Ronan Dowling

I was born in San Francisco, CA. When I was three years old I moved to Santa Barbara where I now live and go to school. My favorite class is History class, currently I am studying American History. In my free time I enjoy playing the sports that my school offers such as soccer, basketball, volleyball and flag football. Although, after a long day of school and sports I enjoy riding my bike and reading a good book.

I created this website with Gatsby, React, and Chakra UI.

The code is hosted on GitHub, and my website is deployed via Netlify.

To create websites like this, I needed to learn the basics of HTML, JavaScript and CSS. I chose to learn these skills for my 7th grade QED project. HTML is the language that is used to put content and images on the website, while CSS is what I used to customize their appearance and JS enables the interactive parts.

After learning the basics, I started learning React, Gatsby and ChakraUI which are basically tools built on top of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. They take care of some of the more tedious bits about web development and allow me to add more complex features to my page.

Throughout me building the website, I frequently save my code to GitHub which backs up my code on the internet. Every time I push a new update, my code is automatically deployed to my website by Netlify which talks to GitHub to get the new updates.