Psychology Forms

• recreating psychology dept’s web forms in preparation for their move to cascade
• the magic of pForm
• Automation Workflow: Excel Python HTML (example)

Meeting with Hans Boas

• got Hans up and running on WordPress
• after >1 year of emails, finally put a name to a face

Sociology Features

Persian Teaching Resources

• created new module for Persian Teaching Resources
• modified homepage to accommodate new content
• small teaks for (slightly) better usability

Outside The Lab

Persian for America(ns)

• creating a welcome page per the client’s request/li>
• still coding the ‘book’ pages
• next week: submit welcome page design for approval, then begin coding it

Economic Features

• published two new features to the Economics Department’s website, notified the client accordingly
• per the client’s request: I modified the graphic of an existing feature (replaced the photograph)

ConstitutionMaking.org

• had a consultation meeting with John Marsh on Thursday, discussed the client’s vision for the project
• received further details about the project yesterday via email
• will begin mocking search/discovery interfaces for proposal next week

Make YOUR Banner Interactive!

• I threw together a quick tutorial explaining how I made my the banner on my STA page “interactive”
• if you’re curious, or would like to achieve the same effect with your banner, check out the tutorial here: http://laits.utexas.edu/sta/nick/banner/

Persian for America(ns)

• Dr. Hillmann has given the greenlight on the “mint and apricot” design (shown above)
• Meeting with Mike tomorrow afternoon to discuss updates on the project
• Development Progress
• • made sprites for book icons (active,inactive,hover,click)
  • coding of basic layout is complete
  • this week: coding book navigation (accordion effect), implementing lesson material

Economics Features

• archived three Economics features into past features
• will publish two new features upon department approval

Flash Tutorial

• great introductory tutorial by flash and animation guru, John Moore
• learned the basics of the application
• three more tutorials on the way!

Persian for America(ns)

click me!

• finalized design
• two different color schemes
• initial coding has began, waiting for the professor choose a design

Sociology Features

• created a feature for the sociology departmentment: The Obamas and the New Politics of Race
• deleted another feature at the departments request

Faculty Publications: TESTING!

• began testing of the faculty publications web application
• scribbled my feedback on a napkin, gave it to Lauren

Persian for America(ns)

about the project

Created by Dr. Michael Hillmann, Persian for America(ns) will be an online collection of resources for learning Persian.

status

I’m currently in the process of finishing the design (below). After showing the design to Dr. Hillman, I’ll begin coding the site.

I’m using Google’s document viewer (pdf) and audio player (mp3) to present the PFA lesson material within the browser. Students will also be able to download the content for offline consumption.

Psychology News Migration

Preparing for the Psychology departments migration to Cascade, Kathy and I have been loading their legacy news and events into the COLA database.

As of now, all legacy news stories have been added to the COLA database.

TGDP updates for Dr. Hans Boas

I made a handful of updates to Texas German Dialect Project site.

*SPECIAL* Cinco de Mayo edition!

arriba.

….not much else

• meeting with Andre to discuss migrating Psychology news/events to COLA db
• school

cool thing.