Tools
Adobe Photoshop
Pixelmator
Adobe Illustrator | Inkscape
Adobe InDesign
MS Visual Studio Code
Sequel Pro
MySQL Toad
VirtualBox
Online Tools
Zapier
Amazon S3 & Cloudfront
Google Analytics
Technologies
HTML5 & CSS3
Bootstrap
JavaScript/JQuery
PHP 5+
MySQL
Methodologies
Scrumban (informal)
Waterfall
Env/Hosts:
Vagrant + Scotch Box
MAMP | WAMP | XAMPP
Apache
Nginx
Ubuntu Server
Turnkey Linux
Digital Ocean Droplet
Inmotion Hosting VPS
Other Skills
Oracle Retail
Oracle PL/SQL
Oracle Forms
Oracle Pro*C
Oracle 10g
Unix Shell Scripting
WordPress Integration / Internet Marketing Tools
WooCommerce
LeadPages
Kartra Setup and Customization
Everwebinar / WebinarJam
s2Member, Kajabi, Kartra Membership
MailChimp, Ontraport
Paypal, Worldpay, Stripe
Wistia
Theme Customization: Thrive Themes, Genesis, Avada, WPBakery Page Builder
Me (far right) with the webby award for Kasal.com (a Web Philippines brand), I was the design lead at the time.
Do What You Love
My career in web design began 2000 at Web Philippines Inc., I was mainly doing front-end work translating client requirements into a usable interface and page layouts using Photoshop then slicing them in Image Ready and then creating static pages and templates thru Dreamweaver. After that, I handed over my static pages to the developers for them to insert their PHP and Java Script codes and work their magic. Happy as I was doing purely creative work then, I always wanted to learn programming.
On my desk at Accenture Manila Delivery Center.
The opportunity came late 2003 when I was hired by Accenture as a junior software engineer and was trained in an in-house Oracle Retail/RETEK boot camp. This was the start of a long break from web work – in hindsight, I always knew I would return to my first passion I just didn’t exactly know when. Even if I was employed full-time then, whenever time permits, I moonlighted with web designing. I managed to get a client or two every year. Doing web work allowed me to mix both creative and technical work which I always found most fulfilling.
Me (seated front) and my team mates for the Myer account of IBM.
Seven years later, I finally made the decision to come back to what I always wanted to do. After I left Accenture 2011, I spent some time to refresh skills and study PHP/MySQL/Javascript, SEO & JQeury and begin freelancing. It may seem that I taken the long road but it was worth it – I’m bringing with me knowledge of the methodologies and software engineering practices of two renowned IT organizations.
You may visit my Linkedin profile here
Celebrate Epiphanies
Eurekapoint for me is also about having a vision and doing the work to make it real.
Eureka (pronounced /jʊˈriːkə/) is an interjection used to celebrate a discovery, a transliteration of a word attributed to Archimedes.
My Favorite Books
I often invest in books because they are one of the best ways I can update and expand my skills, learn from the experience of industry experts, pickup their best-practices and knowledge so that eventually, I can pass on all the benefits of the increased brain power to the projects that I am working on for my clients.
Below are just some of the most recent and noteworthy books that I have read, written by people I admire. (I also have a wishlist!)
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. – T. Jefferson
Beginning HTML, XHTML, CSS and JAVASCRIPT by John Duckett
Really helped me catchup with some of the changes beyond what I knew about XHTML1.0 and HTML 4.1. This was one of the first web related books I read when I started refreshing my skills early this year.
CSS the missing manual by David Sawyer McFarland (2ndEdition)
HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith
CSS3 for Web Designers by Dan Cederholm
Eurekapoint v2.1
This WordPress powered portfolio site was designed, and developed on a MacBook Pro 5,5 running OSX Lion and developed on a XAMPP server. This site uses a custom child theme (integrated with Superfish, Prettyphoto and Jquery tabs). The parent theme is called Showcase/1.0.17 by MidPhase Hosting.
Cross browser and platform testing was done using Oracle Virtual Box with the following guest operating systems: Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista Business and Windows 7 Ultimate. All graphics were done using Pixelmator and all portions of PHP, JavaScript, CSS and HTML code that required modifications were hand-coded using Aptana Studio 3.
This website is set with the following Open Typefaces:
Theano Didot Regular
Marmelad
This WordPress installation has been manually tuned to optimum performance and efficiency – with all major pages garnering Yahoo’s YSlow rating of Grade A. Performance Optimization WordPress Plugins by W3 EDGE.
Eurekapoint v1.0
First went live August of 2003, and laid mostly dormant because I got hired to do Oracle work full-time. I created this site using an Imac G3 (Blueberry) running MacOS 9.2, page was laid out using Dreamweaver 3, all graphics was done with Photoshop 5.5. I didn’t hand code much then and this site was laid out the old fashioned way with tables and single pixel transparent gifs – it wasn’t easy back then.
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