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Progress on Texas Politics Project template

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Making progress on Texas Politics Project template

Today, after applying some minor edits from Maddy, I started on the style guide. I just made a copy of the doc and added comments to it with guidelines like font, font size, and font weight. I also added guidelines for photo placement, just because Google Docs can be a little messy with a document with a lot of images and text.

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Today I began studio course graphic training and did some IDs, as well as met with the Assistant Director of British Studies’ site to discuss proposed changes to their site.

Here’s an example of the IDs and the draft for the studio graphic training:

The ID was good quality so it didn’t require much editing, the only change I made was add some noise to her face as the filter she seemed to be using looks a little heavy-handed.

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2020/09/11/34598-2/

Update: CLIO Training

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CLIO, part the second

Today, I got started on part ii of the CLIO training. So far, I’ve only updated the background color of the module and edited the CSS for my color scheme to make it easier on myself. Here are some somewhat boring screenshots of my code:

Texas Politics Project Update

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Update: Texas Politics Project

Y’all, I gave Google docs a bad rap. It’s not half bad to use for layout design! This week, I’ve reformatted the table of contents, applied some edits to the title page, and made sure the doc is actually useable as a template! I expect to get started on the style guide for this by late next week. Here are some screenshots of my updates:

Starting Texas Politics Project template

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 New project!

The Texas Politics Project requested a template for their research papers. I was super excited to get this assignment because, well, I’m a huge Texas politics nerd and I used to intern in the legislature. I actually got the internship through the Texas Politics Project’s website!

I started today on the template in Google docs. It’s a bit pesky. Apparently, the way it looks to me on the doc isn’t the way it actually looks, so I have to constantly export PDFs and delete them to check what I’ve actually done. So far, I’ve done everything except adding a couple of more pull quotes and some minor alignment things.

I need to fix this:

But here’s some other sparse screenshots from the doc!