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3-25-19

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Vlabs Interactives

Last week I got trained to make assets for the vlabs interactives, which is going to be a pretty big project lasting into the summer. We’re creating everything in Photoshop, and every popup and clickable item (word, arrow, shape, etc) needs to be saved on its own layer so that when it gets put into Canvasser each element can be isolated.

This is the background for a lab 2 section 1 interactive (each lab has its own color, and lab 2 is red):

 

 

And this is the beginning screen, which is greyed out until you click the “Begin Interactive” button (which will be added later in Canvasser):

 

 

Other than that, I’ve been doing photo IDs and updating a few of the Cascade/Web Editor how-to pages.

2-26-19

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This week and last I worked on graphics for the Brexit in Global & Historical Context Poster with Chloe. My role was to colorize this illustration in Photoshop. It was a great challenge to get more familiar with Photoshop and pretty fun, I basically got to color all week!


Before
After

I also finished my STA blog avatar! Creating my avatar was my first time using a drawing pad. Definitely a task out of my comfort zone but I’m happy with how it turned out as a first try!

I also worked with Stacy on more edits to the Podcasts sites. I made a grid layout for the search pages and repositioned content on the episode pages.

https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/15-minute-history/episodes/

https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/15-minute-history/speakers/
https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/15-minute-history/podcast/episode-118-the-caribbean-roots-of-biodiversity-science/

2-7-19

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Russia Bookmark

This past week I’ve been helping Tate mockup a bookmark for the promotion of the online Russian learning course. This is the final design:

The borders and wood texture used in the background were designed by a former STA. We also extended the white border into the bleed area, which you can see in the second image showing the grid lines in Photoshop.

I’m also helping to redesign the profile page for a professor. I’m mocking up the content in a Google Doc, then when that is approved I’ll move it into the

2-6-19

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This week I completed a big chunk of photo IDs!

I also continued working on mockups for the Podcast WP sites!

Spring ’19

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Spring ’19

I’m baaaack!! Hey STA-ers, we’re finally back from Winter Break. So ready to start off Spring Semester!! After speaking with Suloni, it looks like for this month I’ll be working on learning how to use Cascade to help with faculty maintaining their pages. I’ll also be learning Canvasser and how to manage the assets to help with the VLabs!

So today I started the Cascade tutorials. Here’s my finished product.

Short blog post but there’s more to come 🙂