date: Sept 7 – Ongoing
project: Feature Photography for http://www.utexas.edu/cola/progs/plan2/
design lead: consulting Suloni Robertson
I scheduled photo sessions for our client in Plan2 for the Terry and Forty Acre scholar feature stories. I will incorporate some feedback from Suloni for the banner that i will design when all the photos have been taken. I expect to have the feature designed and uploaded by Friday of next week, depending on whether or not I can schedule the remaining Terry scholars.

date: Sept 1 – Sept 9
project: Drupal updates to http://wikis.la.utexas.edu/mfranklin/
design lead: consulting Suloni Robertson
I made recommended changes to the site to incorporate Dr. Franklin’s Fall 2011 class. This included enabling class registration, creating new taxonomy terms and establishing new views. As of right now, all her requested changes have been completed, I’m waiting for word on whether or not she wants anything additional.

date: Sept 6 – Sept 14
project: Theme changes for http://dev.laits.utexas.edu/raceandethnicity
design lead: consulting Ming Gong
Made changes to the site’s theme. I mainly added box shadows to the navigation and content areas. I played around with the box-shadow feature and Ming gave me a tutorial. Everything has been completed.

date: Sept 7 – Sept 13
project: STA and Wiki Banner
design lead: consulting Suloni Robertson
Designed STA and Wiki Banners for 2011-12 STA wiki. Both have been uploaded to the wiki for voting.

date: Sept 9
project: “Meet the New Economists” feature for http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/economics/
design lead: consulting Suloni Robertson
Resized and uploaded pictures to Cascade. I then inserted the pictures into story (my changes were not published).

date: Sept 13
project: STA wiki voting page
Helped AJ create the voting page for the STA banners. This has been completed.

date: Sept 1 – ongoing
project: Make mockup changes to Poldrack theme
design lead: consulting Suloni Robertson
I need to edit the mockup Suloni designed. This will be done early next week.

date: Sept 12 – ongoing
project: Create banner for Maddox Wiki http://dev.laits.utexas.edu/maddox/
design lead: consulting Suloni Robertson
Began creating a “carrot and stick” banner for the Maddox Wiki. I’m still working on this and hope to have it completed early next week. Ming gave me the heads up to email the Maddox folks and tell them they can begin adding content to the site (this will require a tutorial).

project: Pitch Perfect Pinyin
leads: Suloni
The practice portion of the Pitch Perfect Pinyin site is coming together. See what I’ve been working on here. In sum, Parts 1 and 3, along with the styling of the page was completed this past week. I’m still working on parts 2, 4 and 5 and developing a solution to display two columns of questions per row. I’ve run into a small wall with the latter – making two columns with the questions is easy to do in a PHP for loop, but I’ve found out it interferes with how the JS checks the answers. Eachgets checked and if two question columns exist in that row, only the first set of questions gets corrected. After my JS and CSS solutions both failed (see below), I’m thinking I have to reconfigure the current code to incorporate <div(s)> instead of <tr(s)>. Since the content is not completely tabular, in that data in the rows can exist as their own columns, divs can be used as an appropriate method for displaying everything. I hope to finish the final three parts this week and next.

project: STA wiki migration & Visual Design/Implementation – IN PROGRESS
lead: Suloni
I finished designing two mockups for a new and improved STA wiki.After some discussion and advice from Suloni, we’re moving towards this mock up design.Once a few more things are done, I can start theming the site on a dev version of the site.

project: Pitch Perfect Pinyin
leads: Suloni and formally, Ran 🙁
I met with Ran a couple times to discuss this project and where it needs to go. During the weekend, I began testing an example template that Ran created before leaving. I will be taking over the creation of a quiz interface and its functionally. Ran left me a good start and it’s now my job to finish what’s left. I’m super excited about this project, as I will gain some valuable experience using PHP, jQuery and Javascript. This project should take up the majority of my hours in the remaining weeks.

project: JOSHU
Another project Ran left.I also discussed what has to be done to finish this project.It will involve adding audio to 4-5 sets of flash cards and coding/populating several video and audio quiz sections.Another very exciting project that I can’t wait to start.

project: STA wiki migration & Visual Design/Implementation – IN PROGRESS
lead: Suloni
I’m working on a new set of mockups for a new and improved STA wiki. Should have more to show in my next update.

project: Persian Teaching Resources Site Update – COMPLETED
lead: Ran
I’ve finished a set of updates for the Persian Teaching Resources site.

project: Browser and User Testing for Fac. Pubs – COMPLETED
lead: Lauren
I met with Lauren and tested the faculty publications site. Tested the user login, application and its compatibility with several browsers.

project: Help request – Dr. Richmond-Garza – COMPLETED
Assisted Dr. Richmond-Garza with a help request.

I’m Ryan.