The STA page under LAITS was a bit outdated so I was tasked with updating and inserting testimonials onto the page. Here’s a mockup of what the completed page should look like that was done in Photoshop.

After Suloni approved the changes, I started making actual edits to the webpage through Cascade. Most of it was done pretty quickly although we did have to set up a YouTube page to upload the testimonials to.

Here’s what the webpage looks like now!

Once the STA page was done, we also decided to update the walk-page since the services we offer changed a bit. Here’s the mockup of the page.

This page was a bit more complicated due to the number of sections.

Completed page after edits.

To assist in preparing materials for a Russian class, we were given PowerPoints to reformat. Mainly backgrounds and animations had to be added, along with making sure all the colored text was uniform.

I completed two serializers for the API, which involved coding the models, creating serializers for the models, writing views using the serializers, and then finally hooking up the views to the desired URLs.

 

I’m still fuzzy on where exactly this project is going to go but it involves databases and APIs. So initially, I was told that I’d be writing a database in mySQL and using that database to better categorize the events that the COLA database handles. I watched a couple of videos over mySQL and created a database with all the required fields.

However, after doing this, we decided to switch to Python and Django. I’ve been familiarizing myself with Python and will complete a Django tutorial before starting to work on the actual API.

Recently, we were given a spreadsheet (of about 6 individual sheets) of various stock images that a professor needs for her class next semester. Some of the images are quite specific and hard to find, so in the case that happens, we collage two or more pictures together to get one picture that matches the description. Here’s a rough one I made (the description was people playing a Russian card game):

Obviously an actual picture used for the class would be more polished, but it’s always fun to see what oddities Photoshop can create.