Finished deciding on the colors for the characters. Rough version of animation video.

This was the video put together with Anna’s and my illustrations. After completing the video I sent it in get edited by the audio department.

animation-done

I made the above banner for the pictographs page of the Texas Beyond History website. At the end of the old website. I found a “hidden” page that contained some watercolor painting replicas made by preservationist Forrest Kirkland. Since the pictographs page centers around his work, I drew from his art for the banner. I used photoshop and pieced together some squares of his art and created a complete image in watercolor style.

Below is a mockup of the banner on the webpage.

I am currently working on the layout of the rest of the page. The current page is a series of click-through images that will be put all into one page. I should be completely done by Monday!

First rough mockup of the print flyer, focusing on layout. Text and some images are set in place.

Second mockup, focusing on fixing typography. More general ideas for layout, such as for the contact section.

Close to final mockup, front and back spread shown: background color is switched from white to match the general orange/brown from the ‘Terrace field’ picture. “Contact” is lowercase to match “Information Sessions”. The three tracks fill the space on their page. The globe logo has been placed. “Pick Your Track”, branch base and ‘Contact’ section all aligned.

Finished front/back brochure. Two photo strand instead of three to fill white space better, spacing is improved, text enlarged, and the Contact section is more readable.

Texas Beyond History was a project I worked on for some time during the Summer. There are hundreds of page that migrated from an old site that needed to be formatted correctly to the new wordpress site. The other STA’s and myself had to go into each page and fix anything that changed during the transition to the new site. This included, fixing the placement of images, checking for broken links, checking the text and captions of images, and more problems we later came across. The original site was made in 2001 and a script was made to move all the pages from the old site to wordpress however because the original sites used all kinds of different coding techniques, there were a lot of problems that had to be fixed within each page. During the summer I was able to format 47 pages. Each time, something new would need to be fixed and I had to go back to the ones I previously completed and fix the new problem in those too.

Example:

Another job we have as Student Technology Assistants is helping the faculty, staff, and graduate students of the College of Liberal Arts update their photo ID’s onto the COLA website. For Faculty and Grad Students, we make 200×300 profile Images as well as 80×90 icon images. Staff members get the 80×90 icon images. Some images we receive are professionally taken at the LAITS studio by one of our STA’s or elsewhere and need little to no change. However, sometimes we will receive images that need a bit more adjusting. Our job is to take these ID’s , make appropriate changes when needed, upload them onto the website, and finally contact the people who sent the photos and let them know that their request has been completed.