Sam Watson

Sam Watson

Euless, TX
Open to Work

I enjoy my family, reading and spending my spare time at Rancho Naturalista in Costa Rica.

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Skills & Experience

  • Company

    Watsondigital

  • Job Title

    Web Designer

  • Spoken Languages

    • English

208 Achievements

  • Control Flow With Loops
  • Swift Dictionaries
  • Introduction to Collections
  • Swift Operators
  • Swift Types
  • An Introduction to Swift Programming
  • Collections
  • Operators
  • Types
  • Variables and Constants
  • Why Version Control Matters
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Running an Ecommerce Site Long Term
  • Extending WooCommerce
  • Managing Orders in WooCommerce
  • Managing Products in WooCommerce
  • Setting Up WooCommerce
  • Introduction to Ecommerce with WordPress
  • WordPress Settings API Overview
  • Chrome DevTools Basics
  • JavaScript and the DOM
  • Programming AJAX
  • AJAX Concepts
  • Structuring Tables
  • Table Basics
  • Choosing Options
  • Organizing Forms
  • Form Basics
  • Installing Programs
  • Environment and Redirection
  • Console Processes
  • Exterminator
  • Console Users and Permission
  • 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
  • Welcome to the Treehouse Club
  • Limiting Results in Queries
  • Introduction to Accounting
  • Making Money
  • Marketing Strategy
  • Using Relationship Tables
  • Filtering Input for Queries
  • Querying the Database
  • Marketing Basics
  • Improving Usability
  • Mobile Usability
  • Website Usability
  • 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
  • Paginating a List: Model and View
  • Paginating a List: Controller
  • Adding Search: Model
  • Adding Search: Controller & View
  • Refactoring the Codebase
  • Cleaning URLs with Rewrite Rules
  • Cleaning URLs with Subfolders
  • Integrating Validation Errors
  • Forming Your Company
  • Corporate Structure
  • Simple PHP Application: Wrapping Up The Project
  • Working with PHP Functions
  • Integrating With Paypal
  • Listing Inventory Items
  • Spriting with Compass
  • Compass Helper Functions
  • Compass Layout and Typography
  • Getting Started with Compass
  • Advanced Sass Concepts
  • Speeding up Workflow With Sass
  • Variables, Mixins, and Extending Selectors
  • Getting Started with Sass
  • Finalizing the Project
  • Case Studies and Examples
  • The Brand Identity Design Process
  • Introduction to Brand Identity
  • Creating Home Page Assets
  • The Logo Sprint
  • Logo Design 101
  • Applying Effects
  • Moving Around in the Console
  • How to Draw in Illustrator
  •  Adding Color and Type
  • Creating an Icon
  • 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
  • What is Usability?
  • Moving Forward with UX
  • Tools UXers Use
  • How UXers Think
  • What Do User Experience Designers Do?
  • What is User Experience (UX)?
  • Introduction to Illustrator
  • Better SEO Through Tools
  • Better SEO Through Code
  • Better SEO Through Content
  • Introduction to SEO
  • Grid Layout
  • Flexbox Layout
  • Positioning Schemes
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • Float Layout
  • Display Modes
  • JavaScript Strings
  • Introduction Variables
  • Adding a Contact Form
  • Functions
  • Objects and Arrays
  • Control Structures
  • Basics
  • Media Queries
  • CSS Animations
  • Extending WordPress Template Functionality
  • Converting Static HTML into WordPress Templates
  • Preparing to Code WordPress Templates
  • WordPress Theme Functions
  • Creating the Menu and Footer
  • WordPress Theme Templates
  • Transitions and Transforms
  • Flexbox and Multi-Column Layout
  • Content Strategy with WordPress
  • Gradients
  • Web Typography
  • Why Start a Business?
  • Going Mobile
  • Designing Email with CSS
  • Coding HTML Email
  • HTML Email Basics
  • Video Marketing
  • Getting Started with PHP
  • Email Marketing
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Usability Testing
  • Usability Basics
  • Social Media
  • Customizing WordPress
  • Managing Comments
  • Web Apps
  • Websites
  • Introduction
  • Website Basics
  • Adding and Editing Content in WordPress
  • Configuring WordPress
  • Getting Started (iOS7)
  • Backgrounds and Borders
  • Getting Started with WordPress
  • CSS Box Model
  • Design Foundations Final
  • Becoming a Problem Solver
  • Understanding Aesthetics
  • Introduction to Design
  • Text, Fonts, and Lists
  • Values and Units
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Selectors
  • Workflow Basics
  • Slices & Save for Web
  • Vector Shapes
  • Type Tools
  • Masks Basics
  • Layer Basics
  • Workspace Basics
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Color Theory
  • Principles
  • Elements
  • Forms
  • Tables
  • Objects
  • Links
  • Lists
  • Text
  • DNS Basics
  • Graphic Basics
  • Introduction
  • Advanced Techniques
  • 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