Erik Vorhes

Current

• Freelance Web Developer at VSA Partners

Past

• Freelance Web Engineer at Arc Worldwide
• Freelance Web Developer at Tanagram Partners
• Lecturer (and graduate assistant) at Loyola University Chicago

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Education

• Loyola University of Chicago
• St. Olaf College

Connections

39 connections

Industry

Design

Websites

• My Portfolio
• My Blog
• My Website

Erik Vorhes’s Summary

I enjoy working with HTML, CSS, and jQuery, and think I'm good at what I do, especially when it comes to HTML and CSS.

When I design and develop web sites, my priorities, in no particular order, are accessibility, usability, and typography. I also do my best to develop according to the principles of progressive enhancement. This is (of course) because everything I do is an attempt to do justice first and foremost to content: otherwise, what's the point?

Erik Vorhes’s Specialties:

accessibility, HTML, CSS, Django, writing, editing, research

Erik Vorhes’s Experience

• Freelance Web Developer

  VSA Partners

  (Privately Held; Design industry)

  May 2009 — Present (3 months)

  Front-end web development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript. It'll cure what ails you! (Via Creative Circle.)

• Freelance Web Engineer

  Arc Worldwide

  (Public Company; PUB.PA; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  October 2008 — May 2009 (8 months)

  Front-end web development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript. It'll cure what ails you!

• Freelance Web Developer

  Tanagram Partners

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry)

  April 2008 — October 2008 (7 months)

  Contract work of all kinds, mostly HTML & CSS. I worked on sites whose back ends were typically developed using PHP and/or XML.

• Lecturer (and graduate assistant)

  Loyola University Chicago

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  August 2002 — January 2008 (5 years 6 months)

  (In the English department.)

Erik Vorhes’s Education

• Loyola University of Chicago

  MA , English , 2002 — 2007

  Activities and Societies:

  Cox Fellow, teacher

• St. Olaf College

  BA , English, ancient studies , 1995 — 1999

  Activities and Societies:

  literary arts magazine editor and contributor, collegium musicum, Eta Sigma Phi

Additional Information

Erik Vorhes’s Websites:

• My Portfolio
• My Blog
• My Website

Erik Vorhes’s Interests:

web development, typography, new media, writing, English, literature, books, hiking, bicycling, parenthood, language acquisition, theology, poetry, information architecture, textual studies, accessibility

Erik Vorhes’s Groups:

Chicago IxDA

•    Web Standards Design + Development
•    Chicago Front-End Web Developers

Erik Vorhes’s Honors:

Amber Gravett & David Tuma Book Scholar, 2006
James Charles & Dorothy Watters Cox Graduate Fellow, 2002 – 2006

Erik Vorhes’s Contact Settings

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