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Cascade day

July 15, 2020 By Miguel Yapur

Today I worked on and finished my Cascade Site. I added content to the right navigation bar, embedding a video from Youtube, a button to more news, and color bars for internal and external pages. I also added unit_information content like Suloni’s picture, related links, social media links, map links to the California Academy of Science

I also added a Contact Us page:

Added the Magic folder and created the two new pages (abra cadabra):

Added Staff and Faculty info through the COLA Web Editor:

My Foray into Site Editing

July 15, 2020 By Megan Fletcher

Fun Times with Cascade

Today, I did most of the Cascade editor basic training. I had a lot of fun with the fake news and event stories. It took my entire shift (4 hours today), but I had a good time making the fake site.

Cascade Training

July 14, 2020 By Miguel Yapur

Today I finished my first set of drafts for the digital backdrops and uploaded them to Box.

Later on I started my Cascade basic training and creating my STA Practice website.

And used some images to add Events and News to it:

More Digital Backdrops!

July 13, 2020 By Miguel Yapur

Today I continued to work on the studio backdrops using color overlays, gradient maps, and collage sets. Here are some examples:

My first attempt at a GIF

July 13, 2020 By Megan Fletcher

My First Attempt at a GIF

I cannot draw. When I have to, I’m basically flying by the seat of my pants. So of course, I was intimidated to do this “basic” training and draw not one, but about 10 frames of a short animation, especially because I don’t have a mouse, let alone a drawing tablet. But it wasn’t that bad! 8-bit art gives a lot of leeway for a lack of artistic talent.

Here’s my (very simple) GIF:

July 10, 2020 By Megan Fletcher

I also got an assignment for studio lecture backgrounds today. It was super cool to go through all the UT photos — I really miss campus. Here are some of my mockups:

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2020/07/10/32511-2/