29 April 2008

• Koike’s Spanish site
  • Finished:
    • “Tweaking”
    • Updated the FLP quiz with more answer choices
  • Need to do:
    • Waiting for more content/approval?

01 April 2008

• Koike’s Spanish site
  • Finished:
  • New formatting to menu
  • Included questions to menu drop down
  • Need to do:
    • Add STAs to about page?
• Berlin
  • Finished:
    • Added map to Map page
    • Added PDFs to literature page
      • Still missing some pdfs, but I told Ran
    • Reformatting Scholarship and Resources pages
      • Changed backgrounds to page
      • Created anchor list to page
    • Reformatted History pages
      • Bolded all the dates
    • Added Credits page
    • Finished all videos
• Tag cloud
  • Talked to Geoff
  • Need to create counter/database

25 March 2008

• Koike’s Spanish site
  • Finished
    • Make changes to front page
    • Changes to tips page
  • Need to do:
    • Add STAs to about page?
• Berlin
  • Finished:
    • Added Scholarship page
    • Add PDFs to Scholarship
    • Added Resources page
    • Added History page
  • Need to do:
    • Add map
    • Add two more videos
    • Add PDFs to Literature?
• Tag cloud
  • Talked to Geoff
  • Need to create counter/database

18 March 2008

• Koike’s Spanish site
  • Finished all changes except…
    • Add STAs to about page?
    • Change quiz format to multiple choice?
    • Add some sort of separation for transcript and questions
• Cascade
  • More webpage building. Yay!
• Tag cloud
  • Talk to Peter?

4 March 2008

• Koike’s Spanish site
  • Done:
    • Take out “Howdy” in questions
    • Change interview titles to Interview 1, 2, 3, etc format
    • Remove town/heritage speaker
    • Change the formatting of opening page
    • Change wording in proficiency quiz
    • Change formatting on about site page
    • Move stuff from PROJECTS to WWW
  • Need to do:
    • Move About Site to bottom?
    • Remove show/hide transcript
    • Add some sort of separation for transcript and questions
    • Add page at end of questions to let user know that they’re at the end
• Berlin
  • Created Literature page
• Cascade
  • Learnt how to build webpage in cascade
• Tag cloud
  • Talk to Peter?

26 February 2008

• Berlin site
  • Added images to art pages
  • Added film clips and description to film page
    • Art
    • Film
• Koike’s Spanish site
  • Finish uploading transcripts
  • Need to do:
    • Take out “Howdy” in questions
    • Change interview titles to Interview 1, 2, 3, etc format
    • Remove show/hide transcript?
    • Add some sort of separation for transcript and questions
    • Add page at end of questions to let user know that they’re at the end

19 February 2008

• Koike’s Spanish site
  • Finish uploading transcripts
  • Need to do:
    • Take out “Howdy” in questions
    • Change interview titles to Interview 1, 2, 3, etc format
    • Remove show/hide transcript?
    • Add some sort of separation for transcript and questions
    • Add page at end of questions to let user know that they’re at the end
• Berlin site
  • Added images to Building pages
  • Created templates for the other sections
    • Berlin

12 February 2008

• Suloni’s inkpot
  • Finished
    • 

• Koike’s Spanish site
  • Finished formatting
  • Need to upload
• Berlin site
  • Adding images to Building pages
  • Resized all Building images and created thumbnails
    • Reichstag page
  • Creating the other sections pages
• Research tag clouds

5 February 2008

• Pangle’s site
  • Made corrections to site
  • Link
• Koike’s Spanish site
  • Need to finish transcript formatting
• Research tag clouds

03 December 2007

• Rebecca Lewis’s site
  • Made design changes
  • Adding content before she leaves for Madagascar
  • Link
• Koike’s Spanish site
  • Finished quiz
  • Still need to finish transcript formatting

26 November 2007

• Rebecca Lewis’s site
  • Working on site compatibility
  • Waiting for more content
  • Link
• Koike’s Spanish site
  • Finished 26 out of 28 transcripts
    • Formatting
    • Matching
  • Still need to do quiz
• Layout Design Meeting
  • Met with Lindsay and Stephanie
  • Discussed layouts we can use

19 November 2007

• Persian Site
  • Finished cleaning code
  • Finished sound clips
• Rebecca Lewis’s site
  • Added all the content that I have so far
  • Waiting for more content
  • Link
• Koike’s Spanish site
  • Finished 24 out of 28 transcripts
    • Formatting
    • Matching
  • Still need to do quiz

12 November 2007

• Walk-In Texas Theory Wiki
  • Walk-in students
  • Worked a long time to troubleshoot
  • Taught her to use Dreamweaver and troubleshooted code problems
  • her site
• Persian Site
  • Working on cleaning the code
  • Added sound files
• Rebecca Lewis’s site
  • Coding the layout completely
  • She sent me more content to include in site

29 October 2007

• Rebecca Lewis’s site
  • Coding the pages
    • CV, fieldwork, etc
    • Waiting for her to approve the layout design and make changes
• Koike’s Spanish site
  • Updating site
    • Matching transcripts to interviewees
    • Still cannot find input quiz page, make own?
    • Need to organize interviews into correct groups

22 October 2007

• Rebecca Lewis’s site
  • Made layout
  • Started coding the content for the pages.
  • Waiting for Lewis’s and Suloni’s approval

• Koike’s Spanish site
  • Updating site
    • Changes to suggestions page
    • Adding changes to foreign language proficiency page
    • Need to add quiz questions to FLP
    • Adding transcripts for the site
  • Waiting for more content from Koike
• COLA English site
  • Fixed Bonnet lady picture
  • Fixed White Dress lady picture

15 October 2007

• Rebecca Lewis’s site
  • Met with Professor Lewis
  • Gave me content to put on site on a CD.
• Persian site
  • Adding audio file links to the underlined words.
  • http://dev.laits.utexas.edu/persian_online/intermediate/demoadjpronoun/index.html
• Koike’s Spanish site
  • Updating site
    • Changes to suggestions page
    • Adding changes to foreign language proficiency page
    • Need to add quiz questions to FLP
    • Adding transcripts for the site
    • Still need to change headings to the site
• COLA English site
  • Fixed shadow in the books image. Updated the header.

8 October 2007

• Professor Pangle’s site
  • Site updates finished!
• Professor Brownlee’s site
  • Met with Brownlee. Adjusted layout and fixed minor details.
  • Site is finished!
• Koike’s Spanish site
  • Sent me transcripts to update site
• COLA English site
  • These are the finished images

1 October 2007

• Brownlee’s site
  • Site changes are finished!
• Professor Pangle’s site
  • Still updating site and CV.
• COLA English site
  • Continue retouching photos and insert them into layout.
• Koike’s Spanish site
  • Meet with Prof. Koike and update site with videos and transcripts.

24 September 2007

• Brownlee’s Site
  • Site works in PC: Firefox, Opera, Mozilla, IE and Mac: IE, Firefox, Safari
• Daily Intelligencer
  • Tested the music track
• Professor Pangle’s site
  • Update HTML CV and pdf CV.
• COLA English site
  • Manipulate splash images to remove, retouch the pictures.

17 September 2007

• Texas German
  • Fixed background.
  • Suloni’s latest design with Mai-Thi’s Texas icon

• Brownlee’s Site
  • Fixed layout
  • Still need to fix navigation

10 September 2007

This picture was made during the Wiki practice. Look, left-aligned images and captions!Look, left-aligned images and captions! Look, left-aligned images and captions! I have lost my voice — a great start to the beginning of the school year!

Here’s my awesome, amazing tile. It’s awesome because it says WU. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap. Text wrap.

• Texas German
  • Need to clean up HTML code, and design tweaking
  • Possible designs:

• Brownlee’s Site
  • Need to fix code so that site displays properly on IE for PC

How it looks in IE

How it should look

Old Updates

Happy now, Lindsay?

November 28, 2007

• sent an email to professor about updates.
• using photoshop to edited UTmarks.
• Working on the footer marks.
• Talk to Stephanie about developing web site templetes.

Novermber 11, 2007

• working on the header “University of Texas at Austin”
• working on ITS Logo

UPDATES ON IRON AGE CELT

Image maps are done

draft

November 4, 2007

• SERVER WAS DOWN SAT. AND SUN.

Talk to Suloni about the home page

• Working on the background.

October 28, 2007

• met with Constanze on Thursday
• Fix spelling errors on the web site.
• Almost done with the image map on Hochdorf
• HomePage Theme Cloud – displaying correctly so far on firefox & Safari.

October 21, 2007

• All images are now displaying.
• Waiting for a reply from Constanze about meeting this week?

   *Links & Spelling   *Image map links.  What areas of the map does she what link on Hockdorf.

October 17, 2007

• Sent Constanze an email on updates that have been made.
• Majority of images that were not display are updated.
• Still need to fix spelling errors and links.

October 7, 2007

• Renaming images that have uppercase letters to lowercase letters
• Checking links work properly.

If you need something to do let me or Gary know.

September 30, 2007

Project: Iron Age Celts
Meeting with professor on Tuesday @ 2pm

draft

Tag Cloud

• working on banner – University of Texas at Austin
• Background??
• difference in look on different web browsers?

September 22, 2006

Project: Iron Age Celts — Work on the home page

• Began writing code for the tag cloud.

About the html & CSS code

• Using the unorder list to created the different link that will surrounding an image.

• link1

September 16, 2007

Project: Iron Age Celts

• Continued working on mock up draft of website.
• Worked on Tile.
• Organizing my Wiki.

Before

After

Part-II – Iron Age Celts home page

Use hmtl & CSS
Professor be able to add addition links.
| my tile

September 14, 2007

Project: Iron Age Celts

• Finishing mock up draft of website
• Work on word document with list changes to suggested

Before

After

4/29-5/6 –

4/21-4/28 –

4/9-4/21
-presentation stuff
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3/31-4/8

Unfortunately the computer in the corner crashed when I stepped out for a few minutes this weekend. I hadn’t saved 🙁 I would have been further on the painting.

Berlin Icons: This was the first project that I used Illustrator. Because I did not know Illustrator well, I approached the images timidly creating icons that were not very powerful. With the guidance of Suloni, I was able to redo the icons and make them bolder and easier to read. The Berlin Icons were certainly a helpful stepping stone for the MedTerms project.

ASL Online: For this project, I learned to use Fluid Mask. This program helped me to quickly and easily remove the backgrounds of the pictures of hands.

Medical Terminology: I learned a lot about illustrator while being immersed in the drawings of the three MedTerms images. I received input from Michael and Marissa who helped direct me towards efficiently conquering the complicated parts of the images when I felt overwhelmed. I definitely think this project has increased my skill and efficiency in Illustrator.

COLA Banners: For the CAAS site, I noticed that a big part of the program is Yoruba Studies. I looked for images representing the Yoruba culture and found a person dancing wearing a mask. I drew the mask and realized that my image did not reflect any aspects of African American culture so I added a jazz musician to balance the content of the image.

3/25- 3/30

STA Presentation:

Berlin Icons: This was the first project that I used Illustrator. Because I did not know Illustrator well, I approached the images timidly creating icons that were not very powerful. With the guidance of Suloni, I was able to redo the icons and make them bolder and easier to read. The Berlin Icons were certainly a helpful stepping stone for the MedTerms project.

Medical Terminology: I learned a lot about illustrator while being immersed in the drawings of the three MedTerms images. I received input from Michael and Marissa who helped direct me towards efficiently conquering the complicated parts of the images when I felt overwhelmed. I definitely think this project has increased my skill and efficiency in Illustrator.

3/18-3/24

More Rhet&Writing Banner:

worked on Humanities Banner:

3/2-3/17 worked on Rhetoric and Writing Mockup:

2/25-3/1 worked on COLA icons:

image for Rhetoric and Writing:

2/18-2/24

2/11-2/17 -More hand cutouts. (See last week).

-Begin African Center Mockup

2/4-2/10 Learn Fluid Mask and use it to cut out ASL hands.

1/28-2/3

-Using Julio’s ASL prop and color palette, I worked on a cup in illustrator to practice gradients and lettering:

-watched many flash tutorials. Attempted some flash tutorials. Couldn’t get button to fully work. Got the other one to work, but I pretty much just copied the script from a tutorial, and I don’t know what the lines of script really mean.

1/21-1/27

ORIGINAL->

12/3-12/18

ORIGINAL->

11/27-12/2

-Mine

11/19-11/26

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11/12-11/18

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11/4-11/11

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-original:

-illustrator:

10/29-11/4**Server down all weekend, so I couldn’t finish my hours

10/23-10/28

10/15-10/22

Fixed More Cola Banners :

10/8-10/14

Berlin Workshop icons:

First Try:

Second Try:

More Cola Banners:

Oct. 7

Original Images Banners

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Oct. 4- Lab Hours

Oct. 1–Meeting–

Sept. 30

Sept. 27

Sept. 24

–Meeting–

Sept. 22

Sept. 20-Lab Hours

Sept. 19

Sept. 17

–Meeting–

Sept. 16

Sept. 15

Sept. 14

(I increased the weight of the stroke for the purposes of the wiki).

Sept. 13-Lab Hours

Sept. 10-–Meeting–

—after meeting—

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Sept. 5-–Meeting–

-Finished tile:

Task Sheet | Just Call Me Dino-Danni

01 April 2008

• James Cox
  • Emailed which site he likes, need to modify and re-show
• Katie
  • Gave her finished sites
• Pangle
  • Created mock
• Phonology
  • Fixing Catalan pages

25 March 2008

• James Cox
  • Mocked up sample sites
  • Created icons
• Katie
  • Finished incorporating all three versions of site into one
  • Meeting with Katie on Thursday rescheduled for today
• Pangle
  • Set up meeting for today to discuss site

18 March 2008

• James Cox
  • Mocked up frame of site
  • Meeting with James today to discuss site and get content
• Katie
  • Finished incorporating all three versions of site into one
  • Meeting with Katie on Thursday to show and exchange site
• Phonology
  • Created/fixed pages for Catalan section

Notes: Lawdem protected site

04 March 2008

• James Cox
  • Researched for images for inspiration for site from web and CDs
• Katie
  • Met with Katie
  • Updated fixes she wanted
  • Meeting again this week to discuss changes and exchange website
• Flash
  • Played around with Flash

26 February 2008

• James Cox
  • Played with color options
  • Will mock up some designs
• Katie
  • Finished both sites
  • Meeting set up with Katie on Thursday to discuss site

19 February 2008

• James Cox
  • Had meeting to discuss what he wants
• Katie
  • Created “movies go to war” site

James cox reference site

• http://www.utexas.edu/depts/cmas/students/index/
• http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/cwgs/giving/
• http://www.nah.uiuc.edu/
• http://www.instituteofnativeamericanstudies.com/

What I need to do

• Katie “movies go to war” site
• Katie “immigrants movie” site
  • http://www.utexas.edu/courses/arens/
• Update Brinks website
• James Cox site

05 February 2008

• Katie Site
  • Fixed site problems
  • Inputted rest of content
  • Need to do other site first, first priority
• Phonology
  • Updated content
  • Loaded onto staging
• Brinks
  • Moved content around
  • Need access to folder to update coding

29 January 2008

• Katie Site
  • Started to code site
• Phonology
  • Fixed color problem between browsers
  • Fixed border problem around tables

12 December 2007

• Katie Site
  • Have finalized mock choices
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 

03 December 2007

• Phonology
  • Fixed problems and loaded into staging
• Katie Site
  • Created more mock layouts for site

19 November 2007

• Katie Site
  • Created more mock layouts for site

11 November 2007

• Katie Site
  • Created different mock layouts for site
• Phonology
  • Finished a page for Turkish

05 November 2007

• Katie Site
  • Finished the foundation of the coding for each page
  • Finished home page
• Mai-Thi tutorial
  • Server was down so had html tutorial with MT

29 October 2007

• Katie Site
  • Had meeting with her on Friday
  • She likes the 2nd design and does not see a need for the splash page
  • Discussed what she needs for the site and how she wants things laid out
  • Started coding for site

22 October 2007

• Marissa tutorial
  • learned illustrator genius
  • 
• Phonology
  • Created more Turkish pages

15 October 2007

• Katie Site
  • Created mock ups of potential design
  • 
  • 
  • 

07 October 2007

• Phonology
  • Fixed tiny problems with the site that arised with Megan
• ASL Online
  • Looked into free counter
• Leal website
  • Met with professor Leal to demostrate how to edit his website
• Katie Websites
  • http://www.uemitoezcan.com/
  • http://www.artstar.dk/
  • http://iso50.com/iso50.html
  • http://www.kalou.ch/fr/

http://www.utexas.edu/courses/arens/

01 October 2007

• Phonology
  • Finished off subnavigation for Turkish section
  • Everything is linked correspondingly
• Leal website
  • Met with professor Leal to demostrate how to edit his website
• Katie Websites
  • http://bobbianchini.com/
  • http://www.tiltdesignstudio.com/
  • http://www.joomza.co.za/
  • http://www.fullyillustrated.com/index.htm
  • http://www.darinka.sk/index.php

24 September 2007

• Phonology
  • Met with Megan to discuss Turkish portion
    • Discussed heading conventions, table modifications and what she could do
  • Worked on creating side navigation
    • Created navigation for Kinywarwanda
      • Cleaned up links and made sure they were linked correctly
      • Got rid of all the Korean links
    • Started navigation for Turkish
  • Started subnavigation for Turkish

17 September 2007

• Phonology
  • Updated credits page
  • Changed layout of main pages
  • Working on new navigation layout
• ASL Online 2
  • Updated Staging folder
  • Emailed Frankie about updates
• Leal Website
  • Updated changes
  • Setting up meeting with Leal for basic html tutorial

10 September 2007

• Tile
  • Created tile for Suloni
  • Say hello to Jellybean
  • 
• ASL Online 2
  • Converted images to .png
  • Created sections 13 & 15
  • Uploaded icons for each section
  • question: order of icons, naming of each section & icons for hover on main page
• Phonology
  • Worked on credits page

05 September 2007

• Worked on image for Vietnamese class
• Played with Illustrator to make credits page

28 August 2007

• My icon.
  • 

30 April 2007

• Leal Site
  • Had meeting with Professor Leal
  • Started work on his website
• Casella Site
  • Met with Casella on what he wants for his website

23 April 2007

• ASL Site
  • Unit 17
    • Uploaded images to site and staging
  • Unit 16
    • Uploaded unit 16 items to staging
    • Fixed problems with video

16 April 2007

• Wiki Site
  • Created my page
• Phonology Site
  • Renamed Turkish sound files
  • Linked Turkish sound files
• ASL Site
  • Unit 16
    • Fixed linking problem
  • Unit 17
    • Tired to create PNG icons

09 April 2007

• Josh Flash Assignment
  • Tried to create the flash project Josh gave us
• Wiki Site
  • Messed around with the Wiki site
• ASL Site
  • Unit 16
    • Uploaded the page onto staging
    • Linked video and images
  • Unit 17
    • Uploaded vocabulary to each video

Main | MrDrMuffin.com | My Calendar | Contact

April 22, 2008

• LawDem
  • Graph Builder
    • Got images working
    • Structured XML for multiple graphs
    • Enabled the ability to use multiple graphs, wrote simple test program
    • Researched the use of flex for future projects

April 8, 2008

• LawDem
  • Graph Builder
    • Started adding picture element
    • Cleaned up XML
    • Met with Brinks, came up with new idea: Graph Suite
      • Combines multiple graphs / teaching tools into a single flash module.
      • Still built through XML, but XML will be built through another interface (no programming for the end user)
      • Implementation of many types of graphs
      • Possible further use to make learning modules that contain other information
      • Hardcore
  • Democracy Movie
    • Deleted the almost triangle on the start button
• Possible Graph/Learning Module thing interface

April 1, 2008

• LawDem
  • Started graph building program
  • Define graph through XML, and it is built automatically in flash
  • Can change width of graph, number of data categories and bars per category, titles,

March 25, 2008

• LawDem
  • Democracy Movie
    • Finished Suloni’s design
    • Implemented tabs using a combination of buttons and movie clips
  • Next Graphs
    • Started working on new graph structure in AS3
    • Fixed width for countries, makes it easier to reuse code.

March 18, 2008

• LawDem
  • Started implementing Suloni’s design.

March 4, 2008

• LawDem
  • Changed some code so that the start date can be set through XML
  • Changed the code for the text so it’s easier to change outside Flash (year ranges, rather than year by year)
  • Finished commenting the code I’ve done so it’s easier to understand
  • Added comments to the XML for easier editing
  • Consolidated XML to one file
  • Added a pseudo-preloader (a full one isn’t needed)
  • Reduced size of code to make things more efficient
  • Added all countries to the XML file (even countries with no data)
• Reading Between the Lines
  • Fixed some alignment issues
  • Fixed some coloring in one of the poems
  • Fixed some link locations and transitions
• FLASH TIP OF THE WEEK
  • Always explicitly define the type of your variables ( using var variableName:Type;). If you don’t flash will assume a type and promote at will, which can cause weird errors in your code.

February 26, 2008

• LawDem
  • Fixed color changing in islands of Chile and Argentina
  • Added a slider to quickly run through years
  • Started converting all of the user preferences to xml (number of years, duration to stay on a slide, etc.)
  • Added a legend

February 19, 2008

• Reading Between the Lines
  • Fixed old errors and formatting
• LawDem
  • Finished changing colors of all countries

February 5, 2008

• More Democracy Movie
  • Fixed many bugs
  • Added timer rather than counter, makes updating quicker
  • Fixed scrool bar issue
  • Started fixing map
  • Fixed formatting
  • Conned Mai-Thi into building the color.xml file

January 29, 2008

• Worked on Democracy movie
  • Fixed loading of colors
  • Added text loading
  • Added scroll bar to the text
  • Fixed buttons

November 26, 2007

• Help David with SOMS
• …..
• Profit

November 19, 2007

• Song of Myself
  • Fixed all searching problems
  • Hacked together some test timing arrays to fix some text issues
  • Fixed the page numbers after using the bookmark page and line searches
  • Fixed the infinite loop in the line search
  • Now all bookmark searching displays as it should
• Flash Group
  • Spent some time researching AS3 for teaching the flash group and for using in future projects.
  • Went over XML basics, and how to use XML in flash
  • Created a favorite movie list example in AS3 using XML

November 12, 2007

• LawDem Movie
  • Discussed design with Corinna
  • Started setting up the XML documents to load in the text
• Song of Myself
  • Fixed bookmark input boxes
  • Fixed searching
  • New problem with the rendering after searching

November 5, 2007

• LawDem Movie
  • Came up with design with Suloni
    • “Good artist copy, great artists steal”
    • Adapting the LawDem website layout
  • Talked about the movie at the Flash Group Meeting
    • Detailed how the project would be carried out
    • Corinna is helping me with making it
    • Discussed the differences in an animation vs programmatic approach to the movie
• Song of Myself
  • Looked at more code to understand it
  • Identified the issue with bookmark searching, looking into the best solution
• RenFest
  • Ate a lot
  • Saw some shows
  • Played with weapons
  • Became “King of the Log”
• Server Breakdown
  • Taught Mai-Thi some flash
  • Dreamed about being a pirate

October 29, 2007

• LawDem
  • Starting new phase of the project: Flash video thing
    • Taking pictures that were given and redoing the video that he has in Flash
    • Adding control features, rollover text, etc.
    • Possibly redoing the slides to make it look better
    • If anyone is bored and wants to help let me know
  • Graphs:
    • On hold for now
    • Poverty graph finished
• Leaves of Grass
  • Helping look through and understand the code
• STA Frontpage
  • Finished it
  • Redoing it?

October 22, 2007

• LawDem
  • Made another version of the buttons
  • Reorganized the stage
  • Made the code more efficient
    • Combined methods
    • Deleted old methods
    • Code has been reduced by 160 lines
• STA Frontpage
  • Updated the pictures
  • Added new “sun rises” effect using actionscript tweens
  • More code optimization, reduced the number of items using actionscript to reduce code size

October 15, 2007

• Worked on new buttons for the Lawdem charts
• Worked on the STA frontpage

October 8, 2007

• Flash group meeting recap
  • Quick meeting, discussed some syntax for programming
  • Looked at some interesting aspects of Adobe Illustrator
  • Took a tour around the ASL website and brainstormed ideas on how to do it in flash
  • Looked at some tutorials on flash development
• LawDem Charts
  • Made some more functional buttons
  • Started making it look better
• STA Frontpage
  • Done with first version

October 1, 2007

• Flash group meeting recap
  • Went through basic actionscripting example:
    • Moving to mouse
    • Dynamic text
    • Programming basics
  • Next week I need to go over basic programming syntax
• LawDem Charts
  • Worked on color pallette
  • Started converting the poverty line graph
    • Added all data in
    • Got the data to display properly after adding functions
    • Wrote new functions to deal with the 3 bars for each country
    • Fixed sorting function to make it easier to reuse for 3 different bars
• STA Frontpage
  • Started working on flash
  • Ran into problems converting the items in photoshop to flash, fixed
  • Finished a few of the rollovers, more to come this week

September 24, 2007

• Fixed bug with graph updating
• Added comments to the program to make it easier to understand
• Added a relevance field for each bar, added a function to only show relevant information
• Wrote code for data to follow mouse, just in case

September 22, 2007

• Worked on graphs in flash
  • Added different sorting options (using a basic insertion sort)
  • Found a bug dealing with updating the graph too quickly, looking for fix (Standardizing times for the tweens?)

September 21, 2007

• Worked on a test graph to try out some ideas
• Finished the feminist track for the Daily Intelligencer
• Had the first Flash Group meeting
  • Discussed everyone’s proficiency with flash
  • Talked about some of the projects that have been assigned in flash
  • Got ideas for next meeting
  • Showed off some actionscripting

September 17, 2007

• Weekly STA meeting
• Helped Lindsey more with flash Japanese slide-show things

September 15, 2007

• Corrected audio for Japanese flash video thing and then added that into the flash
• Documented more ideas for the graphing
• Found templates for the graphs online to adapt to what is needed

September 14, 2007

• Lab hours
• Found more bugs in the DI site
• Finished the movies track on the DI site, only 3 more to go
• Found a wiki page rating system for the lawdem wiki
• Started looking at graphs to decide on different ways to improve them, ideas written and stored on server
• Worked on one of the Japanese Flash slideshows, just need a button to use as a play button to finish

September 13, 2007

• Edited my banner, put on the new version
• Found some interesting new errors in the Daily Intelligencer site, recorded through email
• Met with Dan about the lawdem site
  • Graphs are to be redone in Flash to improve:
    • Readability
    • Relevance
    • Ease of use
    • Flexibility in which information the user can view (specific countries vs whole graph)
    • Possible rollover information for exact numbers from the data
  • Need to find a wiki plugin for rating the usefulness of a page
  • Redo the spread of democracy over time video in Flash:
    • Add forward and back buttons to step through the years, as well as play to just progress through
    • Add rollover and/or highlighting for countries to see the relevant information on that country for that year. Either a rollover with a text box or a dynamic text box on the side that follows the selected country.
    • Add a general information box at the bottom to describe what’s going on in the region in general
  • Add general country information to graph on front page (click on the country and a separate information window pops up, examples spread throughout site)
  • Work on issue about best way to password protect the files (Talk to Gary about this) so the general site can be opened up
• Work on Japanese flash project when the folders go yellow

September 11, 2007

• Searched for bugs on the Daily Intelligencer teaching tool. All bugs recorded in email.
• Added a contact page so people can get a hold of me easily.

September 10, 2007

• Be mindful of image size vs monitor resolution, just because it looks good on the computer you create it on doesn’t mean it will on every other computer. Resize the banner to be more compatible with smaller resolution screens. On here you can use the percent width command.
• Tile finished

September 9, 2007

• Learned a valuable lesson: Norton adblocking is very sensitive, so including any links or pictures with the word banner in them will block them from your site, as evidenced by the numerous changes made to the site tonight. Remember in the future to be careful with file naming, and to double check everything after it’s been changed to make sure it’s not destroyed by Norton.

September 5, 2007

• Assigned to work on flash for lawdem
• Finished the tile, used the same tree as from my website
• Need to brush up on css

August 28, 2007

• Site has been created!
• I’m not sure what to write here