Toward the end of your STA Orientation, you’ll design and upload a banner to go at the top of this page.
Upload a Blog Banner
Step One: Design Your Banner in Photoshop
Use these Photoshop specs when you’re making your banner:
- Your banner should be 780 pixels wide (the height doesn’t matter)
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- Must include your name, your major, and your expected graduation year
- Your banner should reflect who you are (your personality, interests or major)
- Make sure to save your banner for the web (i.e. File > Export > Save for Web (Legacy))
- If you save your banner as a JPG, make sure sure the quality is high (i.e. at least 60)
Step Two: Save Your Banner
- There are two places you can save your completed projects: UT Box and the LAITS server. You’ll be given a personal folder in both locations. For now, you only have to save your banner to UT Box, but you may have to access the server at some point in the future.
Accessing UT Box
- If you haven’t already registered with Duo, follow the instructions here to set up an account.
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- Then log in to UT Box with your EID and password: http://utexas.box.com/
- Go to the folder called Design-Coding-STAs, then the subfolder STA-folders
- Find the folder with your name on it
- Save your banner both as an image and an unmerged PSD
Accessing the LAITS server
- Accessing the LAITS server from off-campus is slightly more complicated.
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- You’ll need to be registered with Duo if you aren’t already (you can register here).
- Then you’ll need to connect to the UT VPN and the LAITS server. The videos below will walk you through how to do that:
- Then navigate to your STA volume folder and save
- smb://file.laits.utexas.edu/sta/Rachel Sacks
- Save your banner both as an image and an unmerged PSD
Step Three: Upload Your Banner to the STA Blog
- Log in the the STA Blog here. You should’ve received an email confirming your new WordPress account with your username and assigned password. If didn’t get it or you can’t log in, ask Suloni or another STA.
- You’ll be able to change your password anytime by going to Users > Your Profile > Account Management > New Password.
Uploading media and banners in WP
- Read these links before you upload your banner.
- They will walk you through how to upload media to your blog.