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First Week

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Hello, it’s Rahul. It’s been a very eventful week, from meeting my fellow STAs and other staff members to starting work. This week I’ve mostly been going through the WebDev trainings and getting familiar with the browser inspect tool as well as good website accessibility. Below are two screenshots of one accessible website (Billboards) and one inaccessible website (Yale Art).

 

Another training that I have done is the Web Browser Inspect Tool. In that training I utilized the inspect tool and changing some lines of HTML and CSS was able to manipulate the website, including changing images, font style, and size. You can see some of the changes below.

I have also attended the training for the COLA Refresh project and will began working on some of the trainings, including making a personal page.

Classes have also started this week so it’s been busy, but I’m sure it will all get settled into a rhythm soon. All in all, it’s going pretty well, and I’m excited to continue working on the COLA Refresh project.

press release

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Hello again, it’s me. The semester is starting tomorrow and I am not ready… but also happy to be in the office and amongst people again! Maybe I’ll stop having one-sided conversations with cats…

This week I kind of bopped around, working on photo IDs and finishing the animation project script. Excited to see where the animation project goes! It’s definitely been slow-going, as we’ve all just been working on it in our downtime, but we’re definitely starting to make some significant progress.

Also, I’ll include a couple IDs here for reference

 

I also worked a bit on web support and updating the STA blog as well as reviewing the documentation for the COLA web refresher project, which me and a couple other STAs will start helping with beginning tomorrow. I am storing my current questions here.

Also I have an important announcement. After careful consideration, Pirate has decided she is not open to photographs at this time.

Green Screen Training

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Green Screen Training

For the green screen training, I decided to use this image:

I was able to successfully remove the green screen background and color adjust the image.

I decided to add in a forest background to the image. Since the background image was lighter, I edited the photo to make the image fit better with the background.

 

Welcome to the STA Blog

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Hi Adrian! 🙂 Welcome to the STA Blog! This the page where your blog posts will published.
Toward the end of your STA Orientation, you’ll design and upload a banner to go at the top of this page.

Upload a Blog Banner

Step One: Design Your Banner in Photoshop

Use these Photoshop specs when you’re making your banner:

  • Your banner should be 780 pixels wide (the height doesn’t matter)
    • Must include your name, your major, and your expected graduation year
    • Your banner should reflect who you are (your personality, interests or major)
    • Make sure to save your banner for the web (i.e. File > Export > Save for Web (Legacy))
    • If you save your banner as a JPG, make sure sure the quality is high (i.e. at least 60)

Step Two: Save Your Banner

  • There are two places you can save your completed projects: UT Box and the LAITS server. You’ll be given a personal folder in both locations. For now, you only have to save your banner to UT Box, but you may have to access the server at some point in the future.

Accessing UT Box

Accessing the LAITS server

  • Accessing the LAITS server from off-campus is slightly more complicated.
    • You’ll need to be registered with Duo if you aren’t already (you can register here).
    • Then you’ll need to connect to the UT VPN and the LAITS server. The videos below will walk you through how to do that:
    •  Then navigate to your STA volume folder and save
      • smb://file.laits.utexas.edu/sta/Adrian McKee
    • Save your banner both as an image and an unmerged PSD

Step Three: Upload Your Banner to the STA Blog

  • Log in the the STA Blog here.  You should’ve received an email confirming your new WordPress account with your username and assigned password. If didn’t get it or you can’t log in, ask Suloni or another STA.
  • You’ll be able to change your password anytime by going to Users > Your Profile > Account Management > New Password.

Uploading media and banners in WP

  • Read these links before you upload your banner.
  • They will walk you through how to upload media to your blog.

How to Upload a Homepage Banner

Adding New Posts and Media

Ayo

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This week, I met with Marian to help with the BIES site and make some updates on her behalf.

I also did some internal work, adding Michelle to various to-dos and the STAs to the new COLA web refresher slack channel. I also added STAs to the blog and updated the home page. Next week we’re starting on the COLA web refresher project, so excited for that!

In the meantime, here is Pirate: