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Week 10 – Thang

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Week 10

Project: Exposure Therapy Lab 

Started on: Nov 7, 2022

Completed on: Nov 10, 2022

Staff Guidance: Ruben, Marianne

Description: For this project, I wrapped up the project with updating all of the changes.

  1. Update search bar: The user can click and filter through the research posts.
  2. Display different words for the button
  3. Update the tags in clinical resources page. The users can click the tags and the clinical resources page will display accordingly with the updated tag in the search url parameter.
  4. Sending email to the clients to ask for feedback

 

 

 

Training: WordPress 

Started on: Nov 18, 2022

Staff Guidance: Ruben, Marianne

Description: For this training, I try to learn more about WordPress regarding update the design layout and change of the content. I looked around the Internet for a good tutorial, and I find the common pattern for it is that they all use Elementor Plugin in order to help with customizing the content. Some of the trainings with the help of Elementor are very beautifully designed without going deep into the coding or the backend of the software. Elementor is a plugin that helps the users can drag and drop different features into the website as they want. They can put on icons, google maps, and videos into the position they want on the website. But I wonder if we will ever use Elementor in our STA project. Regardless, it is good tutorial to let me know about customizing WordPress and changing different components of the websites. 

So for this tutorial, I follow each different steps in order to customize the design with Elementor. I am also doing another tutorials with Elementor right now that lets you to create your own theme with pHp that I will update in our next meeting. 

  1. From the tutorial, I know how to use the plugin to download a Starter Template which helps with installing different templates that makes the process of editing it extremely easy. The tutorial chooses Elementor to be the theme.
  2. I edited the home page the same design with one of the website I have before.
  3. I also edited the Testimonial section with the background as a video and change the overlay of the background to be darker in contrast with the white letter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 9 – Thang

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Week 9

Project: Exposure Therapy Lab

Started on: October 31, 2022

Completed on: Nov 2, 2022

Staff Guidance: Ruben, Marianne

Description: For this project, I was asked to fix up some stuff relating to Research Posts and Logo Walls.

  1. Finished the logo displaying as a carousel
  2. Display the Research Posts
  3. Emailed the clients and asked for more feedback. The clients were really impressed with the designs and all of the changes I made. The clients asked for two more changes relating to the search function of the research posts and the display of the button of the word.
  4. Edited the display word of the button.
  5. Working on Adding a Search Bar, and Selecting multiple topics at once

Project: French Website 

Started on: Nov 2, 2022

Completed on: Nov 3, 2022

Staff Guidance: Ruben, Marianne

Description: For this project, I was asked to add different layouts and designs based on Carrie’s website.

  1. Adding map and different modules to the Program Suite Destination Page.
  2. Adding Key Pedagogies and Key Technologies to the Page.

 

Week 8

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GSD 360 Poster and Slide

Client /Prof: Professor Jana Weiss
completion status: Started on Oct 24
staff guidance: Valerie
To be completed: Finished Oct 27

This week I mainly focused on this GSD 360 project, where I designed an 8.5×11 poster and an intro slide for the GSD 360: Learning from the Germans? Transatlantic Memory Cultures class.

Tockify Calendar Mockup

Client /Prof: Professor Grayson
completion status: Started on Oct 13
staff guidance: Maddy
STA team members: Thang
To be completed: TBD

Last week I worked more on the Tockify calendar mockup, the goal being to make a calendar that displays academic and religious holidays to spread awareness of holidays that faculty, students, or staff may be celebrating. It didn’t change too much visually since last week, but I played around more with calendar events and design this week.

UTFC French Textbook

Client /Prof: Professor Yazz
completion status: Started on Oct 27
STA team members: De’Sha
To be completed: TBD

I just barely started looking at the UTFC French Textbook Project, working on the “More Colors and Shopping List” vocab slides. I didn’t get super far to warrant a picture, but I’ll be working on it more this week!

tockify wrapper code

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data-tockify-width (or just width in WordPress). This limits the calendars width. You need to include units, e.g. 400px or 50%. It’s usually better not to set this and limit the width using your own wrapper div.

Week 7

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Tockify Calendar Mockup

Client /Prof: Professor Grayson
completion status: Started on Oct 13
staff guidance: Maddy
STA team members: Thang
To be completed: TBD

Last week I worked more on the Tockify calendar mockup, the goal being to make a calendar that displays academic and religious holidays to spread awareness of holidays that faculty, students, or staff may be celebrating. Here is the calendar embedded again:

Alternatively, here is the link to the calendar on a more regular webpage view.

 

The above embedded might revert back to not being customized after the premium trial runs out in a few days, so further videos on what the calendar is meant to look like at this stage can be found here.

STA Trainings – History of Design

Completion Status: Started on Oct 20
Staff Guidance: Valerie
To be completed: TBD

I made a first draft of the history of design training, where I chose the Swiss style. I did this in Photoshop, and for the colors I used the “blending options” popup and edited the RGB settings. The full tutorial can be found here. 

 

….and then I also tried my hand at the STA blog banner, but I’m assuming we’re not meant to show progress on that to keep anonymity.