admin Color Schemes
  • Custom Menu Fields in WordPress
  • An Overview of Menus in WordPress
  • An Overview of WordPress Frameworks
  • The Internet
  • Add Bootstrap Components to WordPress Theme
  • Create Bootstrap Styled Theme Templates
  • Setup a Bootstrap Theme
  • The Local Development Environment
  • Media Templates in WordPress
  • A Template Hierarchy Review
  • 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
  • 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
  • Starting a WordPress Theme
  • Local WordPress Development
  • The WordPress Codex
  • WordPress Plugin Best Practices
  • Widgets and Custom Menus
  • Custom Post Types and Fields
  • Customizing WordPress Themes
  • WordPress Themes
  • More Advanced PHP for WordPress
  • PHP Basics for WordPress
  • Introduction to PHP for WordPress
  • Installing Wordpress
  • Creating an SVG
  • Introduction to SVG
  • Art Direction with the Picture Element
  • Image Delivery with Srcset and Sizes
  • Hosting with GitHub Pages
  • Building and Customizing the Blog
  • Getting Started with Jekyll
  • AJAX Concepts
  • Creating a Spoiler Revealer
  • Workflows
  • Working With Remote Repositories
  • Merging
  • Branches
  • Getting Started With Git
  • Introduction to Node.js
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Loops
  • Custom Media Players
  • Combine and Minify Assets
  • Optimize Assets
  • Measuring Performance
  • Planning for Performance
  • Responsive Patterns
  • Media Queries
  • Responsive Theory
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Conditional Statements
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • WWW
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Basics
  • Designing Characters and a Scene
  • Introduction to Game Design
  • JavaScript Variables
  • Final Project: Create a Typographic Site
  • Laying Out Type for the Web
  • Basic Web Typography
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • How to Choose and Use Webfonts
  • Introduction to Typography
  • Designing with the Latest Features
  • Basic Layout
  • Understanding Values and Units
  • Product Market Fit
  • Selling Your Product
  • Marketing Your Product
  • Financing Our Company
  • Next Steps
  • The Box Model
  • Fundamental Concepts
  • Creating Home Page Assets
  • Applying Effects
  • Basic Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • How to Draw in Illustrator
  •  Adding Color and Type
  • Creating an Icon
  • Captioning Video
  • Media Basics
  • Advanced Variables, Mixins, Functions, and Placeholders
  • 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
  • Why Version Control Matters
  • Discovery
  • Moving Forward with UX
  • Tools UXers Use
  • How UXers Think
  • What Do User Experience Designers Do?
  • Finalizing the Project
  • Case Studies and Examples
  • The Brand Identity Design Process
  • Introduction to Brand Identity
  • Flexbox Layout
  • Grid Layout
  • Positioning Schemes
  • Float Layout
  • Display Modes
  • Advanced Sass Concepts
  • Choosing Options
  • Organizing Forms
  • Form Basics
  • Structuring Tables
  • Table Basics
  • Speeding up Workflow With Sass
  • Media Queries
  • CSS Animations
  • Transitions and Transforms
  • Gradients
  • Getting Started with Advanced Sass
  • Getting Started with Compass
  • Compass Helper Functions
  • Spriting with Compass
  • Compass Layout and Typography
  • Modular Media Queries
  • Sass Grid System
  • SMACSS and Sass
  • Sass and BEM
  • Getting Modular with Mixins and Functions
  • Flexbox and Multi-Column Layout
  • Backgrounds and Borders
  • Web Typography
  • Masks Basics
  • Workflow Basics
  • Vector Shapes
  • Type Tools
  • Slices & Save for Web
  • Layer Basics
  • Workspace Basics
  • Chrome DevTools Basics
  • CSS Box Model
  • Text, Fonts, and Lists
  • Values and Units
  • Better SEO Through Tools
  • Better SEO Through Code
  • Better SEO Through Content
  • Introduction to SEO
  • Web Apps
  • Websites
  • Introduction
  • Responsive Web Design and Testing
  • Sharing a Website
  • Debugging HTML and CSS Problems
  • 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
  • Getting Started with PHP
  • Working with a Developer
  • Designing our App
  • Wireframing, Interaction Design and Planning
  • ADS Writing and Preparation
  • Introduction to UI Design
  • Improving Usability
  • Mobile Usability
  • Website Usability
  • What is Usability?
  • What is User Experience (UX)?
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Selectors
  • Introduction Variables
  • Creating a Long Term Business
  • Protecting Yourself With Contracts
  • Establishing a Proper Workflow
  • Pricing and Project Proposals
  • Starting a Freelance Career
  • Finding Your First Project
  • Design Foundations Final
  • Becoming a Problem Solver
  • Understanding Aesthetics
  • Variables, Mixins, and Extending Selectors
  • Getting Started with Sass
  • Introduction to Illustrator
  • Adaptive Design
  • Responsive Design
  • Ruby Hashes
  • Introduction to Design
  • Ruby Arrays
  • Ruby Numbers
  • Ruby Strings
  • Objects, Classes, and Variables
  • Ruby Basics
  • The Logo Sprint
  • Logo Design 101
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Forms
  • Tables
  • Objects
  • Links
  • Lists
  • Text
  • Introduction
  • Launching the Website
  • Styling Content
  • Creating a Website Structure
  • Website Basics
  • Text Editors and HTML
  • Video Marketing
  • Rails Deployment
  • Building the Profile Page
  • Testing the Whole App
  • Rails Routing
  • Writing Tests
  • Email Marketing
  • Usability Testing
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Usability Basics
  • Social Media
  • Installing Programs
  • Customizing Ruby on Rails Forms
  • Ruby on Rails Authentication
  • Rails Frontend Development
  • Getting Started With Rails
  • Functions
  • Objects and Arrays
  • Control Structures
  • Basics
  • Environment and Redirection
  • Console Processes
  • Console Users and Permission
  • Moving Around in the Console
  • Color Theory
  • Principles
  • Elements
  • Intro to User Experience
  • Transitions
  • Fluid Foundation
  • Introduction to Responsive Web Design
  • Newbie