My Portfolio
Web Development
Refactored Website: Semantic HTML
A refactored website whose source code was modified to improve its operation without altering its functionality and to adhere to accessibility standards by using Semantic HTML. View on GitHub
Query Cuisine
A simple food app that allows users to search for recipes based on ingredients that they have on hand. View on GitHub
Book Swap
An application that generates book recommendations based on the user's search and allows a user to save books to a wishlist. View on GitHub
Workday Planner
A simple workday scheduler application that allows a user to save events for each hour of the day. View on GitHub
Password Generator
A note taker application that can be used to write, save, and delete notes. View on GitHub
Eat-Da-Burger
A restaurant app that lets users input the names of burgers they'd like to eat. Each burger name that is submitted will be stored in a database, regardless of whether or not the user clicks the Devour it! button. View on GitHub
Theater
Costume Design
The overlap between fashion history and emotion, or how a garment’s pattern, color, and texture can reveal a character’s emotions, personality, and subtext. My costume trademarks include the use of bold colors and simplicity in design. View more.
Directing
"In order to make them laugh you must understand what links us all together. Comedy is universal." View more.
Production Design
Senior Thesis in Production and Costume Design. View more.
Artwork
Oil
Georgia O'Keefe style. Simple subjects but high contrast. View works.
Graphite Pencil
Landscapes with surreal elements. View works.
Watercolor
Bioluminescence inspiration. View works.
About Me
My name is Dana Smooke but everyone calls me Danny (make sure to spell it like a boy's name!). I am 25 years old, and I graduated from Yale University with a double major in Theater Studies and Art History.
I first got a taste for web design after I took a summer course on Adobe InDesign and Photoshop. I loved being able to add my own style to professional looking layouts. When COVID-19 hit,the need for developers skyrocketed. It became clear that all schools would need to transition to some form of online teaching platform. I spent the summer converting my father's handwritten technical notes into PNG images by using LaTeX.I liked what I was doing and wanted to learn more.
When I'm not in the theater or behind the computer, you can find me working outside in the yard, doing a crossword puzzle, working out, cooking, or drawing political cartoons.
Technical Skills
Visual & Performing Arts
Web Design
HTML & CSS
JavaScript & jQuery
Node.js, Express, MySQL
LaTeX
Adobe InDesign & Photoshop