Scott Monterastelli

Scott Monterastelli

Illinois
Open to Work

I am a front-end developer looking to learn everything there is to know about programming!

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Skills & Experience

  • Company

    Lost Woods Design Co.

  • Job Title

    Web Designer / Founder

  • Spoken Languages

    • English

313 Achievements

  • Going Further with Type
  • Laying Out Type
  • Web Typography
  • How to Choose and Use Fonts
  • Introduction to Typography
  • 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?
  • GET and POST Requests in a Browser
  • Introduction to HTTP
  • Communicating with a RESTful API
  • Principles of Design
  • Elements of Design
  • Finalizing the Project
  • Case Studies and Examples
  • The Brand Identity Design Process
  • Introduction to Brand Identity
  • Getting the REST You Need 2
  • Marketing and Promotion
  • Business Plan for Freelance Business
  • Business Plan Basics
  • Better SEO Through Content
  • Introduction to SEO
  • Final Project: Create a Typographic Site
  • Laying Out Type for the Web
  • Basic Web Typography
  • How to Choose and Use Webfonts
  • Captioning Video
  • Media Basics
  • Implementing UX Content
  • Creating UX Content
  • UX Content Attributes
  • UX Content Basics
  • Going Further with Grid Layout
  • Building a Flashcard App
  • Sweeping Vues: Loops, Methods, Directives
  • What a Beautiful Vue!
  • Introducing Vue
  • JavaScript Frameworks, Libraries, and Developer Roles
  • JavaScript Outside of the Browser
  • Introduction to Typography
  • Combining Array Methods
  • Flexible Sized Grids
  • Introducing Grid Layout
  • Array Manipulation
  • Array Iteration
  • Creating a Command Line Weather Application
  • Handling Errors in Node
  • Getting Data From an API With Node
  • Introduction to Node.js
  • Regular Expressions
  • Callbacks and the DOM
  • Callbacks with Timers
  • The Logo Sprint
  • Logo Design 101
  • Classes
  • Objects and New Collection Types
  • Exploration
  • Discovery
  • The Cooler Parts of ES2015
  • ES2015 Basics
  • Design Foundations Final
  • Becoming a Problem Solver
  • Understanding Aesthetics
  • Introduction to Design
  • Introduction to Callback Functions
  • Keyframe and Line Drawing Animations
  • Transitions and Transforms
  • Project Setup
  • Getting Started with React Router
  • Component Lifecycle
  • Designing Dataflow
  • 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
  • Traversing the DOM
  • Responding to User Interaction
  • Making Changes to the DOM
  • Getting a Handle on the DOM
  • The Browser Environment
  • Stateful Components
  • Thinking in Components
  • First Steps in React
  • Events
  • Hello, jQuery!
  • Flexbox Layout
  • Methods
  • Object-Oriented Programming
  • Positioning Schemes
  • Float Layout
  • Display Modes
  • Finishing Your WordPress Theme
  • Custom Homepage Templates in WordPress
  • Adding a Blog to a WordPress Theme
  • Perfect
  • Perform
  • Console I/O
  • Prepare and Plan
  • Custom Post Type Templates
  • Building Out WordPress Navigation
  • Building Page Templates in WordPress
  • The WordPress Loop
  • WordPress Header and Footer Templates
  • More Advanced PHP for WordPress
  • PHP Basics for WordPress
  • Introduction to PHP for WordPress
  • Local WordPress Development
  • WordPress Plugin Best Practices
  • Widgets and Custom Menus
  • Custom Post Types and Fields
  • Customizing WordPress Themes
  • WordPress Themes
  • Installing Wordpress
  • Setting Up MongoDB
  • Going MEAN with Angular
  • Going MEAN with Express
  • Introduction to MEAN
  • Go Further With Mongo
  • Working With Collections
  • Understanding MongoDB
  • Getting Started with MongoDB
  • Improving Our Todo App
  • Services in Angular
  • Using Angular's Built-in Directives
  • Controllers and Scope
  • Getting Started with Angular
  • 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
  • Updating and Uninstalling Packages with npm
  • Installing Packages with npm
  • What is npm?
  • 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
  • Using a jQuery Carousel
  • Add a Sticky Navigation Bar
  • Introducing jQuery Plugins
  • Combine and Minify Assets
  • Optimize Assets
  • Measuring Performance
  • Planning for Performance
  • 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
  • Chrome DevTools Basics
  • Web Apps
  • Websites
  • Introduction
  • Quiz Practice Project
  • Prototypal Inheritance
  • Constructor Functions & Prototypes
  • Introduction to Methods
  • AJAX and APIs
  • jQuery and AJAX
  • Programming AJAX
  • AJAX Concepts
  • Responsive Patterns
  • Media Queries
  • Responsive Theory
  • Custom Media Players
  • Captioning Video
  • Media Basics
  • Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript
  • Working with Media Queries
  • CSS Animation Basics
  • Understanding CSS Transitions and Transforms
  • Understanding Flexbox and Multi-Column Layout
  • Building a Layout with Flexbox
  • Flexbox Properties
  • Understanding Flexbox
  • Positioning Page Content
  • CSS Layout Project
  • Page Layout with the Float Property
  • Controlling Layout with CSS Display Modes
  • Getting Started with CSS Layout
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
  • Selectors - Beyond the Basics
  • Working with CSS and JS in WordPress Themes
  • Starting a WordPress Theme
  • Selecting Elements and Adding Events with JavaScript
  • JavaScript and the DOM
  • Structuring Tables
  • Table Basics
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Loops
  • Choosing Options
  • Organizing Forms
  • Form Basics
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Conditional Statements
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Variables
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Advanced Sass Concepts
  • Speeding up Workflow With Sass
  • Variables, Mixins, and Extending Selectors
  • Getting Started with Sass
  • Form Validation and Manipulation
  • Introduction to jQuery
  • Adding and Editing Content
  • Getting a WordPress Site
  • How to Draw in Illustrator
  •  Adding Color and Type
  • Creating an Icon
  • Introduction to Illustrator
  • Workflow Basics
  • Slices & Save for Web
  • Vector Shapes
  • Type Tools
  • Masks Basics
  • Layer Basics
  • Workspace Basics
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Strings
  • Introduction Variables
  • Finding Your First Project
  • Functions
  • Objects and Arrays
  • Control Structures
  • Basics
  • Advanced Techniques
  • Responsive Design
  • Adaptive Design
  • Fluid Foundation
  • Introduction to Responsive Web Design
  • Color Theory
  • Principles
  • Elements
  • Media Queries
  • CSS Animations
  • Starting a Freelance Career
  • Transitions and Transforms
  • Flexbox and Multi-Column Layout
  • Web Typography
  • Listing Inventory Items
  • Adding a Contact Form
  • Creating the Menu and Footer
  • Getting Started with PHP
  • Website Basics
  • Gradients
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Backgrounds and Borders
  • CSS Box Model
  • Text, Fonts, and Lists
  • Values and Units
  • Forms
  • Tables
  • Objects
  • Links
  • Lists
  • Text
  • Introduction
  • Launching the Website
  • Styling Content
  • Creating a Website Structure
  • Text Editors and HTML
  • Website Basics
  • Newbie