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This week, I continued to work on the LRC flyer’s expanded design, the new photo ID training, photo ID editing, and the brochure training. I was able to condense the three-page draft into two with Valerie’s help, and hopefully the client will like it. I also created the master Basecamp assignment for the new photo ID training. I also met with Maddy about edits from her and Mike to my Chatter write-up.
Project: COLA Website Refresher
Client /Prof: N/A (College of Liberal Arts)
Completion Status: Started August 25, 2021
Staff guidance: Michelle Vanhoose, Chris Rankin
STA team members: Ingrid, Adrian
description/plans: Continue migrating data from the old CMS to the new CMS
To be completed: TBD (long-term)
This past week has been a lot of finalizing COLA pages and double checking as well as fixing. The site is set to go live soon so there hasn’t been too many new pages to migrate. It is exciting that they demoed the site to the COLA senior staff already and is in its final stages before it goes live.
Project: Blanton Website Migration
Client /Prof: Blanton Museum
Completion Status: Started August 23, 2021
Staff guidance: Ruben Garza
STA team members: Asmita, Marianne, Angie, Abriella
description/plans: Work on migrating the current Blanton museum website pages to the WordPress site
To be completed: TBD (long-term)
For Blanton, I believe the exhibition pages are finished and I am working on finding alternate text for images for the site, which is another extensive task.
I also was able to complete the pixel art training. Here are the results. Overall, this training was really fun. I learned how to use only a few colors to represent an object and find ways to still include depth in the image.
Last week, I worked on the editing the spring 2022 online course schedule site. I was just instructed to make it look identical to the fall 2021 online course schedule.
I used some HTML and basic copy and paste to get the site where it needed to be. The only problem was trying to get the banner uploaded with only 200 KBs. I had to convert the banner to a jpeg instead of a png to get it to upload correctly.
I haven’t had a ton of shifts since I last posted, but I’ve mostly been working on the flyer design advertising the Visiting Scholars Program at the Linguistics Research Center and the photo ID KB.
The LRC provided the copy (words) for the flyer, and well, it’s a lot. Our current proposal is to make a packet, seeing as each page is the regular 8.5 x 11 inch paper (mostly digital).
The photo ID KB revisions are almost done! This last week, I added:
Pages (COLA Web Refresh)
We’re about done with Phase II of the COLA Web Refresher Project, meaning the Dean’s COLA sites will soon be frozen and online soon. Most of the bare bones content migration was done, so I and the other CMSTAs spent a good amount of time QAing the various pages (checking for broken links, formatting or content areas, adding/editing alt text, low res graphics). I made some rather last minute edits to the College Leadership page, making sure at least the photos were there even if the specs weren’t perfect.
I can’t wait for the next phase of this project and am so happy to be part of such an efficient and capable team. The team will also burgeon — the last candidate for a CMSTA position is being interviewed next week, and after that decisions and on-boarding should begin.
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I did another powerpoint.
Photo IDs
More photo IDs! Responded to a request from Sarah regarding some IDs submitted a while back that got buried.
Web and Image Training for CMSTAs
In between more time sensitive tasks, I’ve been slowly but surely developing the web and image STA training (for Pages specifically). A lot of this is about photo cropping, exporting, etc. etc. that is crucial for the Pages CMS. I also want to see if we can find a user-friendly alternative to Photoshop for the end users who don’t have / don’t know how to use this program, so we’re not flooded with image resizing requests (Canva?). Anyway, I presented it to the LAITS and PR teams and plan on adding a section on file sizes and exporting.
Pirate
I got a new rug, with two rather abstract cat illustrations on it. Pirate and her brother were initially terrified by it, but it’s now one of her most favorite spots!
