Karen de Graaf

Karen de Graaf

Member Since February 2, 2014
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Skills & Experience

180 Achievements

  • Creating Distributable OOP Packages
  • Autoloading and Composer
  • Databases and International Concerns
  • Starting Right with PHP Best Practices
  • PHP Inheritance & Interfaces
  • Going Mobile
  • Designing Email with CSS
  • Coding HTML Email
  • HTML Email Basics
  • Custom Post Type Templates
  • Building Out WordPress Navigation
  • Building Page Templates in WordPress
  • The WordPress Loop
  • PHP Properties & Methods
  • PHP Objects and Classes
  • AJAX and APIs
  • jQuery and AJAX
  • Marketing Basics
  • Programming AJAX
  • Forming Your Company
  • Corporate Structure
  • Why Start a Business?
  • AJAX Concepts
  • Limiting Results in Queries
  • Paginating a List: Model and View
  • Paginating a List: Controller
  • Using Relationship Tables
  • Filtering Input for Queries
  • Adding Search: Model
  • Adding Search: Controller & View
  • Cleaning URLs with Rewrite Rules
  • Querying the Database
  • Connecting to MySQL
  • Securing and Maintaining a MySQL Database
  • SQL Calculating, Aggregating and Other Functions
  • Joining Relational Data Between Tables in SQL
  • Manipulating Schema with SQL
  • Creating Tables and Manipulating Data with SQL
  • Reading Data from Databases with SQL
  • Installing MySQL Server and MySQL Workbench
  • Introduction to Data, Databases and SQL
  • Websites
  • Web Apps
  • Introduction
  • Chrome DevTools Basics
  • Building WordPress Template Tags, Widgets, and Shortcodes
  • Connecting WordPress Plugins with 3rd Party APIs
  • Launching and Supporting a WordPress Plugin
  • Building a WordPress Plugin Settings Page
  • How WordPress Plugins Work
  • Launching a WordPress Site
  • 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
  • WordPress and Forms
  • Extending WordPress Template Functionality
  • Preparing to Code WordPress Templates
  • Converting Static HTML into WordPress Templates
  • WordPress Theme Functions
  • WordPress Theme Templates
  • Content Strategy with WordPress
  • 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
  • Better SEO Through Content
  • Moving Beyond the Blog
  • Finding Business
  • Creating Content
  • Introduction to Blogging
  • Introduction to SEO
  • Local WordPress Development
  • WordPress Plugin Best Practices
  • The Logo Sprint
  • Logo Design 101
  • Widgets and Custom Menus
  • Refactoring the Codebase
  • Cleaning URLs with Subfolders
  • Integrating Validation Errors
  • Custom Post Types and Fields
  • Customizing WordPress Themes
  • WordPress Themes
  • Installing Wordpress
  • Simple PHP Application: Wrapping Up The Project
  • Working with PHP Functions
  • Integrating With Paypal
  • Setting Your Course
  • Careers in the Tech Industry
  • Self-Assessment
  • Listing Inventory Items
  • Adding a Contact Form
  • Creating the Menu and Footer
  • Prototyping With Foundation
  • Getting Started with PHP
  • Grid Layout
  • Flexbox Layout
  • Positioning Schemes
  • Float Layout
  • Display Modes
  • 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
  • Advanced Sass Concepts
  • Speeding up Workflow With Sass
  • Variables, Mixins, and Extending Selectors
  • Getting Started with Sass
  • Build a Website With Bootstrap
  • Prototyping With Bootstrap
  • Introduction to Front-End Frameworks
  • Customizing Google Maps
  • Google Maps Integration
  • jQuery Plugins
  • Form Validation and Manipulation
  • Introduction to jQuery
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Strings
  • Introduction Variables
  • Functions
  • Objects and Arrays
  • Design Foundations Final
  • Becoming a Problem Solver
  • Understanding Aesthetics
  • Introduction to Design
  • Advanced Techniques
  • Responsive Design
  • Adaptive Design
  • Fluid Foundation
  • Introduction to Responsive Web Design
  • Media Queries
  • CSS Animations
  • Transitions and Transforms
  • Flexbox and Multi-Column Layout
  • Gradients
  • Web Typography
  • Backgrounds and Borders
  • CSS Box Model
  • Workspace Basics
  • Control Structures
  • Basics
  • Forms
  • Tables
  • Objects
  • Lists
  • Links
  • Text
  • Introduction
  • Text, Fonts, and Lists
  • Values and Units
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Color Theory
  • Principles
  • Elements
  • Styling Content
  • Text Editors and HTML
  • Launching the Website
  • Creating a Website Structure
  • Website Basics
  • Newbie