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аватарка с фото автора Hi! My name is Val
and this is my portfolio

My Skills

HTML, CSS

I teach everything HTML/CSS, constantly follow the industry news and frontend technologies updates, try everything in practice, read specs and articles to understand the topic in depth.

JavaScript

I teach beginnings of JS in conjunction with DOM/CSS manipulations. I am actively studying vanilla JS myself.

Figma

Been working with a Figma since 2019. I made my own training template for educational purposes. Made other websites based on figma templates for courses and webinars. And worked with multiple other templates. Recorded a video "Figma for layout designers"

Photoshop, digital color and design

I've been working with Photoshop for many years since version 6 (not cs6, the first six:) I taught editor basics and in-depth about digital colors, creating templates and collages, photo color correction amd design principles.

Jekyll

This portfolio is built on Jekyll. Thanks to this, I learned static site generators, Liquid and npm.

One of my favorite topics, which I consider fundamental for any education and work. Created a lecture how to efficiently search info on frontend. I constantly teach students the importance of this skill.

Git/Github flow

I work with git (mainly via VS Code) and use Github Flow (checked homeworks in HTML Academy).

Education

I create frontend courses from scratch, including training materials (notes, graphics, presentations), develop effective education (simultaneous presentation of theory and practice, gradual increase in difficulty, using all available mediums). I work as an author of materials/teacher/tutor as well as course head creating overall education direction.

BEM

I began to actively study BEM for a job in Yandex Practicum and continued to use it in education projects. I learned a lot of new things, often not included in the official documentation.

Node.js/npm

Build tools (gulp, sass, esbuild)

CMS (Wordpress, Joomla, opencart)

Like many others, I once started studying web development and working with CMS. In addition to the obvious Wordpress, I worked in company that used Jumla and Opencart.

Web design, color correction, collages, UI design

My interest in all these topics led me to work in frontned and education.

English (speaking, writing, reading)

Being native Russian speaker I began to learn English at elementary school and then at university, although with varying success and different quality of education. After school I took additional courses. But I learned most of English by myself from movies, games, articles, books. And later at work reading english articles, books, blog posts on design and web dev. Now I regularly read frontend news and documentation in English.

Marketing, advertising

I used to Worked in marketing. I've always been interested in advertising and the importance of promoting your product or services. Even know I left that sphere I still use some of that knowledge for my own professional career.

Organizing and planning work

I interested in the importance of these topics when I realized that they are often the root of the problems of many failures, for individual specialists as well as products and entire companies. I've read a lot of articles and books on this topic. Тщц Ш develop ьн own approaches to optimal problem solving.

Writing and editing articles

I've been fond of writing on various topics for a long time. Now I always pay attention to the quality of texts on websites including student's works during the educational process.