chrismwalker-portfolio / chrismwalker

A modern, responsive portfolio website to demonstrate web and full-stack development skills.

Portfolio Website - Chris Walker

A modern, responsive portfolio website to host projects created by Chris Walker. Acts as a showcase to demonstrate web/full-stack development skills.

Table of contents

• General info
• Screenshots
• Technologies
• Setup
• Features
• Status
• Inspiration
• Contact

General info

This website is designed to showcase the web development skills of Chris Walker. It contains links to a portfolio of project work, a biography, a list of skills/experience and contact information. The website is in itself a showcase, demonstrating a range of web development technologies via a clean, modern, responsive design.

Screenshots

No screenshots.

Technologies

• HTML5
• CSS3
• JavaScript
• jQuery
• AJAX
• PHP

Setup

• Edit 'resources/js/script.js' to include your own Google reCAPTCHA site key for contact form submissions.
• Edit 'resources/php/sendContactMail.php' to include your own Google reCAPTCHA secret key and recipient email address for contact form submissions.

Code Examples

No code examples.

Features

• Built from the ground up without CSS frameworks (Bootstrap, etc.)
• CSS preloader
• Google Fonts for typography across the website.
• Third-party grid CSS for column layout.
• Flexbox used for arranging the projects and skills/contact sections, enabling a responsive layout as the screen size reduces.
• Waypoints JavaScript library for navigating between sections.
• Animate.css library for subtle animation effects - fading in divs and bouncing logos.
• Font Awesome font library for scalable logos.
• jQuery for scrolling to waypoints on button clicks, enabling/removing the sticky menu based on scroll direction, triggering the animations when reaching waypoints and changing the mobile navigation icon as the user opens/closes the mobile navigation menu.
• Media queries across a range of breakpoints for a responsive design on various screen sizes.
• PHP/AJAX contact form with reCAPTCHA integration.

To-do list:

• Links to new projects will be added to the projects section on an ongoing basis.

Status

Project is: In progress

Inspiration

Portfolio Website to host a range of projects demonstrating web development skills. Inspired by clean, modern, single-page responsive website designs.

Contact

• Created by Chris Walker
• https://www.chrismwalker.co.uk