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Kim Soland

Kim S 08-09

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8/12/09

  • Finished Pragmatics module/thumbnails
  • Updated Ayn Rand website
  • Worked on cms.doc

7/29/09

  • Worked on Pragmatics module for TLTC.

7/29/09

  • Made thumbs and stills for TLTC.
  • Started on new TLTC Module.

7/22/09

  • Edited Ayn Rand again.
  • Finished TLTC modules.
  • Finished CREEES thumbnails.
  • Did a mock-up for the France-UT banner:

7/15/09

  • Fixed JOSHU submit function
  • Almost finished with adding content to TLTC
  • Updated Ayn Rand site again.

7/8/09

  • Met with Rachael about TLTC
  • Worked on TLTC
  • Made a bunch of thumbnails

7/1/09

  • Made an image gallery.
  • Met with Wilson and showed him how to make image galleries.
  • Made a bunch of thumbnails
  • Updated page for the Ayn Rand people.
  • Met with Rachael about TLTC.

6/24/09

  • met with Rachael about language website. Need to make some spreadsheets.
  • made some thumbnails for said language website
  • met with Amy about objectivism website. Need to make some updates.
  • Worked on grants banner:

6/17/09

  • Met with Rachael about the language website.
  • Created 2 modules for said language website.
  • Fixed broken links in Cascade and color-coded those I could not fix.
  • Fixed the flash menu for the IAC website.
  • Worked on the image links for the CMS page Kelsey is working on. Fail.
  • Dr. Charumbira got back to me about her website – should have content soon.
  • Emailed the Ayn Rand people. Will have work for me Friday.
  • Moar werk?

6/10/09

First Summer Week

  • finished up germanic website.
  • finished coding Dr. Charumbira’s website and emailed her about content.
  • Worked on broken links in Cascade.
  • Meeting with Rachael after this meeting.

5/6/09

LAST MEETING

Germanic Studies

  • Working on lingering detail fix things
  • Meeting with Katherine today to talk about lingering detail fix things.

Dr. Charumbira

  • She emailed me and we’re working on setting up a meeting.
  • Anyone know anything about using forms on webspace or preventing images from being saved/copied?

4/29/09

Germanic Studies

  • done

4/22/09

Germanic Studies

  • Worked on migration

STA Presentation

  • Made my wikis.

4/15/09

Cinzia

  • Finished. Website is Live.

Shakespeare at Winedale

  • Fixed tables. Works now.

Charumbira

  • Met with her on Friday. How to implement?

Germanic Studies

  • Transferring it.

4/8/09

Cinzia Russi

  • Almost finished. Waiting on content.

Shakespeare at Winedale

  • fixing tables by replacing them with text.

4/1/09

Shakespeare at Winedale

  • created placeholder images and made anchor links out of them
  • tried to make the above work

Cinzia Russi’s Page

  • Met with her about what she wants. She likes the website Christine made for Catherine and wants elegant page with blue and green.
  • Started color picking.

3/25/09

Texas Politics

3/11/09

Iron Age Celts

  • Made a live maps page.
  • Omitted 2 links from front animation. Added one link.
  • OH YEAH IT’S LIVE NOW.
  • Fixed “bibliograpghy”on page
  • Changed gradient on main page
  • need to fix “bibliograpghy” on flash animation…halp?

TexPol

  • was put on standby for a few days. Just got the first set of data. Starting to work on it at 3 today.

3/4/09

Texas Politics Poll

  • Made new pages/folders from old graphs to be reused. Corrected dates, etc, so that all we have to do is plug in data.
  • Made templates for a couple of combined features:
  • Verified that I am finished with this project until next Friday

Iron Age Celts

  • Corrected some typographical errors (aside: Mai Thi is AMAZING at proofreading!!)
  • Fixed the front-page animation so that it doesn’t separate on wide-screen monitors.
  • Met with Constanze about the website. She wants a word cloud as an alt to, as opposed to a replacement of, the current flash navigation. She wants two items (cf.) removed from the flash navigation. She wants a link to the live maps from the front page of the website. She may want the old gradient back–she said she’d contact Suloni about this. She cannot export into a .csv file.

2/24/09

Iron Age Celts

  • FINISHED coding all of the pages into PHP/CSS. Left one or two tables that are actually tables.
  • Started error-checking.
  • Scheduled meeting with Constanze about what she wants now that the site is, more or less, finished. She probably still wants interactive maps. I may need to change a couple things on the start page flash depending on if she wants to continue using it or wants to replace it with a word cloud. Need to find out if she expects me to make new pages for her for the images I made. Need to check on status of EndNote for Christine (do I just need to see if she can export into .csv?) Hopefully she’s okay with the new design. Anything else?

Texas Politics Polls

  • Had a meeting with Ran, Jim, and Adam about what needs to be done for the TXPOL polls.
  • Started work on re-doing labels from past graphs to be reused.

2/18/09

Iron Age Celts

  • almost done

thermometers

  • meeting today

2/11/09

Iron Age Celts

  • Coding.
  • GOAL: Finish coding by end of February

2/4/09

Iron Age Celts

  • coding, coding. Going quickly.
  • I don’t know what to do about this.
  • Or this.

1/27/09

Iron Age Celts

  • Made a gradient for left and right sides of IAC page because Constanze didn’t like black background. Firefox doesn’t support 2 background images. Searched teh interwebs for a work-around. Found a couple interesting ideas. So far none of them work. Kelsey had an interesting idea, which was to make a background image of the gold-to-black L-C-R gradient, tile it vertically, and position it in the center of the page and set the background to gold. The caveat to this is that large monitors will have a lot of gold and small monitors might not see any.

UPDATE: I’m a freaking genius

  • got a few more pages of the site properly formatted into css

1/21/09

Well, it appears I forgot to update my wiki the last week of last semester. Oh well.

Iron Age Celts

  • Made some image headers for Constanze’s courses website.

Misc.

  • remembered all necessary passwords/codes. Yes!

12/1/08

Iron Age Celts

  • Made back arrows for the website:
  • continued coding

11/22/08

Iron Age Celts

  • Met with Constanze about maps and endnote. She wants actual terrain maps integrated into the website with links to websites like panoramia and wikimapia. She also wants a “back” navigation on individual pages. Ekphora and Symposion need to be eliminated from the flash thing.
  • continued coding IAC

11/21/08

Iron Age Celts

  • It’s Sunday and I FINALLY GOT COLORED IMAGE BORDERS TO WORK!
  • Coded Durrnberg, Ekphora, Ethnic, Flagons

11/19/08

Iron Age Celts

  • Fixed IAC homepage image and fonts
  • Made new colored header bar things (see last week’s links)
  • Fought a winning battle against image link border colors.
  • Fighting a losing battle against embedded image borders.

Indigenous Studies

  • Un-did the changes I made last week at Jim’s request.

11/12/08

Iron Age Celts

  • coding new design.

Yellow Green

Made a slight change to IS website at Jim’s request:

After

11/6/08

IS Website is now IE compatible!

11/5/08

Iron Age Celts

  • started coding new design:

Before & After

10/29/08

Iron Age Celts

  • Made 3 mockups for new IAC design:

10/22/08

Iron Age Celts

  • Finished up the image-less pages of the IAC website
  • Proposed new layout since current one is inconsistent–approved!
  • Working with Suloni on refining new design:

Mock up:

10/15/08

Iron Age Celts

  • went back and fixed most of the images that were fluidity-impaired. Said images would overlap other images and text, move vertically during browser size adjustments, or both. Second problem took me a while to figure out, but was an easy fix once I did. First problem is not totally resolved:
dev.laits.utexas.edu/ironagecelts/flagons.php (also Heuneberg)
dev.laits.utexas.edu/ironagecelts/glauberg.php
I’ve looked for ways to make images wrap to the next line in CSS, but haven’t found anything.
I don’t even know where to start with the glauberg problem.
  • Where is Christine?

SIGN UP FOR CAKE WEDNESDAY!

10/10/08

  • practiced with illustrator for a bit. Not totally pleased with this, but it’s a start.

10/8/08

Iron Age Celts–

  • More o’the same! Images are misbehaving in a new way every day.

10/1/08

Iron Age Celts –

  • I’m still brute-forcing my way through image positions, but making progress and learning new tricks. Last week I was almost finished with “g” pages. This week I’m only on “h,” but there’s about n+1 pages that start with h, so it’s not so bad, especially since I had to re-do some stuff I’d already done to make images a uniform size.
  • I edited an image to make it un-pixelated in the thumbnail. I’m fairly pleased with the way it looks now.
  • Misc.–
  • Today I taught basic HTML to a couple of guys who oversee the Indigenous Studies website. It was fun. I like teaching. I also set up a backup folder of all of the files in the website just in case something goes wrong. Back when I was learning HTML, something ALWAYS went wrong. Usually it was from not closing a tag.
  • I have a test in History of Ancient Philosophy tomorrow. Wish me luck!!

9/24/08

Iron Age Celts –

Vix
Etruscan flagon, Vix (2 views)

Kleinaspergle
Kleinaspergle

DurrBz1.gif” alt=”Durrnberg” border=”1″ hspace=”0″ vspace=”5″ width=”75″>
Dü (2 flagons)

Bronze flagon
Glauberg

Dear God, why?

9/22/08

Iron Age Celts – Started CSS-conversion work on a page with a bunch of images in tables. Got a headache. Found pages without images to work on. Iron Age Celts – Christine fixed the image issue. I stopped crying.

9/17/08

Iron Age Celts – Finished converting in to PHP.

  • Started learning CSS.
  • Iron Age Celts – Got started converting the tables into
    s. I will be doing this for quite some time.

9/10/08

Started learning PHP.

  • Iron Age Celts – changed .html extensions into .php extensions and modified the code of these files to reflect the changes.

KSoland 09-10

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Kim Soland is a second-year STA and a fourth-year student.

She is double-majoring in Philosophy and Radio-Television-Film and double-minoring in Computer Science and English.

Her interests include industrial sculpture, appendectomy surveillance, yacht construction, and lying about her interests.

8/19/10

8/12/10

8/5/10

  • As per last week’s meeting, I worked on Persian Teaching Resources.
  • *Finished coding Unit 1, I think. Now with accordions, Persian characters, and a weird webtoolkit bug that I’ll address later.
  • *Fixed Persian banner.
  • *Added a link for Unit 10
  • *Changed Unit 3 picture
  • *Updated nav to include Book 2
  • I still need to:
  • Change Persian image on ribbon
  • Code units 2-10 for Book 1
  • Code all units for Book 2*

7/29/10

  • Worked on Persian Teaching Resources. Almost finished!
  • Met with Anousha about adding files to the website via SFTP, as well as a couple of small website changes
  • *each section in the first units is about a single Persian alpha character. I will rename them accordingly.
  • *need to make section menus accordion down.
  • *need to change picture for Unit 3.
  • *need to add unit 10 to Book 1.
  • *need to add Book 2 and units 11-end.
  • Let me know if you’re interested in being an HC mentor next year, and I’ll tell the guy who runs it to put your email on the list he sends out about it!

7/15/10

  • Worked on Persian Teaching Resources all week.
  • *Styling is finished; content forthcoming.
  • Work in Progress:
  • *Still need to finish the conference site, but that’s on hold until Persian is finished.
  • CSS3 is awesome

7/8/10

  • Coded on the spanish conference site
  • *Navigation is working, except for not having the correct colors yet.
  • *Although there are no visible differences, I recoded the site so as to avoid last week’s centering technique.
  • Coded on persian teaching resources
  • *Worked with Suloni on the site design
  • STA WikiWikiWiki image
  • *started positioning elements
  • Work in Progress:
  • *Still need to finish the conference site, but that’s on hold until Persian is finished.
  • *Passed L’Avis des Artistes typo-correction duties onto Christine.
  • *Didn’t get to work on my public/private banner mockup. I’m concerned that the world is not ready for my banners, heh heh heh.

7/1/10

  • Coded on the spanish conference site
  • discovered a cool way to center a div in the page for when margin:auto; doesn’t work:
  • left:50%; margin-left:-(.5*DivWidth);

6/24/10

  • Sat in on a couple of faculty workshop classes.
  • Worked on Government feature.
  • Fixed a couple of Persian buttons.
  • Made this mockup for the AILCFH conference website.
  • STA WikiWikiWiki image
  • Also working on Persian Teaching Resources page.

4/21/10

  • Almost finished F/R with l’AdA
  • Met with Janet about her class’s wiki

4/14/10

  • Wasn’t here last week.
  • This week, I’ve worked on l’Avis des Artistes and fixed a Student Affairs page.

3/31/10

  • Built up wiki sites for sta presentation
  • worked on Avis
  • Met with Noah about SVP. I’m off the project b/c it won’t be ready to code by May.

3/24/10

  • Began effecting changes to L’AdA –
  • merged the style sheets. Still need to c/p the new JS onto every page and make Cheney’s changes.
  • Met with Peter and Noah about SVP.

3/10/10

  • Added header/footer/homepage link to Avis. Also tied up some loose ends (missing images, etc).
  • Met with Peter and Noah about SVP.

2/24/10

  • Avis des Artistes
  • (was out most of last week)

2/17/10

  • Met with Noah about Media Center design
  • Worked on Avis des Artistes credits page and header.

2/10/10

  • Went to FastTex meeting and talked about DASE.
  • Made ‘Production Credits’ and ‘About’ pages for Avis Des Artists, and tweaked a couple of small things.
  • Met with Courtney and showed her how to update the NSTE page.
  • Got ‘Take On Me’ stuck in Christine’s head.

2/2/10

  • Met with Peter, Noah, and Dustin about Spanish Video Project.
  • Added banners to Avis des Artistes and added the image fade on the homepage – yay!
  • Worked on history conference website.

1/27/10

  • Met with Peter, Noah, and Dustin about Spanish Video Project.
  • Added banners to Avis des Artistes.
  • Worked on history conference website.

12/1/09

  • Coded Malayalam
  • Met with Spanish Video Project.
  • Worked on Cinzia’s Vitae.
  • Met with Janet Swaffer to help her with a presentation.

11/18/09

  • http://www.alistapart.com/articles/on-web-typography/
  • Met with Professor Jacobshon and got his website moved from web.austin to webspace. Updated his vitae.
  • Met with Cinzia and updated her vitae.
  • Met with Scott Meyers and showed him how to make footnotes.
  • Met with Spanish Video Project people and figured out where we’re going with that.
  • made a quasi-mockup for spanish video project.

11/4/09

  • Worked on Avis des Artists
  • finally figured out phonology. Meeting with prof eventually.

10/28/09

  • Worked on Avis des Artists
  • Added Dustin’s and Nikki’s Passe Partout pages.

10/21/09

  • Finished styling Passe Partout.
  • Taught Dustin and Nikki how to format the Passe Partout pages properly.
  • Taught Julio Moreno how to edit video clips.

10/13/09

  • Worked reduced hours again last week. Fortunately, I’m done with papers for a while.
  • Updated styles on Passe Partout.

10/7/09

  • Sickness/schoolness prevented me from doing much.
  • Looked at phonology stuff. I think I’m going to be able to teach it.
  • Taught Phil about teh interwebz.

9/30/09

9/23/09

  • Worked on JOSHU submit functionality.
  • Worked on JUSHU bug.
  • Attended CMS meeting.
  • Made a mock-up for EEJH mock-up.
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  • Made another mock-up for EEJH.
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9/16/09

  • Wrote some transcripts for TLTC. TLTC is LAUNCHING the prototype!!
  • Worked out some kinks in the Arabic Resources page.
  • Worked on STA Graphic
  • worked on Rose graphic
  • STA WikiWikiWiki image

9/9/9

  • Wrote transcripts for TLTC Grammar
  • Worked on STA graphic
  • Taught Phil about the CMS

9/2/09

  • Met with Rachael about TLTC tasks
  • Worked on Wiki graphic
  • Made a thumbnail of my face for LAITS website
  • Learned how to man the media lab

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