Leann Drone
For the past few years I knew that I really needed to improve our store's website. We had been using the same one for too long and it wasn't that great in the first place. However, I was hesitant because I
Required Skills
- Comfortable working within a team of designers & back end developers.
- Able to provide clear and consistent communication on project status with the rest of the design & development team.
- Be able to understand and meet design requirements passed along by other team members within project management.
- Strong working knowledge of Adobe CS3, 4, or 5 Photoshop & Illustrator; able to interpret and pull graphics from comps passed from the design team.
- Developing with speed, flexibility, and priority in mind.
- Strong CSS skills; knowledge of how to appropriately use CSS to provide cohesive design semantics, unobtrusive styling, and quicker page rendering.
- Able to develop maintainable, scaling, and cross-browser friendly code across fully deployed, regularly trafficked sites.
- Familiar with source control principles and comfortable with CVS, SVN, git, or Mercurial (we use git).
- In-depth knowledge of IE 7, 8 quirks and how to address them.
- Working knowledge of CSS, DOM, and Javascript browser debugging tools.
- Able to at least interpret Javascript and jQuery code and make minor edits to JS behaviors.
Bonus Skills
- Experience developing with jQuery or other Javascript libraries.
- Social App Development - Experience in building social-based sites or applications (integrating Facebook, user management, comment systems, etc.)
- Experience creating email newsletters.
- Experience developing under Joomla 1.5 – 2.5.
