DustinButler

dustin Butler

Resources/Rad Links | My Projects

And now presenting dustin Butler’s life in nifty bullet points
– English major
– Enjoys designing, writing, thinking about implications that have no impact on anything
– Married for four years and successfully created two beautiful terrors daughters

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RESOURCES/RAD LINKS

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Candles? This is not a candle.	Offworld Where games are made…	xkcd A Webcomic
Layer Tennis	The Color of Art	Animals With Lightsabers
CSS/HTML Tutorials	Typdedia	sxc.hu good resource for royalty free high res stock photography
Typekit Use real fonts on the web.	Photoshop Tutorials -Psdtuts+	Adobe Kuler
Saul Bass Title Design	What the color

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Project Tracking Management Tool for Fellow Student Technology Assistants (PTMTFSTA)

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8.11.2010
– Fixed Intro to German header image
– Finished formatting Henri Michaux poem and began importing to Final Cut Pro

8.10.2010
– Migrated more content over to Texas Theory. Moved into personal pages which have lots of orphaned articles; slowing my pace to a crawl

8.5.2010
– Met with Kate about a header image issue on Introduction to German Drupal site and couldn’t find a solution. I was told to hold off. Not really a problem because I’m about 90% finished with theming
– Worked on Texas Theory and moved over about 50 articles. All I have left is class homepages

8.3.2010
– Began themeing Introduction to German Drupal site
– Live traced a pencil for Intro to German. Came out rather nicely

– Moved Henri Michaux text into Photoshop and began orienting it properly

7.29.2010
– Finished correcting Henri Michaux OCR scans. Beginning to create the scroll effect

7.28.2010
– Corrected OCR Henri Michaux scan

7.27.2010
– Began migrating content over to Texas Theory

7.26.2010
– Finished correcting OCR scans for eFiles
– Met with Daniel and went over Henri Michaux. Trying to fix artifacts from appearing in video

7.25.2010
– Finished up the changes to Introducing German mockup

– Corrected OCR scans for eFiles

7.23.2010
– Made changes to Introducing German mockup

– Corrected OCR scans for eFiles

7.22.2010
– Finished eFiles
– Began fleshing out Introducing German Drupal instance

7.14.2010
– Almost finished with eFiles. One more page!!!

7.13.2010
– Added descriptions to eFiles

7.12.2010
– Worked on digitizing text using OCR from Henri Michaux. Now have complete control over type and preserving the author’s words

7.09.2010
– Type for Henri Michaux poem is inconsistent. My methods of scanning and digitizing using Photoshop didn’t work out so hot. I started importing in and had completely different weights. Working on finding the most efficient way to solve this

7.08.2010
– STA Meeting and testing of Policy Agenda website
– Got Texas Theory to demo state and sent off to client
– Worked some on Efiles

7.07.2010
– Cleaned up all the remaining images for Henri Michaux and began stitching them together. Having to accommodate Photoshop not resizing everything exactly the same

7.06.2010
– Imported About and Institutional pages from Texas Theory
Old About Page
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New About Page

Old Institutional Page
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New Institutional Page

The importation involves moving all that content over. So, on the old about/institutional pages all those red links are wiki pages and have to be created and filled with the content from those old wiki pages. At some point those links drill down 3 or so levels. The benefit is easier control for the user.

07.02.2010
– Worked up some mockups for a humanities institute feature

– Began work on eFiles

06.23.2010
– Worked some more on Texas Theory. Kate showed my how to use views to create random images appear. It’s magical

06.16.2010
– Continued getting Texas Theory ready for proposal

06.11.2010
– Drupal and Media meeting
– Continued getting Texas Theory ready for proposal

06.10.2010
– Touched up more Henri Michaux poems
– Moved Texas Theory to another theme, problem fixed

06.08.2010
– Met with Kate and debugged Texas Theory
– Did further debugging on Texas Theory

– Met with Kate again about a problem with Texas Theory. It appears the inner content div has an extra 200 pixels but I can’t find where to eliminate them. Kate and I tried to fix it and could not. I thought I did but didn’t. So, we’ll see…

06.07.2010
– Met with Kate about some problems with Texas Theory. Finished styling, now some for some quick refining
– Finished scanning in poems for HM and started touching them up in Photoshop

06.04.2010
– Ran into a problem with Texas Theory so I switched to Henri Michaux. With Suloni’s help resolved the scanning issue that has been wrecking any progress. Scanned 15 pages without a problem.

06.02.2010
– Continued styling Texas Theory Wiki
– Touched up more Henri Michaux poem pages. The images vary in resolution, making it difficult to stitch together.

06.01.2010
– Began touching up Henri Michaux poem pages
– Began work on styling Texas Theory on my Drupal instance

05.06.2010
– Worked on two versions of Texas Theory mockup. Finished both and delivered to Kate

05.05.2010
– Coded the about page but due to a caching issue can’t see it live unless logged in as administrator. Screencap below:

– Began coding links page at LESCANT dev site

05.04.2010
– Began coding a link page and about us page for LESCANT

05.03.2010
– Scanned in poem for Henri Michaux

The after will be stitched into a 720 wide frame with the other pages and imported into Final Cut Pro

04.30.2010
– Presented work at the STA presentation

04.29.2010
– Finished Texas Theory Mockup
– Refined STA presentation to include SPT

04.28.2010
– Modified STA presentation
– Began to modify colors on rose graphic for Texas Theory

04.27.2010
– Made changes to the Texas Theory Mockup

04.26.2010
– Met with Kate and discussed Texas Theory proposal and mockup

– Finished LESCANT map badges and icon layout. PNGs are created as 256 so they can are fully scalable

04.22.2010
– Began Texas Theory Mockup

04.21.2010
– Finished the LESCANT Image profile – STA Meeting

04.19.2010
– Took last week to focus on some major paper deadlines but now I’m back!
– Finished Texas Theory Wiki Proposal and sent it to Kate
– Began work on tweaking the map profile page for LESCANT

04.08.2010
– Finished LESCANT coding the header images into the site

04.07.2010
– Coded more of the site elements

04.06.2010
– Began coding for LESCANT
– Began work on a mock up of faceted search for LESCANT

04.05.2010
– Finished LESCANT mockup
– Worked on timing in Henri Michaux

03.31.2010
– Henri Michaux needs filters and timing. Next step is scanning in poem and then meeting with Professor Cauvin
– Scanned in images for Pro Bene Meritis project

03.30.2010
– Continued work on Henri Michaux
– Imported images and stitched together for HM
– Worked on timing in Final Cut Pro for HM

03.29.2010
– Modified LESCANT mockup to reflect suggestions by Orlando
– Created a presentation for the STA Presentation
– Rehearsed presentation

03.25.2010
– Finished LESCANT Mockup and uploaded to Basecamp for review
– Resized images for Henri Michaux. Now I will stitch them together and import them into Final Cut Pro.

03.24.2010
– Nearly finished with LESCANT mockup. Been collaborating with Suloni to refine the design. Once finished I will post screen shots for review. I decided to post pictures from early development all the way through it’s current state.
Here’s a link to the DRUPAL instance I coded with valuable support from Stuart.

03.23.2010
– LESCANT Mockup. Almost finished! Looks really solid. Posts some screen shots tomorrow.

03.22.2010
– Continued work with LESCANT

03.15.2010
– LESCANT Development

03.12.2010
– – Met with Daniel about Henri Michaux audio/visual project

03.10.2010
-Continued to work on LESCANT mockup

03.09.2010
-LESCANT Mockup

03.08.2010
– LESCANT is getting a mockup illustrating the levels of navigation and getting imported into Fireworks, which will allow a better visualization on how the various parts of LESCANT interact

03.07.2010
– LESCANT Mockup

03.04.2010
– Finished styling SPT
– Began working on refining LESCANT mockup

03.03.2010
– Client provided new text for homepage, so no scroll bars! Met with Stuart to fix list problem. Formatted questions correctly and highlighted background of categories in Glossary popup.
– DRUPAL Meeting

03.02.2010
– Tried to fix a problem with lists and continued work on script for no scroll bar

03.01.2010
– Began working out the code for no scroll bars on SPT homepage

02.25.2010
– SPT
– Met with Noah and modified mockup. Examples below.

02.24.2010
– STA Meeting

02.23.2010
– Finished SVP mockup and uploaded to Basecamp for Noah’s input

02.22.2010
– Began collaborating with Suloni on new SVP mockup

02.18.2010
– Met with Noah, Daniel, and Suloni to discuss the SVP design. Really good meeting that established a look

02.17.2010
– Met with Stuart again abut SPT, resolved more issues in CSS/HTML

02.16.2010
– Had a mini Adobe Illustrator tutorial with Suloni
– Sketched some logo concepts – Began work on a logo

02.15.2010
– Worked on SPT
– Found reference photos for Geography Environment logo
– Met with Stuart and resolved some CSS problems I had

02.12.2010
– Did some more last touches to SPT – Have to meet with Stuart again and this project is nearing completion

02.11.2010
– Met with Stuart and resolved a problem I had with SPT.

02.10.2010
– Finished SVP Mockup

– Began work on Geography logo

2.09.2010
-Finished up most of SPT!

2.08.2010
– Finished the styling of About/Glossary pop ups on SPT
– Styled other random bits, almost finished!

2.04.2010
– Styled SPT

02.03.2010
– STA Meeting – Fixed transcript button
– refined SVP logo

02.02.2010
– Changed links to blue
– Changed intro text to #8D8680
– Changed intro text to same size as links
– Changed text color in div.content and div.inner_content to #8D8680 and text color in div.quizzes to the brown/black
..etc – That’s the sort of work that is required

02.01.2010
– Styled SPT doing the final tweaking on the code before the website goes live

01.29.2010
– Meeting w/ Peter, Kim, and Noah about SVP. Working out organizational details which will impact the mockup

01.27.2010
– Began developing a mockup for SPV project

– Finished modifications to SPT
– Fixed map button on LESCANT

01.26.2010
– Continued to add elements to SPT – Began work on SPV mockup

01.25.2010
– Worked on SPT and design meeting with Noah, Peter, and Kim
– Styled LESCANT
– Added elements to SPT

01.21.10
– Stuart helped me with LESCANT map button, and SPT
– Continued work on LECSANT

01.20.10
– SPT, LESCANT meeting with Stuart and Suloni
– Worked on LESCANT

01.19.10
– Reacquainted myself with projects
– Met with Suloni about current projects
– Began coding LESCANT map button

12.14.09
– Fixed LESCANT navigation bar

12.11.09
– Began working on navigation bar in LESCANT. Learned how to use sprites and spent the rest of the day trying to find out why it wasn’t working. Click to see sprite used for CSS rollovers

12.10.09
– Styled the remaining areas, now time to fine tune (navigation bar code, header code, etc) and clean up my newbie code 🙂

12.10.09
– Met with Stuart and worked on LESCANT

12.9.09
– Continued Styling the major areas of LESCANT

12.8.09
– Intrepidly manned the dev lab from 12:30p-1:30p
– Intrepidly manned the media lab from 2p-3p
– Continued to style the LESCANT website

12.2.09
– Stuart helped me begin coding the LESCANT website.

11.30.09
– Changed banner and typos on LESCANT mockup

– Created visualizations to illustrate rollover

11.24.09
– Delivered final mockup to Professor Kelm for review.

– Trying to find best way to animate Henri Michaux project. Final Cut Pro is clumsy and doesn’t allow for fine tuning.

11.23.09
– Met with Stuart and Peter to discuss LESCANT/Drupal
– Continued work on LESCANT mockup

11.20.09
– Objectively manned the dev lab from 12:30p-1:30pm
– Objectively manned the media lab from 2:00p-3:00p
– Another variation on a theme. This also shows the 960 grid I’m using to develop these later mockups. So far I think this would be the 3rd or 4th revision. This mockup and the one from 11.19.09 are the versions I will refine a little further and than show to client.

11.19.09
– Refined LESCANT mockup

11.18.09
– STA Meeting
– Early LESCANT Mockup, very rough and unrefined

11.16.09
– Forgot my notebook w/ sketches and notes for LESCANT/Henr Michaux, so I did some image correction.
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11/11/09
– Began LESCANT mockup

– This illustrates how my process to work out how areas will interact. There are no images and zero styling, the importance for me is to see how the spaces relate and than work from there.

11.09.09
– Met with Stuart and went over my Drupal instance [http://dev.laits.utexas.edu/d6_dustin)
– Looked up themes that would suit the project

11.06.09
– Cleaned up images for Henri Michaux

11.04.09
– Met with Stuart and Suloni about the LESCANT project
– Continued to work on Henri Michaux

11.03.09
– Met with Dr. Jean-Pierre Cauvin about the Henri Michaux

10.30.09
– Went over my progress with image correction with Kelly.
– Started image correction on Meso American project
– Went over preliminary details on Lescant

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10.31.09
– Finished my first version of a css site. Learned a lot!
– Image Correction

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10.30.09
– Started on the Henri Michaux project – Shrewdly manned the dev lab from 12:30p-1:30pm
– Shrewdly manned the media lab from 2:00p-3:00p

10.28.09
– STA Meeting – Expertly covered Kim’s Media Lab Shift
– Further cleaned up image

10.27.09
– Finished PRC Thumbnail Mock Ups
– Image Correction, work in progress pictures soon!

10.26.09
– Revised/cleaned up CSS.

10.21.09
– Finished my first version of a css site. Learned ‘a lot’!
– STA Meeting

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10.19.09
– More image correction.
– Majority of the time was spent on CSS. Learned how nesting works and being able to visualize how that works in relation to site design.
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10.16.09
– Image correction feedback with Kelli.
– More image correction, all are still a work in progress.
– Fixed some CSS on Passe Partout website w/ help from Kim
– Peacefully manned the dev lab from 12:30p-1:30pm
– Peacefully manned the media lab from 2:00p-3:00p

10.14.09
– Learned more about CSS. Feel very close to full understanding. Emailed Ran and created a project notes text pad for clarity.
– Burned the PSD files for PRC logo and banner.
– STA Meeting

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10.12.09
– Worked on more CSS tutorials
– Worked on my image correction tutorials for Kelli’s review. They are still in progress. What I’ve completed so far is below.

10.10.09
– Finished PRC logo

– Worked on image correction

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10.09.09
– PRC Mock Ups
– Convincingly manned the dev lab from 12:30p-1:30pm
– Convincingly manned the media lab from 2:00p-3:00p

10.07.09
– Scanned images for Rumrich Presentation
-STA Meeting

9.30.09
– PRC Mock Ups
– STA Meeting
– CSS Tutorial w/ Ran

9.27.09
– Continued with CSS
– Had an awesome Image Correction session with Kelli and a small intro to Adobe Illustrator
– Refined EEJH mock up

9.24.09
– Unflinchingly manned the dev lab from noon-1:30pm
– Unflinchingly manned the media lab from 2:00p-3:00p
– Further developed EEJH mock up – Began familiarizing myself with CSS – Refined China Rising mock up

9.23.09
– STA Meeting/CSS Tutorial – Began developing my Travel wiki banner – Did mandatory training

9.21.09
– Began developing my EEJH webpage mock-up

– Finished developing my China Rising webpage mock-up

9.18.09
– Fearlessly manned the dev lab from noon-1:30pm
– Fearlessly manned the media lab from 2:00p-3:00p
– Began developing my China Rising webpage mock-up

9.16.09
– STA Meeting
– Integrated images into Wiki
– Worked on Texas Politics project

9.14.09
– Finished STA group portrait

– Finished TIGER Mock Up

– Finished TIGER logo

– Began refining TILT logo

9.11.09
– Courageously manned the dev lab from noon-1:30pm
– Courageously manned the media lab from 2:00p-3:00p
– Worked on my STA Group Portrait

-Created two logo mock-ups for PRC.

9.4.09
– Bravely manned the dev lab from noon-1:30pm
– Bravely manned the media lab from 2:00p-3:00p
– Worked on my TIGER mock-up

9.2.09
-Refined Wiki, added bio, created and modified PTMTFSTA.
-Learned how to scan slides.

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11/19- Color Correcting (Adams) + Finger

11/12- Color Correcting (Adams)

11/05- Color Correcting (Adams)

10/29- Color Correcting (Adams)

10/22- Color Correcting for Adams and illustrator finger print

10/15- Banner, Color Correcting, and illustrator

10/8- Banner & Color Correcting

10/1- Banner & Color Correcting

9/24- Color Correcting & Banner

9/17- Started scanning for Hillmann and Adams