Pixel Art Training

 

I also was able to complete the pixel art training. Here are the results. Overall, this training was really fun. I learned how to use only a few colors to represent an object and find ways to still include depth in the image.

 

Cascade – Spring 2022 Online Course Schedule

 

Last week, I worked on the editing the spring 2022 online course schedule site. I was just instructed to make it look identical to the fall 2021 online course schedule.

 

I used some HTML and basic copy and paste to get the site where it needed to be. The only problem was trying to get the banner uploaded with only 200 KBs. I had to convert the banner to a jpeg instead of a png to get it to upload correctly.

 

 

This last week (more LRC flyer)

I haven’t had a ton of shifts since I last posted, but I’ve mostly been working on the flyer design advertising the Visiting Scholars Program at the Linguistics Research Center and the photo ID KB.

The LRC provided the copy (words) for the flyer, and well, it’s a lot. Our current proposal is to make a packet, seeing as each page is the regular 8.5 x 11 inch paper (mostly digital).

Photo ID KB progress

The photo ID KB revisions are almost done! This last week, I added:

• Photo submission guidelines
• A few exceptions to photo submission rules
  • Faculty photos with medical masks
  • Naval Science cropping to show medals for 200×300 photos
• What do to with photos that don’t meet guidelines, but might be good for the body of a faculty member’s profile page
• A separate KB article for email templates regarding all things photo IDs

Pages (COLA Web Refresh)

We’re about done with Phase II of the COLA Web Refresher Project, meaning the Dean’s COLA sites will soon be frozen and online soon. Most of the bare bones content migration was done, so I and the other CMSTAs spent a good amount of time QAing the various pages (checking for broken links, formatting or content areas, adding/editing alt text, low res graphics). I made some rather last minute edits to the College Leadership page, making sure at least the photos were there even if the specs weren’t perfect.

I can’t wait for the next phase of this project and am so happy to be part of such an efficient and capable team. The team will also burgeon — the last candidate for a CMSTA position is being interviewed next week, and after that decisions and on-boarding should begin.

 

HIS 314K

I did another powerpoint.

 

Photo IDs

More photo IDs! Responded to a request from Sarah regarding some IDs submitted a while back that got buried.

 

Web and Image Training for CMSTAs

In between more time sensitive tasks, I’ve been slowly but surely developing the web and image STA training (for Pages specifically). A lot of this is about photo cropping, exporting, etc. etc. that is crucial for the Pages CMS. I also want to see if we can find a user-friendly alternative to Photoshop for the end users who don’t have / don’t know how to use this program, so we’re not flooded with image resizing requests (Canva?). Anyway, I presented it to the LAITS and PR teams and plan on adding a section on file sizes and exporting.

 

Pirate

I got a new rug, with two rather abstract cat illustrations on it. Pirate and her brother were initially terrified by it, but it’s now one of her most favorite spots!

For the Ethics and Fairness CS course, they wanted a backdrop example that didn’t have symmetry or shape the professor’s face. They wanted the same color scheme, just those changes.

Here is the original backdrop:

Here are the draft additional backdrops I created:

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: Continue migrating data from the old CMS to the new CMS
To be completed: TBD (long-term)

This past week has also been a mix of migrating Blanton and COLA pages. I’ve gotten more used to WordPress and have made several galleries to insert into the Blanton Pages. COLA has also been going well and I’ve just been using more Pages features and things like that.

 

 

Project: Blanton Website Migration
Client /Prof: Blanton Museum
Completion Status: Started August 23, 2021
Staff guidance: Ruben Garza
STA team members: Asmita, Marianne, Angie, Abriella
description/plans: Work on migrating the current Blanton museum website pages to the WordPress site
To be completed: TBD (long-term)