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)

 

Hey everyone. Last week has been much of the same as before. I’ve just been migrating pages from the old CMS to the new CMS. A couple interesting things though, is that there are new features in Pages that have been added, such as the ability to have two columns, images with no text, and probably the biggest feature of all, tables. Because they have now added tables to Pages, there are a lot more pages that we can migrate, so this past week I’ve just been working on those. Some of those pages are quite extensive with a lot of content, so it takes some time to check for broken links and add/format everything. All in all, though, not too difficult. Here is an example of one of the large pages that I have migrated.

 

I haven’t gotten to work too much on my other trainings but I’m pretty close to finishing the HTML training. There’s currently a little bug that I have to fix because I added a flip page feature with JavaScript, but after seeing Slack I might have to hold off on it for a little bit because I’m moving to the Blanton project and splitting time between that and COLA, so I’m sure I’ll have my hands full for a while.

 

 

Machine Learning Course Graphics

This week, I am mainly focused on finishing up the course graphics for the Machine Learning course. So far, the logo, animation, title card, course card, and studio backdrop are complete. Here are the files:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ethics and Fairness Logo Animation

Last week, I was mainly working on finalizing the logo design and creating the animation. Through the different iterations of the animation, we ended up altering the final logo design too.

 

For the animation, we wanted to have the scale moving on the top and movement of the nodes at the bottom. Here is the final logo and animation.

 

 

Weekly updates

This week, I’ve:

• worked on photo IDs
• cut out photos and updated the spreadsheet for the STA roster poster
• Slacked with people and researched for my PR project
  • Matthew Busby tells me there is no set date for Chatter faculty presentation, but I am welcome to come when it happens 🙂
• worked on updating photo ID guidelines
  • Ingrid and I have been working on a guide (will end up being a linked PDF in the KB) to teach STAs basic aesthetic edits for photo IDs. Here’s a slide I did to show an extreme version of color balance edits:

COLA Web Refresh

Over the past week, I worked on updates to the CMSTA shift spreadsheet as well as the tasks spreadsheet. I worked with Adrian to set up more CMSTA interviews. I also dropped in on Lindsay’s orientation and worked a little bit with her to get comfortable with everything.

I also worked on a number of pages and sent a status update for Academic Enrichment to the relevant contacts. No response yet, so fingers crossed.

 

Photo ID Training Refresh

Project: Photo ID KB Training
Client /Prof: internal to LAITS Design STA team
completion status: started on 9/23
staff guidance: Suloni
STA team members: Abriella, Angie, Megan, Cristina
description/plans: Working to create new client comm templates and guidelines for unique photo ID situations. Also created PPT (eventually to be converted to pdf) w/ Megan to guide STAs on basic photo edits.
To be completed: Maybe within next 2 weeks??

 

COLA Web Refresh Project STA Prior Design Experience Questionnaire

Project: Design Survey for CMSTAs
Client /Prof: CMSTA team
completion status: sent out on 10/1
staff guidance: Suloni
STA team members: Angie
description/plans: With Angie, created list of basic skills CMSTAs might need for editing existing COLA photos during the web refresh project and/or graphic creation (possibly). Once we get responses from all 3 current CMSTAs we’re going to use it to plan and create documentation for this purpose

Photo IDs

If you know, you know.

Git + Github Training Review

No more progress yet, with return this either today or Wednesday (Thuy is online Thursdays.)

Pirate

My roommate’s dad reinforced and “Pirate-proofed” our apartment balcony, so have a quick glimpse of her enjoying the great outdoors

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: Start migrating data from the old CMS to the new CMS
To be completed: TBD (long-term)

 

Hello everyone. This past week has been much of the same as before. I’ve mostly just been migrating pages and remigrating or updating previous pages to make it look more aesthetic or fixing bugs such as broken links and alt text for images. I also attended the weekly COLA meeting where lots of things were discussed, such as how to implement certain features for certain pages such as tables as well as bugs and problems that we have run into. Here are a few of the pages that I have migrated.

Here is an example of a page that I am holding off on as there are no solutions to the application upload problem.

I have also made a lot of progress on my HTML training and have been working with the JSFiddle a lot. This is currently what it looks like. I am trying to add as many features as I can just to keep experimenting with the code and seeing how far I can take it.

This week I’m going to continue to work on my trainings and doing more COLA tasks as they come out.