Newest Projects
Python updating a large number of files
While trying to get more practice with Python I look for projects or find things and think how could I do this as a program. They might not be the most exciting or useful but they help in learning more elements to Python. They also help me build up a coding library so...
Moving WordPress to new limited server – Working notes
These are quick instructions written, mostly for me. But somebody with a more than basic understanding of how WordPress works and that knows basic trouble shooting should be able to follow along. If you’re not fully comfortable with WordPress it’s advised to contact...
Python Certificate
Earned certification from Free Code Camp on Scientific Computing with Python. This involved going through lessons and creating 5 Python programs: Arithmetic Formatter: https://replit.com/@amacher/boilerplate-arithmetic-formatter-1 Time Calculator:...
Cloud Computing
As we seen in the above cartoon there can be some confusion over what is ‘the cloud’ and how it works. Such as how Bob, the slightly balding manager in the cartoon, thought the data was up in an actual cloud. I’ve wrote up a basic description of what is ‘the cloud’....
Acrobat order form
Working with a non-profit organization for their yearly fundraiser, where they would go and sell fruit, meat, and cheese gift boxes. Due to the COVID we tried something different and created a fillable PDF that people can fill out their orders and email to the...
HTML5 Forms – Verification
Created a HTML form with verification using only HTML 5 and CSS code. With HTML 5 you don’t need to rely on JavaScript to do a lot of things that was needed in the past. These things would be to not submit if area was blank, that the elements are in the right format....
Visit Farmer City: Test Site
Visit Farmer City is a test website location that I use to work on website ideas usually for big projects. When doing these sample sites I give them a generic branding to not show who the customer is. Right now it’s being used to create an idea for a newspaper and not...
Illustrator Certification
Received certification in Adobe Illustrator from Eduonix. While I've been using Illustrator for years, it's always good to go back and go through classes. By going through new classes you can pickup what new features that have been added that you've missed or find...
JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures Certification
Earned certification from Free Code Camp on JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures. This involved going through about 300 hours of interactive lessons (write code into their program that checks if it's correct) and creating 5 JavaScript programs: Palindrome...
Roman number converter
While finishing up the JavaScript lessons in Free Code Camp we had to build a Roman numeral converter to take a number from 1 to 3999* and convert it to the Roman numerals. Spending some time with it I thought this would be a good program to create a web app. I...
Kelsey Zukowski’s Website Resign
During the Covid-19 shutdown we took the opportunity to redesign Kelsey Zukowski’s website. Before we had used a regular theme to get her site up and going. We took this time to dig in and design a new theme with the goal to bring it more up to date with today...
Turn Your Website to the Darkside
With the popularity of the dark mode which allows a user to change in operating systems, mobile devices, and included in several applications. The dark mode changes the system and apps to a dark background with a light text. With this being popular and customers are...
Homemade TP Overview of a Social Commentary Graphic
This isn’t a full description of how to create your own graphic like this. This write up came later in the creation process so only a few screen shots and notes were kept. This is more of an overview of how I worked on this project. Like most projects this began with...
Case Study Justin Beahm’s Website Redesign
Justin Beahm had three different web sites these sites included: his personal site; his production company, Reverend Entertainment; and his podcast, Justin Beahm Radio Hour. When it came time to redesign his personal page we decided to merge all three of his sites...
Trails of Crafts Website
Trails of Crafts is an online store for three relatives who are crafters. The name is based on their last name of Trail. The site is set up in a single WordPress install using software that gives each member of the website their own storefront. Having their individual...
Farmer City Outreach Website Redesign
Sometimes it is necessary to go through and bring a website’s design up to date either through changes to the site itself. But sometimes you need to change the design such as in the old site’s theme is no longer being supported. The theme is what controls the look of...
K&S Builta Website Redesign
Over time it’s necessary to refresh the look of a website. K&S Furniture/Builta’s site is one I created several years ago, which needed an update. The old site was set up using WordPress multi-site; this made each store its own separate website inside of one large...
Tip Calculator Programs
To keep in practice with programming, I looked up programming samples and seen the Tip Calculator as a sample project that showed up on several programming practice lists. I did some feature creep on the idea to include more items. This way it wasn’t the same tip...