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TxPEP – Timeline

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TxPEP – Timeline

Before I left for winter break, I worked on a few elements for the TxPEP branding. My first assignment was creating the Texas Timeline.

This was the original timeline that was used on their site:

To better represent the flow of a timeline, I thought it would be best to make it horizontal instead of vertical. Here are a few of my inspiration images:

 

With a design in mind, I went through a lot of different iterations until I was able to reach the final potential designs. Here are a few of the drafts:

After I received some feedback for the timeline design, I was able to reach the final design possibilities. Each of the options have different types of arrow heads.

 

Week 12

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Project: Blanton Website Migration
Client /Prof: Blanton Museum
completion status: started work on August 23 and still continuing
staff guidance: Ruben Garza
STA team members: Marianne, Angie, Abriella, Rahul
description/plans: Work on migrating the current Blanton museum website pages to the WordPress site

For Blanton I worked with Marianne to fix image links and the featured image for blog posts.

I also went back and fixed links from earlier pages that I made that went to the old Blanton site and changed them to navigate to the new WordPress site.

I started working on new trainings. The one I am currently working on is the Principles and Elements of Design Training.

 

 

Week 9

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Project: Blanton Website Migration
Client /Prof: Blanton Museum
completion status: started work on August 23 and still continuing
staff guidance: Ruben Garza
STA team members: Marianne, Angie, Abriella, Rahul
description/plans: Work on migrating the current Blanton museum website pages to the WordPress site

Status update: we finished all the pages except for past exhibitions!

Marianne updated me last week on the main goal being to finish all the main pages other than the exhibitions and we completed them!

Here are just a few examples of pages I’ve worked on and the comparison to the reference site.

Reference site:

The copied version:

As you can see there are still live updates being made to the reference site, so something I just noticed while making this blog is that there is now a Halloween special that was added.

Another example

copied site:

reference site:

Week 8

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This week I spend most of my time back on the Blanton Project.

Project: Blanton Website Migration
Client /Prof: Blanton Museum
completion status: started work on August 23 and still continuing
staff guidance: Ruben Garza
STA team members: Marianne, Angie
description/plans: Work on migrating the current Blanton museum website pages to the WordPress site

I worked on the exhibition pages with Marianne. This is an example exhibition page that I worked on. Most of them have this similar layout. The pictures were missing but Marianne helped out with that.

A big issue is that a lot of the links were broken, so we will have to go back and fix those.

Week 7

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Project: PSY MUNA LAB
Client /Prof: Professor Alexandra Clark
completion status: started last week and expected to be done by Nov 8
staff guidance: Estella
STA team members: Angie
description/plans: Create a lab website for Prof. Clark on Grav/Gantry using the Duarte lab templates

 

I made some small styling changes:

 

The main title was off-centered and when the page screen was minimized it would shift to the left. The horizontal menu on the top would also bleed over to the bottom when the page.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the new look with the title positioned in a better place and the menu spacing fixed.


I was playing around with how to have this section styled on the page since it was kind of awkward being aligned to the left in comparison with the other sections. I created a new particle block to have this section separated from the rest. Not sure if this is the final look but it’s there for now. 

I also updated the profile block from Estella’s Duarte Lab template to have the text wrap and include spaced out sections for Twitter username’s and fun facts since Prof. Clark provided more info to go along with this section than the Duarte lab.

Duarte Lab profile blocks

 

The new MUNA lab profile blocks

I also had quite a bit of trouble with adding my changes to github which took up some time on Wednesday (Estella helped me out on Thursday).

For now, I’m done with the MUNA lab project and am switching back to Blanton until I have to add in the final changes to the homepage and other css changes.

 

Week 6

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Project: PSY MUNA LAB
Client /Prof: Professor Alexandra Clark
completion status: started last week and expected to be done by Nov 8
staff guidance: Estella
STA team members: Angie
description/plans: Create a lab website for Prof. Clark on Grav/Gantry using the Duarte lab templates

This is what the site looks like so far (added all the current content):


I’m currently focusing on the smaller style aspects like properly centering the header on the title page. It’s taking me some time to look through/modify Estella’s code that she wrote for the previous Duarte Lab project. I’ve been messing around with the margins, padding, floats, alignments, etc.