Yesterday I made a mockup for the cover art of a podcast called This is Democracy. The client requested that the image show young people wearing 19th century wigs, with the U.S. constitution as a backdrop, in a 1400 x 1400 px document. Here is my mockup:
Beyond that, I’ve just been working on COLA IDs:
And my Cascade test site (see previous blog post).
Project: Cascade practice site
Completion Status: Done
Staff Guidance: Andre, Chloe, Rodrigo, Suloni
Descriptions/Plans: I’m completing the tasks assigned on Basecamp and updating here on this blog post as I go along
Here is a link to my site:
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sta-5/
First, I added the official UT word mark and STA identity icon to my site. Then I uploaded my 870 x 385 banner and added text to my header and sub-header by going to units>sta-5>index>edit.
Created some events to go on my page by adding events to the Cola database and setting the office drop-down to sta-5.
And news stories:
Added some random body content with links embedded (the text and the image redirect to my blog), reorganized the page to go news>body content>events
Embedded a Youtube video into the right side bar:
During my first week, I’ve been helping test the new Texas Beyond History site with help from Ruben and Rodrigo, checking the pages for problems with the banners and interactive games and recording them in this Google spreadsheet:
We are testing the new links on both desktop and iPad to guarantee there are no issues on either. I’ve also been trained by Chloe on the process for updating COLA IDs and have starting working on my first batch. I’ll add pictures to this post.
Example 80 x 90 photo:
Example 200 x 300:
After downloading the files from UT Box, the images are resized and color-corrected (if necessary) in Photoshop, then uploaded to the COLA database. Profile Image=200×300, Image=80×90. After the profile pages are checked to make sure the images uploaded correctly, the people who submitted the photos are notified by email using the template found in the STA volume (with Suloni and Andre CC’ed).
Today was my STA orientation; we ran through the handbook, learned timekeeping, made our basecamp avatar and blog banner, and took a tour of the LAITS facilities. I’m excited to start training and begin working as a design STA!
