Micah Dunson

Micah Dunson

Felicity, CA
Open to Work

I'm a web developer /writer /traveler. I love coding, traveling, and music. I do work freelance while adventuring and I'm always looking to learn something new!

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Skills & Experience

  • Company

    Phoja Unlimited LLC

  • Job Title

    Developer / Creator

  • Spoken Languages

    • English

449 Achievements

  • 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
  • Hooking Into WordPress Plugins
  • Action Functions in WordPress
  • Filter Functions in WordPress
  • An Overview of Hooks in WordPress
  • WordPress Plugins
  • WordPress Themes
  • The WordPress Customizer
  • Managing Media in WordPress
  • Managing Content in WordPress
  • Installing WordPress Locally
  • What Is WordPress?
  • Combine and Minify Assets
  • Optimize Assets
  • Measuring Performance
  • Planning for Performance
  • Building Forms With Bootstrap
  • Using Bootstrap Components
  • Responsive Layouts With the Bootstrap Grid
  • Getting to Know Bootstrap 4
  • Going Further with HTML
  • Images, Text and Links
  • Structuring Your Content
  • Getting Started With HTML
  • PHPDB Stage 3: Using Relational Data
  • PHPDB Stage 2: Querying the Database with PHP
  • PHPDB Stage 1: Databases and PHP
  • PHP Email Form Errors
  • PHP Email Forms
  • PHP Inventory
  • PHP Includes
  • PHP Loops
  • PHP Arrays
  • Combining Array Methods
  • Array Manipulation
  • Array Iteration
  • PHP Conditionals
  • PHP on the Web
  • Daily Exercise Program
  • Unit Converter
  • Getting to Know PHP
  • Going Further with Grid Layout
  • Flexible Sized Grids
  • Introducing Grid Layout
  • Next Steps
  • Improving Our Tests
  • Behavior Driven Development with Mocha & Chai
  • Classes
  • Objects and New Collection Types
  • The Cooler Parts of ES2015
  • Finishing the Game
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Serving Static Files in Express
  • Applying Express Knowledge
  • Middleware
  • Deeper into Routing with Express
  • Using Templates with Express
  • Getting Started with Express
  • Going Further with Routing
  • Navigating, Nesting and Redirecting Routes
  • Getting Started with React Router
  • Putting it all Together
  • Actions, Dispatch and Reducers. Oh my!
  • Modularizing the React Scoreboard Application
  • Getting Started with Redux
  • Component Lifecycle
  • Designing Dataflow
  • Validating a Form with Regular Expressions
  • Reformatting User Input
  • Regular Expressions
  • S3 Storage Service
  • AWS and "The Cloud"
  • Captioning Video
  • Media Basics
  • Stateful Components
  • Thinking in Components
  • First Steps in React
  • Improving the Application Code
  • Editing and Filtering Names
  • Adding and Removing Names
  • Traversing the DOM
  • Responding to User Interaction
  • Making Changes to the DOM
  • Getting a Handle on the DOM
  • The Browser Environment
  • Creating a Command Line Weather Application
  • Handling Errors in Node
  • Getting Data From an API With Node
  • Introduction to Node.js
  • Express Middleware
  • Sessions and Cookies
  • User Registration and Login
  • What is Authentication?
  • 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
  • DOM Traversal
  • DOM Manipulation
  • Events
  • Hello, jQuery!
  • Organizing Data
  • Getting There
  • How it Works
  • IDE Exploration
  • Delivering the MVP
  • Creating the MVP
  • Harnessing the Power of Objects
  • ES2015 Basics
  • Number Game App
  • Shopping List App
  • Logic in Python
  • Python Data Types
  • Python For Beginners
  • Completing and Testing the API
  • Communicating with Mongo Through Mongoose
  • Modeling Data for the API
  • Building API Routes in Express
  • Building a REST Service
  • Getting Started with Sass
  • Installing Sass and Setting up the Project
  • Introducing Unit Testing
  • Keyframe and Line Drawing Animations
  • Transitions and Transforms
  • Creating an SVG
  • Introduction to SVG
  • Building Forms with Bootstrap
  • Using Bootstrap Components
  • Responsive Layouts with the Bootstrap Grid
  • Getting to Know Bootstrap 4
  • Building a Layout with Flexbox
  • Flexbox Properties
  • Understanding Flexbox
  • Date and Time Functions
  • Aggregate and Numeric Functions
  • 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
  • Finding the Data You Want
  • Getting Data from a Database
  • Data, Databases and SQL
  • 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
  • Moving Forward with UX
  • Tools UXers Use
  • How UXers Think
  • What Do User Experience Designers Do?
  • What is User Experience (UX)?
  • Getting the REST You Need
  • Installing a Ruby Development Environment
  • Understanding Flexbox and Multi-Column Layout
  • Working with Media Queries
  • CSS Animation Basics
  • Understanding CSS Transitions and Transforms
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
  • Selectors - Beyond the Basics
  • Responsive Patterns
  • Media Queries
  • Responsive Theory
  • Fundamental Concepts
  • Designing with the Latest Features
  • Basic Layout
  • The Box Model
  • Understanding Values and Units
  • Basic Selectors
  • Positioning Page Content
  • Adding 3D Effects with CSS
  • Getting Started with CSS Transforms
  • Transition Timing Functions and Delays
  • Getting Started with CSS Transitions
  • Prepare and Plan
  • Starting a Custom WooCommerce Theme
  • Cart, Checkout and Account Templates and Hooks
  • More TODO with the MEAN Stack
  • Creating and Editing Data in a MEAN App
  • Going MEAN with Express
  • Going MEAN with Angular
  • Setting Up MongoDB
  • Introduction to MEAN
  • Global and Product Templates and Hooks
  • Getting Started with WooCommerce Theme Development
  • Managing Products in WooCommerce
  • Setting Up WooCommerce
  • Introduction to Ecommerce with WordPress
  • Overview of the WordPress Customizer
  • Custom Dashboard Widgets
  • Controlling Admin Navigation
  • Add Bootstrap Components to WordPress Theme
  • Create Bootstrap Styled Theme Templates
  • Setup a Bootstrap Theme
  • A Template Hierarchy Review
  • Media Templates in WordPress
  • Custom Post Type Templates
  • Archive Templates in WordPress
  • Introduction to Design
  • Page and Post Templates in WordPress
  • 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
  • More Advanced PHP for WordPress
  • PHP Basics for WordPress
  • Introduction to PHP for WordPress
  • Local WordPress Development
  • How to Install WordPress on Your Computer
  • CSS Layout Project
  • Page Layout with the Float Property
  • Controlling Layout with CSS Display Modes
  • Getting Started with CSS Layout
  • Art Direction with the Picture Element
  • Go Further With Mongo
  • Working With Collections
  • Understanding MongoDB
  • Getting Started with MongoDB
  • Meet Objects
  • Perfecting the Prototype
  • Using your New Tools
  • Getting Started with Java
  • Dependency Management
  • PHP Inheritance & Interfaces
  • PHP Properties & Methods
  • PHP Objects and Classes
  • PHP Internal Functions
  • PHP Returns & Closures
  • PHP Functions Basics
  • Getting Started with Ember.js
  • Improving Our Todo App
  • Services in Angular
  • Using Angular's Built-in Directives
  • Controllers and Scope
  • Getting Started with Angular
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • 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
  • Services and Dependencies
  • Two-way Data Binding
  • AngularJS MVC Frameworks
  • HTTP Methods and Headers
  • Creating a Basic Template Engine in Node.js
  • Handling Routes in Node.js
  • Creating a Simple Server in Node.js
  • Using a jQuery Carousel
  • Add a Sticky Navigation Bar
  • Introducing jQuery Plugins
  • Introduction to Video Games
  • Updating and Uninstalling Packages with npm
  • Installing Packages with npm
  • What is npm?
  • Quiz Practice Project
  • Prototypal Inheritance
  • Building a Command Line Application
  • Image Delivery with Srcset and Sizes
  • Introduction to Node.js
  • Constructor Functions & Prototypes
  • Introduction to Methods
  • Scrum Artifacts
  • Scrum Events
  • Introducing Scrum
  • What is Agile?
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Loops
  • Customizing the Login Screen
  • Admin Color Schemes
  • Integrating With Paypal
  • Listing Inventory Items
  • Adding a Contact Form
  • PHP Loops
  • PHP Datatypes
  • PHP Conditionals
  • Grid Layout
  • Flexbox Layout
  • Creating the Menu and Footer
  • Getting Started with PHP
  • PHP Data & Structure
  • Positioning Schemes
  • PHP Getting Started
  • Float Layout
  • Display Modes
  • Working With Remote Repositories
  • Workflows
  • Merging
  • Branches
  • Getting Started With Git
  • Why Version Control Matters
  • Environment and Redirection
  • Installing Programs
  • Console Processes
  • Console Users and Permission
  • AJAX and APIs
  • Moving Around in the Console
  • jQuery and AJAX
  • Programming AJAX
  • AJAX Concepts
  • Custom Media Players
  • Captioning Video
  • Media Basics
  • 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 Functions
  • JavaScript Conditional Statements
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Variables
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Better SEO Through Tools
  • Better SEO Through Code
  • Better SEO Through Content
  • Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript
  • Introduction to SEO
  • Selecting Elements and Adding Events with JavaScript
  • Creating a Long Term Business
  • Protecting Yourself With Contracts
  • JavaScript and the DOM
  • JavaScript Objects
  • Launching the Website
  • Styling Content
  • Creating a Website Structure
  • Text Editors and HTML
  • Website Basics
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Strings
  • Introduction Variables
  • Establishing a Proper Workflow
  • Pricing and Project Proposals
  • Finding Your First Project
  • Starting a Freelance Career
  • Functions
  • Objects and Arrays
  • Homepage Templates in WordPress
  • Core WordPress Theme Files
  • How WordPress Templates Work
  • Professional Development
  • Applying & Interviewing
  • The Job Search
  • Finalizing the Project
  • Case Studies and Examples
  • The Brand Identity Design Process
  • Networking
  • Personal Branding
  • Setting Your Course
  • Careers in the Tech Industry
  • Control Structures
  • Basics
  • Media Queries
  • Introduction to Brand Identity
  • The Logo Sprint
  • Logo Design 101
  • CSS Animations
  • Transitions and Transforms
  • Self-Assessment
  • Website Basics
  • DNS Basics
  • Graphic Basics
  • Chrome DevTools Basics
  • WordPress.com Social Features
  • Building a WordPress.com Site
  • Getting Started with WordPress.com
  • Moving from WordPress.com to Self-Hosted WordPress.org
  • WordPress Plugin Best Practices
  • Widgets and Custom Menus
  • Custom Post Types and Fields
  • Customizing WordPress Themes
  • WordPress Themes
  • Installing Wordpress
  • 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
  • WordPress Admin Settings
  • WordPress User Roles
  • The WordPress Codex
  • Owning a WordPress Site Long Term
  • WordPress Community Management
  • Working with Media in WordPress
  • Adding and Editing Content
  • Getting a WordPress Site
  • Getting Started with WordPress
  • Flexbox and Multi-Column Layout
  • Gradients
  • Web Typography
  • Backgrounds and Borders
  • CSS Box Model
  • Text, Fonts, and Lists
  • Values and Units
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Selectors
  • Welcome to the Treehouse Club
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Web Apps
  • Websites
  • Introduction
  • Forms
  • Tables
  • Objects
  • Links
  • Lists
  • Text
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • HTML First
  • Beginning HTML and CSS
  • Newbie