Practicum: Day 16 - 17

Yesterday, I got to help on a new project =D
We are building a custom Wordpress site for a local roofing company and my supervisor already had most of it done. I only had to add a few things here and there and create a few new custom pages.

Now that I've done custom pages a few times and know how to pull content from the Wordpress back-end, creating the pages did not take me as long as I thought...
What did take a long time was me trying to put in a jQuery slider on the home page that rotates certain testimonials. I have come to the conclusion that I am horrible at Javascript/jQuery =(

The good news is that at least I got the slider thing to work before I left for the day!

Today consisted primarily of photo-editing and enhancing as I was picking out images for the website's gallery and making banners.

Layers and layers of banners!

I also got a chance to join a meeting today. We reviewed one of the completed website's content and how the website's current SEO health is and now it can be further improved. It is amazing how much you can learn in an hour and a half.

Bad news is that I broke the navigation on the website and did not have time to fix it and will have to leave that for tomorrow... like I said... I am no good with Javascript/jQuery...

Practicum: Day 11 - 15 recap

It has been a busy week at my practicum and I feel like I have totally melted my brain by the end of today.

I had been finishing up some interactive elements and plugins for the project I've been working on.

The tabs on the homepage now have a cover triangle that move to whichever tab is active =D

And this took sooooo long to figure out, but isotope is finally working on the website and now visitors can filter the website's projects by location AND type. Woohoo!

Another brain-cell killing problem was when the carousel gallery was not working the way it was supposed to; images would not load until half way on the page, the slider would sometimes have an enormous height... and some other problems. The good news is that we have fixed all of this now!

I did get some breaks from coding here and there, editing some graphics and doing some data-entry tasks, but for the most part, my week consisted of staring at screens that looked like this:

Something special that happened this week though, was that I got the chance to tag along with my practicum supervisor to a meeting with a client and the web marketing specialist. I felt like a little baby learning to walk while I was in that meeting... I had no idea how little I knew about web marketing until the meeting. I was glad I got the opportunity to sit in =)

I feel like it was such a fulfilling week because we have finished 98% of the project I've been working on - 1% because we are lacking content, the other 1% is because we have not implemented the SEO and web marketing tools yet.

The other big project I have been helping my colleague out on is officially live now! Compared to what my colleagues have done, I feel like what I have done to help is almost nothing because it was such a big project.

Anyway... TGIF!
It's time to get some rest =)

Practicum: Day 10

Whoa. I have been exposed to so many mobility and accessibility equipments and accessories these past couple days because of the photo editing we have been doing. We have been editing and cleaning up photos to make sure that all products are on white backgrounds (as shown below), which took up the majority of the day.

The great news is that we have finished all the product photo editing!

The latter part of the day, I got to play with code again, to make sure that post excerpts on the Wordpress theme would show up differently according to the length of the posts.

I was pretty proud of the result!
The excerpts would show up in different ways =D

I am going to implement isotope into the theme, as suggested by my practicum supervisor, to use as the visual sorting system when visitors want to filter out projects. I have a feeling I will be spending my whole Monday doing that. Haha.