It is photo ID season here in the office right now. There were many to be done or are many to be done. Valerie has been assigning them out to all the STAs based off of everyone’s workload. These photos were fairly easy to edit the only issues were making it less purple and red and adjusting the face slightly brighter so it is more visible in the 80 x 90 pixel frames.
The last time I worked on this webpage, I left off on styling the menu to be responsive. Now the menu is displayed horizontally to not conflict with the rest of the content on the page. The major elements are all responsive so the next steps would be to style them properly, like giving the list items in the menu enough padding, and then fix the smaller issues that arise when the screen size is reduced.
Hello,
Recently, I’ve done handled some photo ID requests that were sent in. Here they are:
Also, I got some training on Canvasser (thanks @Estella!) and worked on my first two vLabs modules!
Finally, I’ve been working with Stacy a good amount on getting Life and Letters set up. Through our pair development sessions, we’ve been able to establish a good starting point on the PHP that will allow me to jumpstart into the CSS (atleast for the homepage!) Here’s what the page looks like right now, visually and in HTML:
If you look closely at the HTML, you can see that we’ve been able to specify specific properties (number of posts, category type) for each “group” on the page.
These specific properties are useful because they’re what allows us to distinguish one group from another. Through the CSS, then, we can tell the browser that the entry-category-features group might have an image that’s large and centered, while the entry-category-blog group might have smaller images that are left-aligned, and so on.
A big shoutout+thank you to Stacy for sitting down with me so often and guiding me through the intricacies of WordPress! By no means am I an expert now, but I’ve definitely gained a good chunk of knowledge ; – )
I have begun to take web support requests from Liberal Arts faculty having issues with web editor tools. For one of these requests, though, I had to actually document a solved issue within the LAITS knowledge base. I had to do some extended research on the topic I was doin to make sure I understood it fully enough to document correctly. I ended up discovering a few special cases along the way.
https://sites.la.utexas.edu/kb/2019/10/16/how-to-delete-a-cascade-page/
I’ve completed my first canvasser! The software for the most part is easy to use and suits the tasks I have. After being trained by Estella, and struggling through the first iteration of an interactive, trying to figure out all the of UI elements and settings, things get pretty methodical. It’s definitely satisfying when everything comes together.
https://laits.utexas.edu/canvasser/canvasser_content/vlabslab12/lab12section2relativebrainsizethroughtime.html
I practiced reducing hotspots in three photo IDs. The first two had bright reflections of light on the forehead, cheeks and nose. The third photo had a bright reflection on the side of the head. I didn’t entirely remove the hotspots, I just reduced the brightness so that areas were not blown out of the photo and looked more natural. I like editing the photo IDs because each photo presents its own problems which pushes me to learn a new tool or technique that I hadn’t used before.
One new issue I encountered was the combination of dark glasses and a bright, white shirt that was blown out. I couldn’t bring the brightness of the shirt down because the quality would degrade since the pixels that were blown out aren’t there anymore. And the darkness in the lenses couldn’t be brightened much while also maintaining an even color across the face. I brightened the photo a bit but I wonder how others would approach this issue.
