Chris Wharton
Co-Founder at Ready Steady Websites®
Test Valley, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Wharton is a creative technologist and co-founder with 14 years of hands-on experience building highly customisable websites and digital experiences from Test Valley, England. As Co-Founder of Ready Steady Websites® and long-serving Creative Director at 2nd Floor Designs, he blends visual design instincts with front-end engineering to deliver polished, responsive templates and membership sites that clients own and control. His open-source contributions—such as enhancements to the popular meanMenu responsive plugin—reflect practical attention to UI details like multi-level navigation, animation and resizing bugs. A First Class BA in Time Based Media underpins his analogue-and-digital creativity, informing a pragmatic approach to design systems and UX. He’s equally comfortable leading studio operations or diving into CSS and JavaScript to solve tricky cross-browser interface issues.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BA Hons: First Class, Time Based Media, BA Hons: First Class, Time Based Media at University of the West of EnglandRomsey School
Github Skills (7)
css10
responsive-design10
javascript10
front-end-development10
jquery10
plugin-development9
user-interface9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
meanthemes/meanMenu
Oct 2012 - Sep 2013
A responsive menu plugin
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and responsiveness of the `meanmenu` plugin. Their contributions include improvements to the animation of the menu, adjustments to CSS for third-tier navigation, and adding a z-index for proper display. Furthermore, the user updated the demo file and incorporated CSS adjustments to address padding issues, adding support for up to five levels of navigation and fixing a bug related to resizing.
menujquery-uinavresponsiveresponsive-menu
cdwharton/cookieCuttr
May 2012 - May 2013
CookieCuttr - A tailorable jQuery plugin to deal with the EU Cookie Law
Contributions:25 commits in 1 year
dealjquerylawcookie-lawcookie
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