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More basic trainings

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Color wheel , shape manipulation, and PS paintings

I worked on a few more basic trainings this week.

In Illustrator, I learned how to do image trace and shape manipulation. These are patterns created with the image trace of a rainbow dinosaur and some shapes.

This color wheel was also made in Illustrator with blend shape and gradient. The cubes at the bottom are swatches for RGB and CMYK.

For the Photoshop painting training, I painted a chia drink bottle. These are the process photos.

I also made my caricature ↓

week 3

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Third week – Basic Trainings

I completed the Illustrator logo training, these are the final products.

I will be working on the Cascade intermediate/advanced training. So far I have learned how to add a new page, how to customize buttons and how to create a chart. This is the progress on my test page.

week 2

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My second week as a STA

During my second week at LAITS, I worked on multiple basic trainings and uploaded my first assigned photo ID.

My Cascade training site is up -> https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sta-8/

I will probably learn more about Cascade in another training that is coming up soon.

I also spend some time on designing my logo in illustrator. Check it out below!

 

Working on WordPress

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I’m still trying to test out WPMaintenance but I don’t think I’ll be able to get far using Lando on my laptop. Will probably require an actual WordPress install to get anywhere meaningful with that. Hoping to get a test site or two shortly so that I can evaluate the current state of the codebase and get to work on improving it/adding more functionality.

Epic Similes

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A new task I have been assigned is the Epic Similes project. For this, a spreadsheet of information concerning homeric similes is organized with a variety of attributes. A search interface and website has been established for this information, but it needs more structure and UI/UX. So far, I am working to understand the “handlebars” JavaScript code that creates table information at runtime. However, I have been able to make some small modifications to the appearance such as highlighting and sizing to some UI elements.

Before:

After:

 

UPDATE:

A litte more work has been done, and along with it I’ve gained more understanding of the handlerbars api. Also, I had a meeting with Dr. Beck, and now that there is a clear plan on what is requested going forward, I can use the knowledge of this code base I have gained to begin to implement her requests. Looks like Maddy will help with the visual theme of the website.