Hi, I'm Toby Mackenzie, a beginning web developer in the Akron/Cleveland, Ohio area. After obtaining Associates degree in eBusiness management at Cuyahoga Community College, I got a job at Cogneato, a small web firm in Akron. There I do front-end development as well as some SEO and other tasks. I also am interested in doing some level of freelance work. I may work with designers Jason Rodgers and Nadia Ryzhkova on future projects.
I am skilled at programming and working with databases, as well as handling a number of other web related duties. I have experience working with these web technologies and applications:
- ASP
- MySQL
- SQL Server
- Photoshop/GIMP
- Apache
- *NIX administration
- BASH scripting
- JavaScript
- JQuery
You can read more about me on my about me page or LinkedIn profile. See some of the projects I've worked on at my portfolio page. Feel free to contact me, especially if you would like to hire me.
I also maintain a blog on Wordpress.com about various web development related things of interest. These are some of my recent posts:
12 Jul 2010 @01:24 AM
I’ve been using Piwik recently for my site analytic purposes. I added it to my “professional” site, which is served as XHTML 5 for anything but IE. On that site, no visits were registering, though awstats showed that there were visitors. As it happens, this is because the javascript “document.write” is not allowed in XHTML.
06 Jul 2010 @12:24 AM
[Update Synopsis] Since I’ve updated this many times, I’ll summarize: I’ve improved color support, now working for hex, rgb, and rgba at the beginning or end, re-added Nick’s text-shadow support while giving it the same color support as box-shadow, and added an “-ms-” prefix to target IE for these properties with (Last update 7/22/2010) [/Update]
30 Jun 2010 @08:15 PM
I made my first WordPress plugin today. It’s very simple and for my own site only: It adds the script bits for the Piwik analytics of my personal blog. It showed me just how easy it is to create a plugin in WordPress. Normally, for clients, I’d just add additional functionality in the “functions.php” file,
28 Jun 2010 @02:19 AM
Finally completed another Lynda course (see certificate). I’ve mentioned that I’m doing some SEO work at Cogneato, so I decided to go through a course on Lynda. I had started one a while back, but it was very long and on the old side (2006). There’s a newer, shorter one now entitled “SEO: Search Engine
28 Jun 2010 @01:44 AM
The design of the gallery portion of the David Hawkins site I’m working on at Cogneato called for a reflection of the current image below that image. This could have been done by making reflections for each image in an image editor and then adding them to a separate field in the CMS. That would
