About

Hi, my name is Zahra Ali. I am a self taught web developer and designer based in the UK. I enjoy making creative, user friendly and professional websites with cross browser and multi device compatibility. Scroll down to see some examples of my work and my blog!

Get in touch! You can find my contact details here.

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • PHP
  • WordPress
  • Bootstrap
  • jQuery
  • Git
  • MySQL
  • Web Design
  • Agile
  • Python

Portfolio

Usayd Younis Website

A personal website with a vertical split screen to highlight two different skill-sets. Makes use of responsive design, changing columns for different screen sizes and collapsing the main menu on mobile.

ILF Website

I created the website for The Iraq Leadership Fellows Program, the website aims to promote and showcase the leaders including popout videos and written bios.

Pythagorean Tree

This is a program written in javaScript to build and display an animated pythagorean tree. The tree responds to mouse movement, updating the number of iterations and the tree angles.

Eid Unwrapped Website

For a charitable project based in Manchester, this website aims to highlight and advertise their previous and upcoming campaigns to increase interest in the charity.

Blog

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Extend the customiser

The wordpress customiser can be extended to add more options to your theme, there are a few default options built into wordpress such as Homepage settings, Menus and Site Identity. When creating a wordpress theme it is likely that you would like your users to

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Customising the HTML of the WordPress nav menu

As a theme developer, often the need arises to create a highly customised navigation menu. This is a little tricky to do if the customisation involves more than adding classes or text to the navigation links.

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