More V-Labs Done

I completed three V-Labs today. One that isn’t shown here was just a static image that needed to be added into the GRAV site. Olivia put it all together for that one. The flow chart below was started by Maddy, and I just added the rest of the pop ups, exported the psd, assembled in canvasser, and placed into the site. The last two images were a screenshot that needed to be inserted. I changed it to the styling that we use. All this while the office was being renovated. Pretty productive day.

C L I O    C A R D I O

I took up a bunch of CLIO to do because I was finally able to catch up on a bunch of work that I had assigned to me. I finished all of these today in the 4 hours that I was in the office. Some of them have weird bits in terms of formatting that I need confirmation on from Valerie and some captions need to be fixed. Other than that I am sprinting through! (I couldn’t find the name of the artist who made the GIF. If I find out I will update this post.)

CLIO UPDATES

I have started working on CLIO. Pretty new to everything on here and how to go into the source code to edit things but I managed to figure stuff out between me and Thuy. There were a couple of things I couldn’t edit such as adding headers to blocks that had no header title so I left them out. Additionally I was not sure how some of the blocks with many images should be strung together to I left them expanded and added the solid light peach background to all the images.

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.