Hey! Glad you're checking out my site. My name is Brandon El Haj and I'm a Full Stack Developer based in Portland, OR. I think making websites and apps is an art form of endless exploration and creativity that amazingly enough you get to share with others. This love of craft is what led me to start a small web design firm dedicated to helping small businesses with their web presences and brands. I believe web development is a vehicle for creating a better world, one useful application or website at a time. I thoroughly enjoy creating unique user experiences combined with clean responsive aesthetics to make the internet a better place. I recently completed Thinkful's Full Stack Engineering program, which furthered my knowlege of application building by learning the PERN (PostgreSQL, Express, React, and Node) stack. It was great tackling problems and finding solutions with an awesome cohort of Web Developers. The paired programming taught me the excitement of collaboration and how to be a good team player. When I'm not coding you can find me playing soul music on my bass, exploring new restaurants in Portland, or walking my dog Rod.

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Know Your Gov is a civic informational tool where users can look up their elected representatives at the state and federal levels using an address. The full stack application utilizes the Google Civic Information API to deliver the elected representatives contact information. The responsive mobile first design allows users to easily contact their representative via phone, email, or through their website. Users also have the option of registering for the service and storing their address in the database to save their representatives information for future reference. Know Your Gov is a great way of getting in touch with your representatives!

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The Community Toolbox is an online tool library where users can find and rent tools for home improvement projects. The full stack application allows the user to create a profile for reserving tools and checking them out. When a tool is checked out the user is given instructions to the warehouse and how the pick-up process works. The user interface allows the user to quickly check a tools availability and to keep track of their checked out tools. The Community Toolbox is an excellent reservation resource for local tool libraries to feature their inventories online.

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The TripSpiration application relies on four APIs (FourSquare, OpenWeatherMap, Pixabay, Dark Sky) to inspire the user to travel to a particular city. The content is dynamically generated based on user input. When prompted to enter a travel destination they're curious about and their preferred travel month, the application returns a gallery of spectacular vistas of the city, current and projected weather conditions based on historical weather patterns, in addition to a list of popular local points of interest to visit. TripSpiration is here to help inspire your next trip!

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The Mac HotKey Quiz app is built for the Mac user who wants to test their HotKey knowledge and learn a few new tricks. The quiz runs through the most important HotKeys for operating your Mac computer. At the end of the quiz, the user receives their score and determines whether or not they need to study more.

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Pipsychiatry.com was created with the user in mind—super clean and minimal to make its navigation effortless. Portland Integrative Psychiatry specializes in the treatment of adult ADHD, so I decided to go the zen route with light earthy colors to make the user feel at ease. Loads of whitespace combined with magazine-style layouts creates a classic and timeless feel. Even threw in an infographic to make the important information easily digestible. Enjoy :)

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