KB Table of Contents

 

KB basic training

I made some updates to a basic training page in the LAITS Knowledge Base. The page is “Create Your Own Animated Gif,” and I basically just created a banner to go at the top of the page and added an introduction. I still might add a few things to the instructions to clarify some things or add more information, but I think the tutorial is overall more fleshed out than it used to be. Abriella is leading the project to update and add new basic trainings, so I’m posting on Basecamp to get approval from her on my edits.

Yesterday Suloni talked about featuring the basic trainings more prominently on the KB site, so I think we’re going to start making some changes to make that happen.

Here’s the page I’m talking about: http://sites.la.utexas.edu/kb/2020/02/04/create-your-own-animated-gif/

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More changes to the LRC mockup

The LRC clients sent me more text to add to the static mockup and had some translation corrections. They also requested I make a few more aesthetic changes. The main thing was they wanted the glyphs (the little bubble areas) to become a darker shade of green when they are selected (instead of a lighter shade like before). These will hopefully be the final images that they can use when they submit their grant proposal, unless there are more changes that need to be made.

The clients don’t seem very concerned about getting the actual interactive done, they mainly just need the static image ready to showcase. So I’m waiting to hear back if they want me to start creating the Canvasser interactive or not.

Page mockup with interactive for the LRC site

I just got a new assignment to create a mockup of a page for the Linguistics Research Center. They are submitting a grant proposal, so this mockup will be a way to showcase what one of there pages would look like with an interactive on it (the interactive is yet to be created).

So right now I’m working the static mockup to show the client for approval. I’m designing the interactive in Photoshop, then adding it to a screenshot of an LRC page to show what it will look like in context when you click on the interactive.

This is the image I was given to use for the interactive, they are Mayan hieroglyphics. They are divided into 8 “blocks,” and the blocks are subdivided into what are called “glyphs.” Each glyph represents a sound or a word, and so the block can represent a sentence or multiple sentences (I believe, I’m not a linguistic expert…)

And this is the static mockup that I sent to the client with 2 color options (purple and green). I’m waiting to hear back about the final text to use, but this is roughly what it will look like. When I get approval on the basic design of the interactive I will start working on building it in Canvasser so it can be added to their site. But the first priority is to get the mockup finished to meet their deadline.

 

Wrapping Up LACS

All 12 LACS career guides are now complete! I handed off the final files to the client who will be publishing them on her site.

This was my first time leading a project, which has been a learning experience for me. It ended up going more smoothly than I expected, which was nice.

Here are all 47 individual icons that we created in the process:

 

And the career guides:

LACS Progress

I’m currently working on wrapping up LACS in between RSS, which is the highest priority right now. All of the infographics I assigned are marked as done and the files are uploaded to Box, so I’m working on going through all of them to fix a few inconsistencies, making sure all the icons are same size, and updating the color palette.

Here’s what the final infographics are looking like:

 

I’m really happy with how they’re looking, and I’m excited to see the final versions up on the site. Once I’m done going through these, I’ll share them with the client to see if she’s also happy, or if there are any last changes she wants me to make.

More RSS Images

 

RSS Image Annotations

I don’t have a lot to add for this week, I’ve just been working on updates to the Knowledge Base website (see previous blog post) plus a new project to annotate images for the Remote Studio System (RSS) site. The images are instructional and provide information about lighting, audio, video equipment and training. Right now all the images have captions, and our job is to transfer the caption text to the image as annotations.

Here are some examples of images I’ve been annotating: