Hi, I'm Toby Mackenzie, a beginning web developer in the Akron/Cleveland, Ohio area. I recently finished attaining an Associates degree in eBusiness management at Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C). I hope to get a web-related job as well as work on some freelance projects. For freelancing, I will be working with designers Jason Rodgers and Nadia Ryzhkova. Since we are fairly new, we will all help each other enter this industry.
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:
28 Feb 2010 @04:36 AM
I’ve been playing with shortcodes in WordPress. They provide a nice way to allow the client to insert certain content without them needing to even deal with HTML, such as predefined pieces or wrappers with specific classes or structure. They are the only way to effectively run PHP functions from within a page
28 Feb 2010 @03:31 AM
I’ve had a site pulling one particular image from my site. It gives no referrer and the user agent “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0)”. It has the IP 76.73.76.130. I wasn’t sure what it was at first, and figured it might just go away. But it hasn’t and is asking for the
26 Feb 2010 @06:08 AM
As mentioned in a previous post, my site has gone to the HTML 5 doctype. I had come from XHTML 1.0 and wanted to continue with the XML syntax of HTML 5, but my site wouldn’t validate with the XML declaration. I recently remembered that I had been serving my site with the
25 Feb 2010 @01:28 AM
In building a website for a client, one usually builds clients, one usually builds a few mockups with different themes to give the client an idea of what the site will look like with one of a few options. They can tell the designer what changes they want, which can be made relatively easily
22 Feb 2010 @05:31 AM
I’ve completed another Lynda course, Web Accessibility Principles by Zoe Gillenwater. This course was well put together, had a lot of good information, and should be very usable, though it perhaps had a lot of repetition (to give a feeling of what screen-readers must go through?) and pacing issues. It also, perhaps due
