Joss Daniels

Joss Daniels

Member Since November 28, 2012
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Skills & Experience

  • Spoken Languages

    • English

756 Achievements

  • First Steps in React
  • Arrow Functions
  • Pass Information Into Functions
  • Create Reusable Code with Functions
  • The Math Object
  • Working with Numbers
  • JavaScript Objects and Conditionals
  • JavaScript Arrays and Loops
  • JavaScript Functions
  • Data Types and Variables
  • Data Cleaning
  • Understanding Cleaning Data
  • What is LTV?
  • LTV Analysis by Example
  • Finishing Touches
  • Styling Images
  • Styling Boxes
  • Styling Text
  • CSS Media Queries
  • CSS Layout Techniques
  • Box Model Concepts
  • The CSS Box Model
  • Tools and Techniques
  • The Deeper Negative Impacts on Society
  • Tricky Interfaces & Dirty Data
  • Introduction to Ethical Design
  • Fundamental Concepts
  • Understanding Values and Units
  • Basic Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Build an Accessible Form
  • Introduction To Accessibility
  • Practicing Data Visualization
  • Line and Area Charts, Scatter Plots, and Maps
  • Bar Charts, Histograms, and Pie Charts
  • Data Visualization Fundamentals
  • Telling the Story
  • Designing for your User’s "To-be"
  • Understanding your User’s “As-is” Scenario
  • Becoming Acquainted with Your User
  • Becoming a Design Thinker
  • Technical Interviewing
  • Preparing Design Files for Developers
  • Designing with Developers
  • Layout Patterns
  • Navigation Patterns
  • Designing With Patterns
  • Mobile-First CSS Layout
  • How to Have 1:1's
  • Introduction
  • Welcome to Basic Statistics for Data Analysis
  • Going Beyond & Best Practices
  • Introduction to User Onboarding
  • Design an Accessible Form
  • Introducing Accessible Design
  • Imposter Syndrome
  • Making Decisions in Your Code with Conditional Statements
  • Working With Strings
  • Storing and Tracking Information with Variables
  • Hello, JavaScript!
  • Give and Receive Feedback
  • Going Further with Type
  • Laying Out Type
  • Web Typography
  • How to Choose and Use Fonts
  • Introduction to Typography
  • Bringing It All Together
  • The Cash Flow Statement
  • The Balance Sheet
  • The Profit & Loss Statement
  • Introducing Financial Statements
  • Voice and Tone
  • User Interface Library
  • Visual Design Language
  • Understanding Design Systems
  • Interaction Design in Practice
  • Theories and Psychology
  • Hierarchy and Layout
  • Writing Copy
  • Analysis
  • Interviewing
  • Recruiting Participants
  • Material Design Components
  • Working With Material Design
  • Designing for iOS
  • Working With Human Interface Guidelines
  • Prototyping with a Design System
  • Material Design Basics
  • Understanding Design Systems
  • Principles of Design
  • Elements of Design
  • How to Critique Design
  • Implementing UX Content
  • Creating UX Content
  • UX Content Attributes
  • UX Content Basics
  • Putting It All Together
  • Embracing the Process
  • Curating the Work
  • Portfolio Goals
  • Demystifying the Portfolio
  • Interactivity in Adobe XD
  • Prototyping Designs in Adobe XD
  • Introducing Adobe XD
  • How to Make Wireframes in Adobe XD
  • How to Make Wireframes in Sketch
  • How to Make Wireframes in Balsamiq
  • How to Make Wireframes on Paper
  • What is Wireframing?
  • Quantitative Methods
  • Usability Studies
  • Qualitative Studies
  • Measuring Your Designs
  • Applying IA
  • Evaluating IA
  • Main Principles
  • What is Information Architecture?
  • Planning Your Users’ Journey
  • Strategy: Determining Goals for your Product
  • Understanding Our Users
  • Intro to User Experience (UX) Design
  • Persuasive Patterns
  • UI Patterns
  • Designing with Patterns
  • Error Checking
  • Conditional Formatting
  • Pivot Tables
  • LOOKUP Functions
  • Vulnerabilities: Configuration, Components, and Logging
  • Vulnerabilities: Authentication, Access, and Sensitive Data
  • Vulnerabilities:  Injection, XSS, CSRF
  • The OWASP Top 10 Explained
  • Creating and Modifying Database Tables
  • The Design Solution
  • The Design Problem
  • Design Principles
  • What is Product Design?
  • Telling the Story
  • Designing for Your User’s "To-be"
  • Understanding your User’s “As-is” Scenario
  • Becoming Acquainted with Your User
  • Becoming a Design Thinker
  • Working with jQuery Collections (2017)
  • Understanding jQuery Events and DOM Traversal (2017)
  • Introducing jQuery (2017)
  • Debugging, Best Practices, and Production
  • Refactoring with Sass
  • Installing Sass and Setting up the Project
  • Maintaining Secure Web Apps
  • Protecting Data and Keeping Attackers Out
  • Why Protect Your Web Apps
  • Add Reusable Logic to Your Sass
  • Write Smart and Efficient CSS with Sass
  • Improve Your Workflow with Sass
  • Getting Started with Sass
  • Subqueries
  • Set Operations
  • Build a Spreadsheet
  • Spreadsheet Best Practices
  • Spreadsheet Functions & Formulas
  • Getting Started With Spreadsheets
  • Introducing Spreadsheets
  • Practicing Data Visualization in Excel
  • Chart Formatting and Layout
  • When To Use What Type of Chart
  • Introduction To Data Visualization
  • Team Collaboration in Figma
  • Prototyping Designs in Figma
  • Introducing Figma
  • The Data Analysis Process
  • Getting to Know Your Data
  • Introducing Data Analysis
  • Big Data at Netflix
  • Where and How Big Data Is Used
  • What is Big Data
  • Lists, Code, Links and Images
  • Understanding Markdown
  • S3 Storage Service
  • AWS and "The Cloud"
  • Going Further with Grid Layout
  • Flexible Sized Grids
  • Introducing Grid Layout
  • Create a Banner Ad
  • Hello, Photoshop!
  • Digital Media Basics
  • Joining Table Data with SQL
  • Table Relationships
  • Database Keys
  • Database Normalization
  • Security in Practice
  • Common Attacks and Defenses
  • Hello Internet!
  • Building Forms With Bootstrap
  • Using Bootstrap Components
  • Responsive Layouts With the Bootstrap Grid
  • Getting to Know Bootstrap 4
  • Day 3: Getting Creative
  • Day 2: Advanced Selecting
  • Day 1: Joining Tables
  • Orientation: Selecting Data
  • Optimization Best Practices
  • Asset Optimization
  • Why Web Performance Matters
  • Security: Solutions
  • Security: Concerns
  • Rehearsal and Delivery
  • Creating and Refining
  • Preparing to Present
  • Design Patterns
  • Page Layout
  • Exploration
  • Discovery
  • Installing WordPress Locally
  • Going Further with HTML
  • Images, Text and Links
  • Structuring Your Content
  • Getting Started With HTML
  • WordPress Plugin Best Practices
  • WordPress Widgets
  • Custom Post Types in WordPress
  • Customizing WordPress Themes
  • WordPress Themes
  • DOM Traversal
  • DOM Manipulation
  • Events
  • Hello, jQuery!
  • Captioning Video
  • Media Basics
  • What Is WordPress?
  • Testing for Accessibility
  • Mobile Accessibility
  • Accessible UI Patterns
  • Semantic HTML and WAI-ARIA
  • WCAG 2.0 (and Other Standards)
  • Access for Everybody
  • Date and Time Functions
  • Aggregate and Numeric Functions
  • Building Forms with Bootstrap
  • Using Bootstrap Components
  • Responsive Layouts with the Bootstrap Grid
  • Getting to Know Bootstrap 4
  • GET and POST Requests in a Browser
  • Introduction to HTTP
  • Adding 3D Effects with CSS
  • Getting Started with CSS Transforms
  • Transition Timing Functions and Delays
  • Getting Started with CSS Transitions
  • Getting the REST You Need
  • Working with Text
  • Ordering, Limiting and Paging Results
  • Finishing the Prototype
  • Grid Layout and UI Components
  • Getting to Know Foundation for Apps
  • Get Involved in Open Source
  •  Create a Web Presence on GitHub
  •  Working on a Team
  • Working By Yourself
  • Hello, GitHub!
  • Go Further With Mongo
  • Working With Collections
  • Understanding MongoDB
  • Getting Started with MongoDB
  • Hosting with GitHub Pages
  • Building and Customizing the Blog
  • Getting Started with Jekyll
  • Hooking Into WordPress Plugins
  • Action Functions in WordPress
  • Filter Functions in WordPress
  • An Overview of Hooks in WordPress
  • Custom WordPress Customizer Settings
  • Native WordPress Customizer Options
  • Overview of the WordPress Customizer
  • The Settings API in Different Places
  • Taking WordPress Settings Further
  • Getting Started with Theme Options Settings
  • WordPress Settings API Overview
  • The Production Server
  • The Staging Server
  • The Local Development Environment
  • Dependency Management
  • Handling Errors When Manipulating Data
  • Deleting Data from a Database
  • Updating Data in a Database
  • Adding Data to a Database
  • More Advanced PHP for WordPress
  • PHP Basics for WordPress
  • Introduction to PHP for WordPress
  • Working with Media Queries
  • CSS Animation Basics
  • Understanding CSS Transitions and Transforms
  • Understanding Flexbox and Multi-Column Layout
  • The Walker Class for WordPress
  • Custom Menu Fields in WordPress
  • An Overview of Menus in WordPress
  • Simple Mobile Interface
  • Exporting Designs
  • Sketch Features
  • Introducing Sketch
  • Scrum Artifacts
  • Scrum Events
  • Introducing Scrum
  • Finding the Data You Want
  • Getting Data from a Database
  • Data, Databases and SQL
  • Save for the Web
  • Adding Images and a Mockup
  • Logo Design
  • Creating a Wireframe
  • Positioning Page Content
  • CSS Layout Project
  • Page Layout with the Float Property
  • Controlling Layout with CSS Display Modes
  • Getting Started with CSS Layout
  • WordPress Plugins
  • WordPress Themes
  • The WordPress Customizer
  • Managing Media in WordPress
  • Managing Content in WordPress
  • What is Agile?
  • SEO Plugins for WordPress
  • Enhancing the SEO of a WordPress Theme
  • Content Comes First
  • Introducing Adobe Illustrator
  • Customizing the User Experience in WordPress
  • Default User Roles in WordPress
  • An Overview of User Roles and Fields
  • How to Install WordPress on Your Computer
  • 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
  • WordPress Admin Settings
  • What is the MailChimp API
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
  • Selectors - Beyond the Basics
  • Building a Layout with Flexbox
  • Flexbox Properties
  • Understanding Flexbox
  • Keyframe and Line Drawing Animations
  • Transitions and Transforms
  • Art Direction with the Picture Element
  • Image Delivery with Srcset and Sizes
  • Using a jQuery Carousel
  • Creating an SVG
  • WWW
  • The Internet
  • Add a Sticky Navigation Bar
  • Introducing jQuery Plugins
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Basics
  • Responsive Patterns
  • Media Queries
  • Responsive Theory
  • Combine and Minify Assets
  • Optimize Assets
  • Measuring Performance
  • Planning for Performance
  • Fundamental Concepts
  • Designing with the Latest Features
  • Basic Layout
  • The Box Model
  • Understanding Values and Units
  • Basic Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • The Genesis Marketplace
  • Configuring a Genesis Child Theme
  • An Overview of the Genesis Framework
  • An Overview of WordPress Frameworks
  • Running an Ecommerce Site Long Term
  • Extending WooCommerce
  • Managing Orders in WooCommerce
  • Managing Products in WooCommerce
  • Setting Up WooCommerce
  • Introduction to Ecommerce with WordPress
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Conditional Statements
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • PHP Internal Functions
  • PHP Returns & Closures
  • PHP Functions Basics
  • MASH JavaScript
  • MASH CSS
  • MASH HTML
  • Making sense of it all
  •  Learning activity: Interviewing
  • Learning activity: Field Observation
  • Learning activity: Experience Sampling
  • Finding participants for your learning activity
  • Solving an Important Problem
  • Custom Media Players
  • Captioning Video
  • Media Basics
  • JavaScript Variables
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Final Project: Create a Typographic Site
  • Laying Out Type for the Web
  • Basic Web Typography
  • How to Choose and Use Webfonts
  • Introduction to Typography
  • 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
  • Business Plan for Freelance Business
  • Moving from WordPress.com to Self-Hosted WordPress.org
  • How WordPress Templates Work
  • 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
  • Treehouse Club - JavaScript
  • Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript
  • Treehouse Club - CSS
  • Selecting Elements and Adding Events with JavaScript
  • JavaScript and the DOM
  • Laravel Getting Started
  • Next Steps
  • Financing Our Company
  • Selling Your Product
  • Marketing Your Product
  • Product Market Fit
  • Discovery
  • Welcome to the Treehouse Club
  • PHP Loops
  • PHP Conditionals
  • PHP Datatypes
  • PHP Data & Structure
  • PHP Getting Started
  • Custom Dashboard Widgets
  • Controlling Admin Navigation
  • Customizing the Login Screen
  • Admin Color Schemes
  • Getting Started with WordPress
  • Structuring Tables
  • Table Basics
  • Start menu and App Icon
  • Sound Design
  • Animating and Saving Sprites
  • Designing Characters and a Scene
  • Introduction to Game Design
  • Choosing Options
  • Organizing Forms
  • Form Basics
  • AJAX and APIs
  • jQuery and AJAX
  • Programming AJAX
  • Soft Skills - Psychology
  • AJAX Concepts
  • 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
  • Finalizing the Project
  • Case Studies and Examples
  • The Brand Identity Design Process
  • Introduction to Brand Identity
  • WordPress User Roles
  • Writing Online
  • Add Bootstrap Components to WordPress Theme
  • Create Bootstrap Styled Theme Templates
  • Setup a Bootstrap Theme
  • Productivity
  • Customizing BuddyPress
  • Social Interactions in BuddyPress
  • Manage BuddyPress Member Profiles
  • Getting Started with BuddyPress
  • PHP Inheritance & Interfaces
  • PHP Properties & Methods
  • PHP Objects and Classes
  • Creating a Simple Drawing Application
  • Creating a Password Confirmation Form
  • Moving Forward with UX
  • Tools UXers Use
  • How UXers Think
  • What Do User Experience Designers Do?
  • What is User Experience (UX)?
  • Creating a Mobile Drop Down Menu
  • The WordPress Codex
  • Creating a Simple Lightbox
  • Creating a Spoiler Revealer
  • Introduction to jQuery
  • Better SEO Through Tools
  • Better SEO Through Code
  • Better SEO Through Content
  • Introduction to SEO
  • WordPress Admin Settings
  • Grid Layout
  • Flexbox Layout
  • Positioning Schemes
  • Float Layout
  • Display Modes
  • Debugging HTML and CSS Problems
  • Sharing a Website
  • Responsive Web Design and Testing
  • WordPress.com Social Features
  • Building a WordPress.com Site
  • Getting Started with WordPress.com
  • Presentation Skills
  • 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
  • Local WordPress Development
  • WordPress Plugin Best Practices
  • Widgets and Custom Menus
  • Custom Post Types and Fields
  • Customizing WordPress Themes
  • WordPress Themes
  • Installing Wordpress
  • Working with a Developer
  • Designing our App
  • Wireframing, Interaction Design and Planning
  • ADS Writing and Preparation
  • Introduction to UI Design
  • Business Plan Basics
  • What's New in Foundation 5
  • Important Skills For Professional Success
  • Owning a WordPress Site Long Term
  • WordPress Community Management
  • Working with Media in WordPress
  • Adding and Editing Content
  • Getting a WordPress Site
  • Build a Website With Foundation
  • Prototyping With Foundation
  • Build a Website With Bootstrap
  • Prototyping With Bootstrap
  • Introduction to Front-End Frameworks
  • 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
  • Advanced Sass Concepts
  • Speeding up Workflow With Sass
  • Variables, Mixins, and Extending Selectors
  • Getting Started with Sass
  • Chrome DevTools Basics
  • Creating a Long Term Business
  • Protecting Yourself With Contracts
  • Establishing a Proper Workflow
  • Pricing and Project Proposals
  • Finding Your First Project
  • Starting a Freelance Career
  • Going Mobile
  • Designing Email with CSS
  • Coding HTML Email
  • HTML Email Basics
  • How WordPress Plugins Work
  • The Logo Sprint
  • Logo Design 101
  • Improving Usability
  • Mobile Usability
  • Website Usability
  • What is Usability?
  • Limiting Results in Queries
  • Using Relationship Tables
  • Filtering Input for Queries
  • Querying the Database
  • Connecting to MySQL
  • Design Foundations Final
  • Becoming a Problem Solver
  • Understanding Aesthetics
  • Introduction to Design
  • Workflows
  • Working With Remote Repositories
  • Merging
  • Branches
  • Getting Started With Git
  • Why Version Control Matters
  • DNS Basics
  • Protecting and Sharing Your Work
  • Licensing
  • Fair Use and Public Domain
  • Getting Started with Copyright
  • Exterminator
  • Securing and Maintaining a MySQL Database
  • SQL Calculating, Aggregating and Other Functions
  • Launching a WordPress Site
  • Metrics
  • Sales
  • Pricing
  • Financing Your Company
  • From Idea to Execution
  • Moving Beyond the Blog
  • Finding Business
  • Creating Content
  • Introduction to Blogging
  • Making Money
  • Introduction to Accounting
  • Forming Your Company
  • Corporate Structure
  • Why Start a Business?
  • Installing Programs
  • Environment and Redirection
  • Console Processes
  • Console Users and Permission
  • Professional Development
  • Applying & Interviewing
  • The Job Search
  • Networking
  • Personal Branding
  • Setting Your Course
  • Careers in the Tech Industry
  • Self-Assessment
  • Paginating a List: Model and View
  • Paginating a List: Controller
  • Joining Relational Data Between Tables in SQL
  • WordPress and Forms
  • Extending WordPress Template Functionality
  • Manipulating Schema with SQL
  • Media Queries
  • Getting Work Done
  • A Lifestyle Choice
  • Growing Your Business
  • Client Services
  • Sales and Pitching
  • Marketing and Promotion
  • Creating Home Page Assets
  • Applying Effects
  • CSS Animations
  • Converting Static HTML into WordPress Templates
  • Video Marketing
  • Usability Testing
  • Creating Tables and Manipulating Data with SQL
  • Adding Search: Model
  • Adding Search: Controller & View
  • Preparing to Code WordPress Templates
  • How to Draw in Illustrator
  •  Adding Color and Type
  • Creating an Icon
  • Introduction to Illustrator
  • Refactoring the Codebase
  • Transitions and Transforms
  • WordPress Theme Functions
  • Reading Data from Databases with SQL
  • Defining the Project
  • Flexbox and Multi-Column Layout
  • WordPress Theme Templates
  • Cleaning URLs with Rewrite Rules
  • Gradients
  • Content Strategy with WordPress
  • Installing MySQL Server and MySQL Workbench
  • Introduction to Data, Databases and SQL
  • Moving Around in the Console
  • Intro to User Experience
  • Web Typography
  • Cleaning URLs with Subfolders
  • Integrating Validation Errors
  • Backgrounds and Borders
  • Email Marketing
  • Workflow Basics
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • CSS Box Model
  • JavaScript Strings
  • Marketing Strategy
  • Marketing Basics
  • Introduction Variables
  • Customizing Google Maps
  • Slices & Save for Web
  • Customizing WordPress
  • Google Maps Integration
  • Simple PHP Application: Wrapping Up The Project
  • Text, Fonts, and Lists
  • Working with PHP Functions
  • Integrating With Paypal
  • Listing Inventory Items
  • Adding a Contact Form
  • Creating the Menu and Footer
  • Getting Started with PHP
  • Ruby Basics
  • jQuery Plugins
  • Form Validation and Manipulation
  • Functions
  • Objects and Arrays
  • Control Structures
  • Basics
  • Managing Comments
  • Adding and Editing Content in WordPress
  • Configuring WordPress
  • Getting Started with WordPress
  • Fundamentals
  • Mobile
  • Introduction to jQuery
  • Social Media
  • Usability Basics
  • Animation
  • Transforms
  • Backgrounds
  • Media Queries
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Multi-Column Layouts
  • Transitions
  • Gradients
  • Borders
  • Web Fonts
  • Typography
  • Selectors
  • Values and Units
  • Web Apps
  • Websites
  • Introduction
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Vector Shapes
  • Type Tools
  • Masks Basics
  • Layer Basics
  • Workspace Basics
  • Selectors
  • Color Theory
  • Principles
  • Elements
  • Graphic Basics
  • Website Basics
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Framework Foundations
  • Printing
  • Page Layout
  • Box Model
  • Text
  • Data Types
  • Selectors
  • Introduction
  • Advanced Techniques
  • Forms
  • Tables
  • Objects
  • Links
  • Lists
  • Text
  • Introduction
  • 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