Hello, my name is Yan White. I am a front end web developer.

I originally went to art college to study art and graphic design, and then became a web designer around 2000. I was freelance for a few years and now work as a contractor with Digital agencies in London.

I work with Html and CSS (and implement existing JQuery plugins) to build all kinds of digital content, cross-browser, semantic and accessible. I haven’t been required to support IE6 for the last year or so and that makes me happy This site is built on the Roots theme for WordPress and uses Html5 boilerplate. It’s brand new so doesn’t feature any fancy Html5 typography mask, CSS3 or JQuery UI just yet.. for now it’s a minimalist space to show my recent work.

Skills

• Front End Web Development
• (X)Html & CSS to W3C/WAI standards, Html5, CSS3 and Media Queries for Responsive Design
• I implement JQuery written by people more clever than myself. It’s my job to know which plugins are tried and tested and not to reinvent the wheel
• Adobe CS5 for web and print. I used to do print too, so I know the basics
• I’ve worked on projects that used the following: ASP.net, Drupal, Rails, Umbraco, Movable Type, WordPress. I therefore am familiar managing markup embedded in code, though I encourage keeping these layers as separate as possible and building out a static front end first wherever possible
• I also use MAMP and SVN / GIT
• I develop on Firefox with Firebug and Web Developer Tools, and test IE6/7/8/9 (Virtual Box), Chrome, Safari, Opera and mobile browsers as needed
• I’m very comfortable working in an Agile environment