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.

Ethics and Fairness in AI Logo Design

 

For this design, I was instructed to create a logo that represented the ethics in AI. This logo design has been a rollercoaster.

Since AI typical icons are brains, I wanted to create something different since I have already created a brain for the other icon. Therefore, it was best to focus on the ethics side and include AI elements.

 

Here is all the overly complicated designs I created:

 

Honestly, Maddy has been a tremendous help with getting me to simplify my designs and approach the design in different ways.

 

This is the direction we are currently working toward with minor adjustments.

 

 

 

Machine Learning Final

This was the final logo choice for this course. It is a brain with a white circle at a 50% opacity to represent a magnify glass.

 

I was also instructed to create a quick animatic to help JP know how the animation sequence would play out.

COLA Web Refresh

Things have been slowly but surely speeding up for this project. I’m going to help a new CM STA onboard Wednesday morning, and in the meantime I have been going over existing Pages tasks and making sure everything is in order as well as helping Adrian and Rahul with any questions. (I’ve also been making some edits to the spreadsheet since the workflow is still a bit wonky.) We’ve been making sure to add alt text for image components as well as double and triple check that links aren’t dead. Pretty soon, I will start drafting and reviewing client communication emails to be sent out to the relevant contacts, detailing what’s been done and any outstanding issues or suggestions (updating links, removing arcane info, refreshing graphics) we may have.

On a related note, Suloni reached out to Angie and I on making some guidelines for photo editing for CM STAs, who have varying degrees of proficiency in PS. The graphics question is becoming a big one, especially for the Dean’s sites that we’re migrating now; many of them haven’t been touched in years, far less than department or center sites, and so several images and graphics are suboptimal (low res, out of date, wrong size, ugly). For CM STAs who are more web dev-y, the guidelines will be a basic guide to using adjustment layers in Photoshop as well as guidelines on resizing / cropping photos (and when not to). There is also the possibility of more complex graphic refreshes, which may either be completed within the CM STA team or by a design STA.

Photo IDs

I’ve been continuing to complete photo IDs, as well as contribute to a collaborative updated photo ID guideline doc w/ Angie, Megan, Abriella, and Suloni to detail procedures for trickier photo ID situations + client communication.

HIS 315K PPTs

I’ve been working on reformatting powerpoints whenever they come in for Zamora’s HIS 315K class (usually a day or two in advance).

Misc

• I’ve been looking at web dev documentation from Estella and Thuy and copyediting / trying them out myself :~)
• More low priority, but I’ve been editing the animation script to include a list of characters, styles, bgs in each scene