Digital studies website banner & social icons

The past few weeks I’ve continued working to finish up Vlabs as well as continued work on Photo IDs and powerpoints. Most notably I wrapped up the Digital Studies project. Here is the resulting banner for the webpage and social icons we landed on. Going forward I hope to have a face-to-face meeting at the start of graphic projects to ensure I understand the client’s vision clearly. This meeting could prevent the back and forth of email and aid in my efficiency to complete the job. I did enjoy this project as it marked my first graphic design project that I tackled alone. I learned some tricks on how to work quicker on Photoshop and really appreciate Suloni & Valerie’s feedback throughout the process.

Updates on WP Maintenance

I should’ve posted about this before but I actually finished all the maintenance scripts a few weeks back. We now have scripts to add users, remove users, create a new site, update plugins, and update WordPress while optionally keeping the old post editor for a better user experience. All of these are working with a backbone script that handles commonalities between them. I met with Stacy about next steps and, since I’ll probably be handing over the project to someone else next semester, he said that the most important thing was to clean up the project and work on good documentation so that the next person can get up and running with it. I’ve been working on that ever since, cleaning up and commenting my code, and writing a nice README file for the project that explains how it works and how to use it. I think it’s a good experience because I’ll probably have to do the same for projects that I make in future jobs, also its a way to familiarize myself with the markdown language for README files. If I manage to finish all of this before the end of the semester, Stacy said I could probably work on some interactivity for the scripts. Here’s some pictures of the files we have and what my README looks like as of now.

Updates on French Site

During one of my last shifts before Thanksgiving break I spent some time updating the promotional site for French Online. This was basically a complete content overhaul but keeping the same template as before, to match the other language promotional sites. While working on it we also found some small issues with the site. The responsiveness definitely needed some since text would get really small when opening the site on a mobile phone. Also, there were some dead links and content redundancy. The biggest issue was that there was so much contrast between the white background of the page and the dark pictures on the site. Thankfully, Valerie took some time to edit the pictures and make them look more lively. It didn’t take too long to fix it and I think it turned out great.

POWERPOINT COMPLETION 

Here are all the powerpoint I ended up putting together for Thuy PSY project. I can’t include images of the powerpoint content so once again, here is the spreadsheet. Glad I could contribute to this assignments.

LEVERS ON V-LABS

This has been one very long interactive page that I semi pulled apart and placed into the GRAV site. Below are my thorough updates to Maddy on what I did and where everything is located. This had video, interactive, and stills all in one. I think this section completes lab 3 but that will need to be double checked. Now I am just waiting for feedback on any edits that may need to be made.

POSTER ILLUSTRATION: FAREWELL

Project: Piano Tuner Farewell  Poster
Client /Prof: Mike Heidenreich
Completion Status: Started Nov 20, 2019
Staff Guidance: Suloni Robertson and Valerie Tran
Description/Plans: Illustrate a goodbye poster to give to the Linn the piano tuner who will be leaving UT. Find imagery that relates to the job and his interests.
To be Completed: Nov 25, 2019

Here is the finish illustration above. The text boxes have lots of colors on it that are the same for the LAITS logo. It was how I implemented aspects of LAITS into the imagery that wasn’t just plain imagery of the logo.

These are the cartoon like images I made of Mr. Roath and the the piano. I was told he enjoyed sumo wrestlers and appreciated Japanese culture so Suloni and I came up with this look together based off this knowledge .

Suloni also went ahead and edited the image into a card on photoshop. It came out really well with slightly different coloring from the final image.