Cascade Conclusion, Online Course Graphics, and the FOCUS Graphic

During the last week of July, I worked on the following:

Cascade Training: I finally concluded this assignment by adding icons within a custom layout and pull quotes. Figuring out how to format pull quotes with color and correct spacing was a bit of a challenge but Thuy helped me with my HTML code. Reflecting upon the Cascade training assignment as a whole, I’m proud of how much coding I was able to learn. Here are some screenshots of my final site.

 

I also started Online Course Graphics. Here’s the complete package I worked on in Style A. Something odd that I noticed is that the buttons and banners preview as different shades of green on my computer despite sharing the same hex code; I’m not sure what causes that to happen, as the graphics look same in color on my laptop :/

 

Lastly, I started drafts for the “FOCUS” assignment. The most promising idea that I will continue developing is the illustrated letters (on the top right). Although my first and initially favorite idea was the block letters (in the bottom left), I feel that it lacks potential since it doesn’t have any “UT” flair to it 🙁 Developing ideas for such an open-ended request has been kind of difficult, but I’m nonetheless excited to have this as my first illustration assignment.

 

Photo IDs, Banners, InDesign, and Cascade

I’ve been up to a lot recently, so here’s a big complication of my work from this week:

To start, I finally got around to creating a banner for my blog, as you can see above. I used Adobe Illustrator to create the simple leaves in the background, which complement my major and love of botany. And carrying over from last week, I updated speaker profiles and episode transcriptions for the podcast “Second Reading.” I also got the opportunity to edit more photo IDs.

 

 

Additionally, I also helped update a banner for the Class, RUS406. Suloni requested that I edit an old banner graphic with new text, and use that graphic in a new canvas page illustration created by Valerie.

 

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Yet another project that I worked on this week is Indesign training. This is probably the assignment that I had the most fun doing- as article layout is something I am already familiar with and thoroughly enjoy. Here are the final spreads; I’m quite satisfied with how the pages turned out.

 

And lastly, I’ve been continuing Cascade site training. So far I’ve learned to create three different types of tables. I used these HTML tables to create a new page on my test site, which features lofi music that I’ve been listening to lately. You can check it out here

 

Digital Monitor Backdrops

In addition to Cascade, I also worked on digital monitor backdrops this week. These are my final drafts for review. I don’t have much to say regarding this assignment, other than that I had a lot of fun exercising my photo editing skills in Photoshop. Also, this assignment makes me miss the campus- I hope it won’t be long before things return to normal and I can enjoy Austin again :’)

 

 

 

UT Box https://utexas.box.com/s/0c6vrvp7naqiinql9la7llbo167su9x5 -> all drafts

Cascade Site Training

This week I completed the “CMS Cascade Site Training” assignment on Basecamp. This is my final test site -> https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sta-8/ 

 

The assignment was probably *the* most difficult project I’ve worked on thus far, as I am not experienced with web design/editing. Furthermore, this was my very first time using Cascade. However, with Thuy’s help with the media player and navigation bar, I learned a lot from going through the KB instructions. It’ll be very exciting to use Cascade and the skills I’ve gained in future assignments!

 

Photo ID Training

Today I completed my basic photo ID training, which entailed editing and cropping photos for upload onto the COLA website. Here is my final work!

 

 

   

UT Box https://utexas.box.com/s/zarmkt3rvbnh481lcjhw5pftd43oo3m2

This training assignment helped improve my eye for portrait editing, and I had no issues uploading my edited images using the COLA web editor. I now feel much more confident continuing such projects in the future!