Hello, World! My name is Joel and I am currently a Software Developer at Microsoft! I am a CS graduate from Western Washington University and from the Pacific Northwest.
Front-End Mentor is an online platform that provides everything you need (design files, assets, etc.) to get started with front-end development projects! They provide challenges that test your ability to build things on the web.
Meant to test my layout and responsive web design skills, this challenge focused on building out a landing page for a made-up company named Sunnyside Agency. The site needed to be optimal for mobile, tablet, and desktop users.
This very website is a recent project! I already had a personal portfolio website up, but took another look at it and didn't like what I saw; thus, the redesign. It was designed in Figma and developed with the basics: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Find out more about why I decided to NOT use any CSS or JavaScript framework!
What is Frontend Mentor? From their description
on LinkedIn, Frontend Mentor
"provides designs so that you can practice
your front-end skills using a real-life
workflow."
Now, what does that exactly mean? Come read my
blog post and find out!
Pursuing a career as a Software Developer? Come learn a little about me, my journey towards becoming a software developer, and why I start a blog post about it. Looking forward to meeting you!