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Nick Lavigne

Nick Lavigne

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December 14, 2018 By Nick Lavigne

My Last post as an STA

I just want to thank everyone I’ve met over my 1 1/2 years here at LAITS. It’s been a pleasure and it truly was an amazing way to start in the tech industry and I recommend it if you are trying to get started in either graphic design or programming. Everyone here is incredibly talented and Suloni was an amazing boss. I will miss her and everyone else I’ve worked with over my time here. I never would’ve thought I’d get to work at Microsoft right out of college, I always thought it was a far away dream. LAITS gave me experience and knowledge to pursue my dream and make it a reality and I will forever be grateful for that. I will be working on Azure AI at Microsoft which, honestly, I have no idea what that entails, but it sounds awesome. It’s been a crazy fun ride here and I’m so so glad I got to experience it. I wouldn’t trade this experience for anything else.

Filed Under: 2018 Fall - 2019 Spring, We are STAs

Warfield Center Publications Collage

December 14, 2018 By Nick Lavigne

Warfield Center Faculty Publications

Justice from the Center for African & African American Studies wanted me to reorganize the current list of faculty publications in Cascade which looked like this: 

they first wanted a collage as for the masthead which I just made in photoshop:

I then organized the rest of the publications using HTML tables which is basically the only thing you can do within the confines of cascade so now it looks like this: 

For those interested the code for this looks like this:

We basically just set up a table with 4 sections each of 25% width which divides the table into 4 columns. If you want to see the live result on the website here’s the link:  https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/caaas/faculty/books.php

Filed Under: 2018 Fall - 2019 Spring, We are STAs

More Persian Layout

November 26, 2018 By Nick Lavigne

More Persian Layout

 

The next thing I did was make every section of the site styled with an inline block like so: 

This prevents a section from breaking into separate columns like this: 

and instead looks like this: 

Filed Under: 2018 Fall - 2019 Spring, We are STAs

Persian Layout

November 26, 2018 By Nick Lavigne

Persian Layout

 

One of the biggest improvements I’ve made to the Persian site is to the layout. The first thing I did was add an @media css rule to change the number of columns based on the screen width. That looks like this in the CSS: 

basically when the screen gets to width 800px we go from 2 columns to 1 column so that things aren’t squished together.

This is how that looks in the real world:

Filed Under: 2018 Fall - 2019 Spring, We are STAs

More Persian

November 14, 2018 By Nick Lavigne

More Persian

 

I’ve been working on getting the “accordions” to work with Persian site and Stacy thought it would be a good learning experience to implement it myself with javascript.

What I have so far is a script that essentially the hidden elements by changing their display from “none” to “block”.I then added this to the wordpress site using wp_enqueue_script to attach it to all single_functions.php

The result so far is a little jarring but eventually I will add animations and fix the layout so that it looks better.

Here’s the link! https://learning-persian.la.utexas.edu/conversations-of-iran-today/function/greetings/

 

Filed Under: 2018 Fall - 2019 Spring, We are STAs

Persian Site

November 7, 2018 By Nick Lavigne

Persian Site

I’ve started working on the Persian site for Stacy!

Here’s the template designed by Jac:

Here’s current development so far:

Filed Under: 2018 Fall - 2019 Spring, We are STAs

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