CJ Williams

CJ Williams

Bozeman, MT
Open to Work

Owner of SilenceKillsDesign in Bozeman, MT. Web Developer, Graphic Designer, Screen Printer, Music Producer, Chef, and Marketing Nerd. Working full-time as a freelancer for medium-sized corporations across the US and Canada.

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Skills & Experience

  • Company

    SilenceKillsDesign

  • Job Title

    Marketing Director / Front-End Developer

  • Spoken Languages

    • English
    • Spanish
  • Awards

    • Winner of the November Design Challenge on Treehouse

451 Achievements

  • Getting Started With Spreadsheets
  • Introducing Spreadsheets
  • Arrow Functions
  • Pass Information Into Functions
  • Create Reusable Code with Functions
  • The Math Object
  • Working with Numbers
  • Making Decisions in Your Code with Conditional Statements
  • Working With Strings
  • Storing and Tracking Information with Variables
  • Hello, JavaScript!
  • Why Web Performance Matters
  • Moving Beyond the Blog
  • Finding Business
  • Creating Content
  • Introduction to Blogging
  • How to Have 1:1's
  • Finding Your First Project
  • Starting a Freelance Career
  • Angular Form Validation
  • Angular Basic Forms
  • Services in Angular
  • Angular Components
  • Setting Up an Angular Application
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • The Internet
  • DOM Traversal
  • DOM Manipulation
  • Events
  • Hello, jQuery!
  • Using Angular's Built-in Directives
  • Say Hello to Django
  • Controllers and Scope
  • Getting Started with Angular
  • Save for the Web
  • Adding Images and a Mockup
  • Logo Design
  • Creating a Wireframe
  • Introducing Adobe Illustrator
  • JavaScript Loops
  • Scrum Artifacts
  • Scrum Events
  • Introducing Scrum
  • What is Agile?
  • Finishing the Prototype
  • Grid Layout and UI Components
  • Getting to Know Foundation for Apps
  • The Walker Class for WordPress
  • Custom Menu Fields in WordPress
  • An Overview of Menus in WordPress
  • WWW
  • Using a jQuery Carousel
  • Add a Sticky Navigation Bar
  • Introducing jQuery Plugins
  • Learning activity: Experience Sampling
  • Art Direction with the Picture Element
  • Image Delivery with Srcset and Sizes
  • The Production Server
  • The Staging Server
  • The Local Development Environment
  • Finding participants for your learning activity
  • PHP Inheritance & Interfaces
  • PHP Properties & Methods
  • PHP Objects and Classes
  • Database Security
  • Queries & Results
  • Selections with D3
  • Getting Started with PDO
  • Paginating a List: Model and View
  • Paginating a List: Controller
  • Debugging, Best Practices, and Production
  • Refactoring with Sass
  • Installing Sass and Setting up the Project
  • Adding Search: Model
  • Adding Search: Controller & View
  • Refactoring the Codebase
  • Responsive Patterns
  • Media Queries
  • Responsive Theory
  • Cleaning URLs with Rewrite Rules
  • Cleaning URLs with Subfolders
  • Integrating Validation Errors
  • Building a Command Line Application
  • PHP Internal Functions
  • PHP Returns & Closures
  • PHP Functions Basics
  • Two-way Data Binding
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Working with Media Queries
  • CSS Animation Basics
  • Understanding CSS Transitions and Transforms
  • Understanding Flexbox and Multi-Column Layout
  • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
  • Selectors - Beyond the Basics
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Basics
  • AngularJS MVC Frameworks
  • Creating an SVG
  • Introduction to SVG
  • Introduction to Node.js
  • Fundamental Concepts
  • Designing with the Latest Features
  • Basic Layout
  • The Box Model
  • Understanding Values and Units
  • Basic Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Testing and Sharing the Extension
  • Introduction to jQuery
  • Running an Ecommerce Site Long Term
  • Extending WooCommerce
  • Managing Orders in WooCommerce
  • Managing Products in WooCommerce
  • Setting Up WooCommerce
  • Introduction to Ecommerce with WordPress
  • Add Bootstrap Components to WordPress Theme
  • Create Bootstrap Styled Theme Templates
  • Setup a Bootstrap Theme
  • Pick a Number! Any Number!
  • Putting the "Fun" Back in "Functions"
  • Shopping List
  • Things That Count
  • Ins & Outs
  • Say Hello to Python
  • Starting Right with PHP Best Practices
  • Solving an Important Problem
  • The Genesis Marketplace
  • Configuring a Genesis Child Theme
  • An Overview of the Genesis Framework
  • MASH JavaScript
  • MASH CSS
  • MASH HTML
  • Next Steps
  • Financing Our Company
  • Selling Your Product
  • Marketing Your Product
  • Product Market Fit
  • Discovery
  • Custom Media Players
  • Captioning Video
  • Media Basics
  • JavaScript Functions
  • An Overview of WordPress Frameworks
  • JavaScript Conditional Statements
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Variables
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Final Project: Create a Typographic Site
  • Laying Out Type for the Web
  • Basic Web Typography
  • How to Choose and Use Webfonts
  • Introduction to Typography
  • Advanced Directives
  • Concepts on Advanced Functions
  • Advanced Variables, Mixins, Functions, and Placeholders
  • Ruby Testing
  • Finishing Your WordPress Theme
  • Standard Library
  • 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
  • Ruby Core
  • Ruby Modules
  • Ruby Procs & Lambdas
  • Ruby Blocks
  • Ruby Loops
  • Getting Started with Advanced Sass
  • Ruby Methods
  • Ruby Hashes
  • Ruby Arrays
  • Ruby Numbers
  • Installing a Ruby Development Environment
  • A Template Hierarchy Review
  • Media Templates in WordPress
  • Custom Post Type Templates
  • Archive Templates in WordPress
  • Page and Post Templates in WordPress
  • Homepage Templates in WordPress
  • Core WordPress Theme Files
  • Modular Media Queries
  • Sass Grid System
  • Moving from WordPress.com to Self-Hosted WordPress.org
  • SMACSS and Sass
  • Sass and BEM
  • Workflows
  • Working With Remote Repositories
  • Merging
  • Branches
  • Getting Started With Git
  • Installing Programs
  • Environment and Redirection
  • Console Processes
  • Console Users and Permission
  • Owning a WordPress Site Long Term
  • WordPress Community Management
  • Working with Media in WordPress
  • Adding and Editing Content
  • Getting a WordPress Site
  • Getting Modular with Mixins and Functions
  • Moving Around in the Console
  • Chrome DevTools Basics
  • AJAX and APIs
  • jQuery and AJAX
  • Programming AJAX
  • AJAX Concepts
  • Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript
  • Selecting Elements and Adding Events with JavaScript
  • JavaScript and the DOM
  • JavaScript Objects
  • Treehouse Club - JavaScript
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Strings
  • Treehouse Club - CSS
  • Launching and Supporting a WordPress Plugin
  • Building WordPress Template Tags, Widgets, and Shortcodes
  • Making Money
  • Introduction to Accounting
  • Marketing Strategy
  • Marketing Basics
  • Forming Your Company
  • Corporate Structure
  • Why Start a Business?
  • Video Marketing
  • Media Queries
  • CSS Animations
  • Transitions and Transforms
  • Flexbox and Multi-Column Layout
  • Gradients
  • Web Typography
  • Backgrounds and Borders
  • CSS Box Model
  • Text, Fonts, and Lists
  • Values and Units
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Build a Website With Foundation
  • How WordPress Templates Work
  • What's New in Foundation 5
  • Prototyping With Foundation
  • Build a Website With Bootstrap
  • Prototyping With Bootstrap
  • 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
  • Welcome to the Treehouse Club
  • Reading Data from Databases with SQL
  • Installing MySQL Server and MySQL Workbench
  • Introduction to Data, Databases and SQL
  • Grid Layout
  • Flexbox Layout
  • Positioning Schemes
  • Start menu and App Icon
  • Sound Design
  • Animating and Saving Sprites
  • Designing Characters and a Scene
  • Introduction to Game Design
  • Structuring Tables
  • Table Basics
  • PHP Loops
  • PHP Conditionals
  • PHP Datatypes
  • PHP Data & Structure
  • PHP Getting Started
  • Ruby Strings
  • Objects, Classes, and Variables
  • Ruby Basics
  • Ruby Methods
  • Ruby Numbers (Ruby Basics)
  • Ruby Strings (Ruby Basics)
  • How Ruby Works
  • Building the Extension
  • Getting Started with WordPress
  • Moving Forward with UX
  • Tools UXers Use
  • How UXers Think
  • What Do User Experience Designers Do?
  • Improving Usability
  • Mobile Usability
  • Website Usability
  • What is Usability?
  • Color Theory
  • Principles
  • Elements
  • Design Foundations Final
  • Becoming a Problem Solver
  • Understanding Aesthetics
  • Introduction to Design
  • Going Mobile
  • Designing Email with CSS
  • Coding HTML Email
  • Introduction Variables
  • Functions
  • Objects and Arrays
  • Control Structures
  • Basics
  • Connecting WordPress Plugins with 3rd Party APIs
  • 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
  • Custom Dashboard Widgets
  • Controlling Admin Navigation
  • Customizing the Login Screen
  • Admin Color Schemes
  • Why Version Control Matters
  • DNS Basics
  • Graphic Basics
  • Website Basics
  • Introduction to Front-End Frameworks
  • Spriting with Compass
  • Compass Helper Functions
  • Advanced Sass Concepts
  • Compass Layout and Typography
  • Getting Started with Compass
  • Speeding up Workflow With Sass
  • Variables, Mixins, and Extending Selectors
  • Getting Started with Sass
  • What is User Experience (UX)?
  • Web Apps
  • Websites
  • Introduction
  • Launching the Website
  • Styling Content
  • Creating a Website Structure
  • Website Basics
  • Text Editors and HTML
  • Forms
  • Tables
  • Objects
  • Links
  • Lists
  • Text
  • Introduction
  • Email Marketing
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Usability Testing
  • Usability Basics
  • Social Media
  • Getting Work Done
  • A Lifestyle Choice
  • Growing Your Business
  • Client Services
  • Sales and Pitching
  • Marketing and Promotion
  • Protecting and Sharing Your Work
  • Licensing
  • Fair Use and Public Domain
  • Getting Started with Copyright
  • Soft Skills - Psychology
  • Writing Online
  • Choosing Options
  • Organizing Forms
  • Form Basics
  • HTML Email Basics
  • Float Layout
  • Creating Home Page Assets
  • Applying Effects
  • How to Draw in Illustrator
  • Workflow Basics
  • Slices & Save for Web
  • Vector Shapes
  • Type Tools
  • Masks Basics
  • Layer Basics
  • Workspace Basics
  •  Adding Color and Type
  • Creating an Icon
  • Introduction to Illustrator
  • The Logo Sprint
  • Logo Design 101
  • Building a WordPress Plugin Settings Page
  • How WordPress Plugins Work
  • Finalizing the Project
  • Case Studies and Examples
  • The Brand Identity Design Process
  • Introduction to Brand Identity
  • Launching a WordPress Site
  • WordPress and Forms
  • Extending WordPress Template Functionality
  • WordPress User Roles
  • Converting Static HTML into WordPress Templates
  • Display Modes
  • Customizing WordPress
  • Managing Comments
  • Adding and Editing Content in WordPress
  • Configuring WordPress
  • Getting Started with WordPress
  • Preparing to Code WordPress Templates
  • WordPress Theme Functions
  • WordPress Theme Templates
  • Content Strategy with WordPress
  • Simple PHP Application: Wrapping Up The Project
  • Working with PHP Functions
  • WordPress.com Social Features
  • Building a WordPress.com Site
  • Getting Started with WordPress.com
  • WordPress Admin Settings
  • The WordPress Codex
  • Productivity
  • Presentation Skills
  • Important Skills For Professional Success
  • Integrating With Paypal
  • Listing Inventory Items
  • 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
  • Better SEO Through Tools
  • Better SEO Through Code
  • Local WordPress Development
  • 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
  • Introduction to SEO
  • Adding a Contact Form
  • Creating the Menu and Footer
  • Advanced Techniques
  • Getting Started with PHP
  • Responsive Design
  • Adaptive Design
  • Fluid Foundation
  • Introduction to Responsive Web Design
  • WordPress Plugin Best Practices
  • Widgets and Custom Menus
  • Custom Post Types and Fields
  • Customizing WordPress Themes
  • WordPress Themes
  • Installing Wordpress
  • Newbie