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Daniel Plummer
Portfolio & Projects
Hello, and thank you for visiting. This is my portfolio containing just some of the projects I have worked on, along with other small designs and programs that I have developed. If you'd like to get in touch, please use the contact form below.
Skills
I have worked in IT, SEO, and web development for over 6 years, giving me a broad range of skills and experience. This allows me to fill numerous roles, including support, networking, sys admin, web development and marketing.
Web Development
Using technologies including HTML, CSS, JS, jQuery, PHP, and MySQL, I have designed and developed many websites. I also have experience with WordPress, and I am self-taught in ReactJS.
IT Support & Sys Admin
I can provide hardware and software support for both Windows and Macs, and I have experience with managing Windows Server, Active Directory, and Office 365.
Networking
I have experience in network design, maintenance and installation, and training with technologies including Cisco.
SEO & Online Marketing
Using SEO techniques, I can help improve search engine rankings, in turn increasing traffic and conversions.
Websites
Hermitage Horticultural Society and Gardening Club
This website was built using WordPress for a club run by family members. They wanted to have a website to attract new members, display information about the shows and competitions, and have somewhere for members to see the latest news. There is also a photo gallery.
View ProjectTemplate A
I wanted to create a website template that would be ideal for a professional looking to start establishing their online presence. As such, the design of this website is stylish but doesn't have any fancy features, making it very fast.
View ProjectTemplate B
This template would fit a small business who have a small number of services that they would like to display information about. Again, a lack of fancy features makes this website fast, but the full-width parallax images also make it attractive.
View ProjectApps
Minesweeper
I wanted my next app to be slightly more challenging, so I decided to use some of the components that I have already created to try Minesweeper. This project ended up not being too difficult, one challenge I encountered was how to handle onClick when the revealed cell is 0, which required calling a function recursively to display all the safe cells nearby. Another challenge was how to handle right clicks for flagging cells, which was handled with event.nativeEvent.button to split up handleClick into left click and right click.
View ProjectGameload
Now I had a game that worked with several different options, I wanted to spice up the user interface for it. I used React.Bootstrap to style the different elements, adding in an offcanvas menu to display the previous moves, and a modal with a form so a new game with different conditions could be started. This is where I began to understand the difference between Class and Function in React.
View ProjectConnect4
Next, I wanted to try something slightly more challenging, without straying too far from TicTacToe. Connect4 was perfect for this; and as part of this I also wanted to make the board modular so I could specify the total amount of columns, rows and winning squares and it would still work. The biggest challenge was working out the victory condition, as checking the board for every possible winning condition would get slow. Instead, I needed to create a double loop to check the possible squares around the square just clicked.
View ProjectTicTacToe
A basic game of TicTacToe using ReactJS. This is the starting project recommended when learning React. This contains the extra improvements, such as displaying the location of each move, bolding the currently selected move, using loops to create the board, and highlighting the winning squares.
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