Alvaro Ortiz

Alvaro Ortiz

Los Angeles

I'm a 20 something year old looking to enhance my skills in development and design. :)

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219 Achievements

  • Grid Layout and UI Components
  • Getting to Know Foundation for Apps
  • The Unity Editor and Scene Setup
  • Introduction to Video Games
  • Models
  • Controllers
  • Routes and Templates
  • Getting Started with Ember.js
  • Advanced Directives
  • Concepts on Advanced Functions
  • Advanced Variables, Mixins, Functions, and Placeholders
  • Updating and Uninstalling Packages with npm
  • Installing Packages with npm
  • What is npm?
  • Getting Started with Advanced Sass
  • Modular Media Queries
  • Sass Grid System
  • SMACSS and Sass
  • Sass and BEM
  • Running an Ecommerce Site Long Term
  • Prototyping With Foundation
  • Deploying to a Device
  • Debugging Our App
  • Improving Our User Interface
  • Using a Data Model
  • Views and View Controllers
  • Getting Started with Xcode
  • Swift Value vs Reference Types
  • Swift Properties
  • Swift Inheritance
  • Swift Classes and Objects
  • Swift Structs and their Methods
  • Swift Structs
  • Swift Enums and their Methods
  • Swift Enums
  • Swift Optionals
  • Swift Parameters and Tuples
  • Swift Functions
  • Control Flow
  • Collections
  • Operators
  • Types
  • Moving Around in the Console
  • Ruby Methods
  • Ruby Numbers (Ruby Basics)
  • Installing a Ruby Development Environment
  • Ruby Strings (Ruby Basics)
  • How Ruby Works
  • Variables and Constants
  • Extending WooCommerce
  • Managing Orders in WooCommerce
  • Managing Products in WooCommerce
  • Setting Up WooCommerce
  • Admin Color Schemes
  • Setup a Bootstrap Theme
  • Hosting with GitHub Pages
  • Building and Customizing the Blog
  • Getting Started with Jekyll
  • Introduction to Ecommerce with WordPress
  • Starting a WordPress Theme
  • The Local Development Environment
  • More Advanced PHP for WordPress
  • PHP Basics for WordPress
  • Introduction to PHP for WordPress
  • Local WordPress Development
  • Custom Post Types and Fields
  • Customizing WordPress Themes
  • WordPress Themes
  • Installing Wordpress
  • Quiz Practice Project
  • Prototypal Inheritance
  • Constructor Functions & Prototypes
  • Introduction to Methods
  • Keyframe and Line Drawing Animations
  • Transitions and Transforms
  • AngularJS MVC Frameworks
  • Getting Modular with Mixins and Functions
  • Getting Started with Data Science
  • Owning a WordPress Site Long Term
  • WordPress Community Management
  • Working with Media in WordPress
  • Adding and Editing Content
  • Getting a WordPress Site
  • The WordPress Codex
  • Getting Started with WordPress
  • Using a jQuery Carousel
  • Add a Sticky Navigation Bar
  • Introducing jQuery Plugins
  • Final Project: Create a Typographic Site
  • Laying Out Type for the Web
  • Basic Web Typography
  • How to Choose and Use Webfonts
  • Introduction to Typography
  • Professional Development
  • Applying & Interviewing
  • The Job Search
  • Networking
  • Personal Branding
  • Setting Your Course
  • Careers in the Tech Industry
  • Self-Assessment
  • 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
  • Protecting and Sharing Your Work
  • Licensing
  • Fair Use and Public Domain
  • Getting Started with Copyright
  • Going Mobile
  • Designing Email with CSS
  • Coding HTML Email
  • HTML Email Basics
  • Debugging, Best Practices, and Production
  • Refactoring with Sass
  • Installing Sass and Setting up the Project
  • Color Theory
  • Principles
  • Elements
  • Better SEO Through Tools
  • Better SEO Through Code
  • Better SEO Through Content
  • Workspace Basics
  • Introduction to SEO
  • HTTP Methods and Headers
  • Creating a Basic Template Engine in Node.js
  • Handling Routes in Node.js
  • Creating a Simple Server in Node.js
  • Building a Command Line Application
  • Introduction to Node.js
  • What's New in Foundation 5
  • Prototyping With Bootstrap
  • Introduction to Front-End Frameworks
  • Advanced Sass Concepts
  • Speeding up Workflow With Sass
  • Variables, Mixins, and Extending Selectors
  • Getting Started with Sass
  • Working with Media Queries
  • CSS Animation Basics
  • Understanding CSS Transitions and Transforms
  • Understanding Flexbox and Multi-Column Layout
  • Responsive Patterns
  • Media Queries
  • Responsive Theory
  • Grid Layout
  • Flexbox Layout
  • Positioning Schemes
  • Float Layout
  • Display Modes
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
  • Selectors - Beyond the Basics
  • Combine and Minify Assets
  • Optimize Assets
  • Measuring Performance
  • Planning for Performance
  • AJAX and APIs
  • jQuery and AJAX
  • Programming AJAX
  • AJAX Concepts
  • Creating an SVG
  • Introduction to SVG
  • Chrome DevTools Basics
  • Web Apps
  • Websites
  • Introduction
  • Custom Media Players
  • Captioning Video
  • Media Basics
  • Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript
  • Selecting Elements and Adding Events with JavaScript
  • JavaScript and the DOM
  • Structuring Tables
  • Table 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
  • Choosing Options
  • Organizing Forms
  • Form 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
  • Responsive Web Design and Testing
  • Adding Pages to a Website
  • Styling Web Pages and Navigation
  • Customizing Colors and Fonts
  • HTML First
  • Beginning HTML and CSS
  • Customizing the Login Screen
  • Starting with Design Mockups
  • Pretty Little Things
  • Working With Remote Repositories
  • Merging
  • Branches
  • Getting Started With Git
  • Why Version Control Matters
  • Launching the Website
  • Styling Content
  • Creating a Website Structure
  • Text Editors and HTML
  • Website Basics
  • Rebuilding from Scratch
  • Exploring the Master-Detail Template
  • Shaking Things Up
  • Interrogating the App
  • Learning the Language
  • Getting Started with Android
  • Newbie