Project: COLA Website Refresher
Client /Prof: N/A (College of Liberal Arts)
Completion Status: Started August 25, 2021
Staff guidance: Michelle Vanhoose, Chris Rankin
STA team members: Ingrid, Adrian
description/plans: Get familiar with Pages and learn how to use it through trainings before ultimately using it for the COLA Website.
To be completed: TBD (long-term)

Hey everyone. This week I’ve mostly just been finishing up the last of my Pages trainings. I finished the 3 personal sites I made after they were deleted.

I also wrote the professional email that was sent to update my progress on my personal site and then started migrating some of the sites from the old CMS to this one. Here are a few of the sites below.

This week I started migrating actual pages and will continue to work on that.

Project: COLA Website Refresher
Client /Prof: N/A (College of Liberal Arts)
Completion Status: Started August 25, 2021
Staff guidance: Michelle Vanhoose, Chris Rankin
STA team members: Ingrid, Adrian
description/plans: Get familiar with Pages and learn how to use it through trainings before ultimately using it for the COLA Website.
To be completed: TBD (long-term)

Last week I mostly worked on the COLA Web Refresher, especially the personal site in Pages. I had originally made 3 sites, one about me, one about a dinosaurs (personal interest), and then an in depth page on the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Unfortunately, there was a bug in Pages that I happened to stumble upon, which was with the undo function, in which all 3 sites were replaced. Due to this, I had to restart all the progress I made, but at least I found a bug! I also met with Jake about the Epic Similes project, which was really interesting to learn about. Below are pictures of the two sites I was able to finish.

Hello, it’s Rahul. It’s been a very eventful week, from meeting my fellow STAs and other staff members to starting work. This week I’ve mostly been going through the WebDev trainings and getting familiar with the browser inspect tool as well as good website accessibility. Below are two screenshots of one accessible website (Billboards) and one inaccessible website (Yale Art).

Another training that I have done is the Web Browser Inspect Tool. In that training I utilized the inspect tool and changing some lines of HTML and CSS was able to manipulate the website, including changing images, font style, and size. You can see some of the changes below.

I have also attended the training for the COLA Refresh project and will began working on some of the trainings, including making a personal page.

Classes have also started this week so it’s been busy, but I’m sure it will all get settled into a rhythm soon. All in all, it’s going pretty well, and I’m excited to continue working on the COLA Refresh project.