LRC Redesign – One idea 
GIEL Redesign
GIEL Logo Iterations
InDesign Postcard
Outside of Work:
ARTCRANK Poster Preview – My first screenprint!
J2013
I’m baaack. After a fantastic experience studying abroad, I’m back at the STA program and I’m already working on some great projects.
Here’s a review:
What Jane Saw
- I am working with Nik and Ryan in getting the sprites completed for the painting rollover feature for all the rooms.
- Additionally, I will be in touch with Professor Barchas in the coming week about publicizing the project through advanced visualization technology.
Abriendo Brecha
- I am working with Hallie Boas of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Program in creating a flyer for the Abriendo Brecha Conference Keynote Speaker, Winona LaDuke.
- Progress
Second version to keep in stylistic language of existing work: http://ddce.utexas.edu/abriendobrecha/
January 14-28
Project: Government Feature
Supervisors: Suloni and Dr. Henson
Status: Waiting for feedback from Dr. Henson. When approved I can implement the feature in the Cascade server.
Project: InDesign Tutorial
Supervisor: Leroy and Suloni
Status: Complete
Project: What Jane Saw
Supervisor: Suloni and Ryan
Status: Ongoing; finished North Room East Side (NRES)
Description: I am updating the metadata so the lightboxes show the correct information and images.
Custom CSS Plugin
Project: Custom CSS plugin for Conferences site
Completion Status: 95%
Staff Guidance: Stacy
Descriptions/Plans:
Now that a theme was created for the Conferenes site, we had only one problem to address; what to do about the CSS. While someone might be able to go in and edit the CSS for their site the downside is, they’d be editing the theme’s CSS and thus editing it for every site! So, like any problem in WordPress, you either find or create a plugin to solve it.
With Stacy’s help, I was able to create a plugin that allows a user to edit the CSS for their site, without affecting the original theme’s CSS. So, many people can use the same theme, adjust what they need to, and not worry about editing someone else’s code.
Eventually, once I create a variable that’ll allow someone who doesn’t have Genesis installed to use it, it’ll be released into the wild.
Conferences WordPress Theme
Project: A custom Conferences WordPress Theme
Completion Status: 90% done
Staff Guidance: Stacy
Descriptions/Plans:
Over the winter break, I got to create a custom theme for the Conferenes site for UT. The purpose of the theme is to have a great looking site for all of the UT Conferences to use, while still be able to easily edit and use for any user, even if they don’t know one thing about WordPress. The theme was created using the Genesis framework. Below is the wireframe for the theme.
I then, with Stacy’s help, established where to put the widgetized areas and implemented them for the homepage.
Now the theme is live and reading to go, you can see it here:http://conferences.la.utexas.edu/theme/
Outside of LAITS
Another great part of a holiday break is being able to concentrate on non-school projects and help out friends. A local nerdcore rapper friend of mine Bad Barry needed to throw an impromptu photoshoot for some promotional material, and album artwork. With nothing more than a few dollars worth of Halloween masks from Goodwill and wandering around our neighborhood we settled on this photo for a show flyer:
