Jessica Schouten

Work

G-W Learning Companion Website

Challenge: Reconfigure G-W Learning Companion Websites as a responsive site. Must accomodate existing assets. While you're in there—make it more accessible Solution: Utilizing new graphics created by a coworker, new CSS featuring media queries, and more accessible markup, hand code a site that gracefully expands with screen width. Utilizes: HTML, CSS3, media queries, responsive design, XML, JavaScript, jQuery, JSON (for the home page)

G-W Learning home page screen shot — Live Site: G-W Learning Home
Live Site: Example Companion Website

Bunny Game

Challenge: Design and create an easy-to-play game. Demonstrate skill with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Solution: Create such a game featuring collision detection, and jQuery animation. Add bunnies for cuteness. Utilizes: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery

VentureMark, Inc.

Challenge: Create an online portfolio for VentureMark, Inc. Must work with Internet Explorer 6. Solution: Create a simple, subdued site that really lets the properties shine. Make the site responsive to make it easily viewable on mobile devices. Utilizes: HTML5, CSS3, media queries, fallbacks for older browsers

IAM Responsive Redesign

Challenge: A site with tons of content needed to become responsive to fit the average student's use. Solution: Team project. I was responsible for writing HTML, CSS, and jQuery. Utilizes: HTML5, jQuery, CSS3, media queries.

About

Jessica Schouten is a front-end developer in the Greater Chicago Area.

She hails from the southwest suburbs of Chicago, where she lives with her fluffy bunnies. She is inspired by rabbits, old things, the quest to be self-sufficient in everything, and the evolution of consumerism through the 20th and 21st centuries.

She earned a Professional Certificate in Web Accessibility Compliance from a program run jointly Media Access Australia and University of South Australia and completed her BA in Interactive Arts and Media at Columbia College Chicago. At Columbia, she developed skills in web development, digital art, design, photography, and writing about herself in the third person.

When not at a desk in front of a glowing rectangle, she can be found walking around with a camera in hand, wandering the aisles of a hardware store, or harvesting ideas for sewing projects.