Asmita Karmakar

Week 14

November 29, 2021 By Asmita Karmakar

Intro to Typography training:

Learned more about typefaces and their effect on design.

Some font pairings I thought were simple and cool:

I like the modern feel of Julius Sans One. To me it looks expensive paired with Archivo Narrow. I think its good for brand titles.

I like this pairing because it gives me a typewriter feel but there is a good separation between the two fonts. Usually in my mind titles are bold rather than thin but Montserrat in this example is the opposite. It’s thinner than Courier New but it works.

HTML/CSS training:

I spent a lot of time trying to animate the title text and do a wave. This is an example of something similar to what I was trying to do.

GIF

I am not very good at JavaScript so I tried making the animation with just CSS and still have not made it work :/. I did not want to spend anymore time on this training so I started others and I’ll revisit this later with a fresh mind.

Week 13

November 22, 2021 By Asmita Karmakar

This week I mainly worked on trainings.

HTML/CSS training:

I did a project earlier making a batman business card which flips when you click it.

Now I’m styling a New Girl script and focusing more on transformations with Javascript.

I also included a personal project. I’m working on the front-end of an app for an org I’m in so this is a little video of the work I’ve done in React Native.

Week 12

November 15, 2021 By Asmita Karmakar

Project: Blanton Website Migration
Client /Prof: Blanton Museum
completion status: started work on August 23 and still continuing
staff guidance: Ruben Garza
STA team members: Marianne, Angie, Abriella, Rahul
description/plans: Work on migrating the current Blanton museum website pages to the WordPress site

For Blanton I worked with Marianne to fix image links and the featured image for blog posts.

I also went back and fixed links from earlier pages that I made that went to the old Blanton site and changed them to navigate to the new WordPress site.

I started working on new trainings. The one I am currently working on is the Principles and Elements of Design Training.

Week 11

November 8, 2021 By Asmita Karmakar

Last week we finished fixing all the alt text for images!

One thing I used to speed up the process of finding images was the media library on the old Blanton site.

I could scroll more easily to find images and also search up image names. Instead of completing 2-3 pages per day it increased my work exponentially.

Week 10

November 1, 2021 By Asmita Karmakar

Since most of the pages were now done being converted, this past week I mainly worked on fixing the alt text for images in the media library to increase accessibility.

This is the old WordPress site I am searching on to find the images with the missing alt text to copy and paste them over

This is the new site with the alt text I am trying to fix

so any images that don’t have the alt text column filled in I have to search for on the old site and copy the text over

It is taking me a long time because there are 100 pages of images on the old site to look through

Week 9

October 25, 2021 By Asmita Karmakar

Status update: we finished all the pages except for past exhibitions!

Marianne updated me last week on the main goal being to finish all the main pages other than the exhibitions and we completed them!

Here are just a few examples of pages I’ve worked on and the comparison to the reference site.

Reference site:

The copied version:

As you can see there are still live updates being made to the reference site, so something I just noticed while making this blog is that there is now a Halloween special that was added.

Another example

copied site:

reference site: