Portfolio Website

  • Built from the ground up without CSS frameworks (Bootstrap, etc.)
  • CSS preloader
  • Flexbox to facilitate a modern, responsive layout
  • Media queries to optimise both the desktop and mobile experience
  • Waypoints JavaScript library for navigating between sections
  • Animation CSS library for subtle fading and sliding effects on elements
  • Third-party font library for scalable logos
  • Google Fonts for typography
  • JavaScript and jQuery for 'sticky' and mobile menus, scrolling to waypoints and toggling project information panels
  • PHP/AJAX contact form with reCAPTCHA integration

Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Villagers app

  • Built with React as a single-page application (SPA)
  • Asynchronous JavaScript calling a third-party API
  • React Hooks managing state and side-effects
  • React Router conditionally rendering components based on the route in the URL
  • Google Fonts for typography
  • Ionicons for scalable SVG icons
  • CSS grid facilitating a responsive layout
  • Media queries to enhance the responsive layout
  • Image lazy loading to improve app performance

Gazetteer - World Directory

  • A mobile first, single-page mapping web application to show data on countries from around the world
  • Integrates the Leaflet.js JavaScript library for interactive mapping
  • Uses Bootstrap for a clean, modern, mobile first design that adapts for larger screens
  • JavaScript/jQuery to aggregate and present data in an engaging and interactive format
  • Client-side asynchronous AJAX calls, fetching data where required, to maintain a seamless, single page application experience
  • PHP components using cURL for server-side API integration, to retrieve and return data from a variety of third parties

Company Directory

  • A mobile-first, single-page data management web application to enable maintenance of a fictional company's personnel data
  • Uses Bootstrap for a clean, modern, mobile-first responsive design that adapts for larger screens
  • JavaScript/jQuery controlling events in the user interface
  • Client-side asynchronous AJAX calls initiating Create/Read/Update/Delete (CRUD) actions on a database, maintaining a seamless, single-page application experience
  • PHP scripts connecting to a MariaDB database, via SQL queries, to build, sort and return datasets to the client

WebDev Blog

  • A fictional blogging website built using the popular WordPress CMS and Elementor Pro
  • Demonstrates a capability to work with the platform that powers over 40% of the internet (May 2021)
  • Built from a modern, clean custom design that is fully responsive for viewing on any device
  • Content built dynamically from articles maintained in an administration back-end

Hello, I'm Chris Walker.

Web Developer &
Full-Stack Engineer.

Hello, I'm Chris Walker.
Web Developer & Full-Stack Engineer.

My Projects About Me

My Projects

Portfolio Website

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This website itself demonstrates several key web development skills

ACNH - Villagers app

Screenshot of Animal Crossing project

A React application showcasing the Villagers from the Nintendo Switch game 'Animal Crossing: New Horizons'

Gazetteer - World Directory

Screenshot of Gazetteer project

A single-page web application that aggregates and displays country information using API integration

Company Directory

Screenshot of Company Directory project

A single-page web application that connects, via PHP, to a relational database to display and maintain its data

WebDev Blog

Screenshot of WebDev Blog project

An example CMS-built website using WordPress and Elementor Pro

About Me

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My Experience

BSc (Hons) Business Information Technology

23 years' experience in the IT industry

Expertise in the retail and mobile telecoms industries

Roles include:

  • Development
  • Systems Analysis
  • Solution Design
  • Solution Architecture

My skills include...

HTML5

CSS3

JavaScript

Node

React

jQuery

Bootstrap

PHP

Java

Python

C#

Database Design

SQL

Git

MTA certified

Contact

GitHub

chrismwalker.co.uk

LinkedIn

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