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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)

 

Hey everyone. This week I migrated more COLA pages, mostly the language ones which were a lot easier to migrate than the tables. I also updated some of my previous pages with the tables using the HTML source code which made formatting look a lot nicer.

 

 

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)

 

I started working on the Blanton Website Migration and started migrating pages there as well. Blanton, as I’ve been told, is a massive project so I’m sure that there will be lots of work to do between COLA and Blanton. I also got to attend the STA Fall Welcome Back Party, which was a lot of fun as I got to tour the building and meet the other departments as well as make origami and buttons. Here’s a Blanton page that I worked on.

Ethics and Fairness Course Graphics

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Ethics and Fairness Course Graphics

This week I have been working on completing the Ethics and Fairness course graphics. Besides the studio backdrop, the course graphics a quite simple to put together.

 

 

 

Csms_CSEF_TitleCards

 

 

I also ended up creating a collage backdrop for this course when it wasn’t necessary. But I feel that is still looks really good.

 


 

Now I am currently trying to figure out what is the best backdrop version with a subtle design. Here are the different versions with the studio test.

 

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I personally like the darker versions better. I feel like they provided a great contrast for the professor. I feel like the design could be lowered in opacity to provide the more subtle approach.

 

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COLA Web Refresh Project

Work has continued on this project. I’ve been continuing client communication, specifically for the Academic Enrichment sites. All the CM STAs submitted the checks for understanding Google Form, so I’ll be calling Suloni today on Slack to discuss next steps.

Also, Crystal granted me access to UT’s Image Relay, a repository of UT photography used by University Communications for me to use for certain pages that need an image refresh (which is many pages).

Also, I created new buttons for the Maymester and Faculty Led Pages, as the program offerings have changed:

I also created a new banner for ASL on the Languages set of pages, trying to mimic the style of the original designer as much as possible

Before:

After:

HIS 314K PPTs

I reformatted another HIS315K ppt.

The Devil/Pirate Wears Prada

http://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2021/10/11/pirate-wears-prada/

Tasks on a Wednesday

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Miscellaneous Tasks

 

Today in the office I had a couple of random tasks I was jumping around and finishing. The first one when I logged on was reformatting the summer 2021 online course graphic to be 1920×1080 and have the test read “LAITS-Supported Online Courses” instead for Marla.

My next task after that was looking over the photo ID submission emails and special exceptions and make edits to the document to polish it up. I went in and only made suggestion edits so that they may be approved line-by-line first. I finished going through everything that was in the document so far.

Lastly, there was an issue with photo ids and where the uploaded photos were going. Someone made a box link submission and we could not find where it was going or who had access. I went in and made sure each accessible folder to everyone on the team had the cut-out images as well and crossed checked all the files to make sure who had theirs uploaded and edited and who didn’t.