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This week I continued to work on the Blanton Exhibition pages with Asmita.
We have many more pages to work through.
Had a meeting with Ruben and got a little context into why the project is happening.
The wordpress version the website is using right now has some security vulnerabilities, and some people on the internet want to take advantage of those vulnerabilities.
I haven’t done a ton this week, seeing as I took Wednesday off to see a doctor (no uveitis here, y’all). This week, I nailed down the sequence of the quiz stinger animation with the help of De’sha, worked on photo IDs, and began a cool new project from Maddy.
Wrapping up the quiz stinger feels nice — I feel like I took way too long with it, but I refreshed what little After Effects skills I had and did something productive all the while.
Ingrid and I both had some photo ID troubles, so much that Abriella’s writing up new client communication email templates. Faculty and graduate students alike are trying to submit photos that aren’t in the same universe as our photo ID guidelines, yet are insistent on replacing their older photos (the irony here is that the older photos often do match the criteria). Thanks to carefully worded emails from both of us, the many of the questionable submitters gave us new photos to work with and upload.
My new project, courtesy of Mike and Maddy:
Project: Public-facing articles for LAITS website
Client /Prof: internal
completion status: Started Sept. 17 2021
staff guidance: Maddy Kaniewski
description/plans:Write 3-4 new articles for the LAITS website about cool and impactful STA projects, like Chatter. Interview full-timers and STAs from all departments to get a better idea for possible features and get details cleared up. Find media to embed in Cascade page.
To be completed: December 2021
I’m super excited to spend a lot of my time here this semester learning about other departments (audio, video, studio), the cool things they’re up to, and how they work!
Project: Write-up for a new KB
Client: Design & WebDev STA team
Completion Status: Draft is done; final publish pending.
Staff Guidance: Suloni
STA Team Members: Cristina (t’is me)
Description/Plans: Write a new guide for STAs to reference if working on annotated mock-ups.
I don’t think I had to do that kind of intro for this sort of project… but I haven’t done any of those for my current projects, so I thought I’d give it a go, for practice. Anyway, since I’ve described the premise of this project already, let me tell you why I was assigned to it and how I went about drafting it.
First, I was assigned to this task based on an annotated mock-up I made recently. (You can find it below, on the most recent update on the Texas Beyond History project). So, the steps to go about making something like this were pretty fresh in my mind.
Moving on, I drafted this KB by dividing it into 3 sections: an introduction, a brief list of goals, and the steps to make an annotated mock-up in context. For section 1, I explained why we make stuff like this as STAs, then I defined what mock-ups are in general, and concluded by pointing out why an annotated mock-up is different and important. On section 2, I just listed three goals of the guide, which are to understand the definition, the theoretical & practical applications of these, and how to compliment these with clear client emails. For section 3, I proposed a situation (which is pretty much the same situation I was in when I made the mock-up that started this all), and explained step-by-step how to carry out this task.
Finally, I added two links on trainings for further email and client communication tips, and I made a banner for the KB, once I actually add it in.
I’ll make sure to add the final link here once I publish the KB. For now, this is it…
Here are some Photo ID’s I worked on this week…
That’s it… don’t have much to explain; did some color correction work, and contrast adjustments. I think by this point y’all know how these are made…
Hi, blog it’s been a minute~ it’s me, your favorite photo ID goblin
These past couple weeks have been pretty busy. I’ve been working on lots of COLA Web Refresh-related tasks. Migration first and foremost, but I’ve also been assisting with the interview process for prospective Web Refresh Project STAs and helping coordination feedback processes for the project. We have our first ~weekly check-in~ meeting next Wednesday, which I hope will help answer some STA questions and make the workflow a bit neater.
Besides that? I wrote some WP Publisher-related documentation for the KB, and helped review/copy-edit Estella’s MAMP and Grav KBs.
And of course, photo IDs. So many IDs.
Miscellany: helping Marian more with the BIES site via email and helping Sarah from the Department of Government edit the Cascade as well as coordinate an ID issue with the department head.
But what’s Pirate been up to? Lots. Here’s a picture of her hard at work. In other news, my mom sent a large package of toys to “Captain Pirate McCloud” in the mail.
This week was fairly rote, so I don’t have much new to report on. Most of it was spent on the CoLA Refresh Project, working with Ingrid and Rahul to migrate pages listed on a very big spreadsheet.
Here is one example of a particularly complex page I migrated, and I reformatted it.
This one was linked to 22 subpages which were all reformatted into accordion tabs. I could show you all 22 but there’s not much noteworthy except for a few with tables, which we are trying to find replacements for.