Day Twenty: 4/9/13

Today, I worked on a booklet for the Rotary Golf tournament. The booklet has a bunch of different sponsors for the event, containing advertisements and so on. Since the event isn't for a while, there isn't much content to put in the booklet. I added a couple of advertisements to get the booklet started.

Day Nineteen: 4/4/13

Today, I did some web design for the Yale School of Nursing. There are currently two websites that the school of nursing is constantly updating, and those websites are nursing.yale.edu, and dev.sleep.yale.edu

The former is Yale School of Nursing's main website, which displays news, information, and everything else you need to know about the School of Nursing. It is a standard university website that is constantly updating as new information comes in every week.

The other website is for Yale's Sleep Center research program, which is still in early development and cannot be accessed through the use of a public connection. One must be connected to Yale's secure wireless network in order to get to the website.

Both sites use versions of Drupal, an in-browser web editing program. The nursing website uses Drupal 6, while the Sleep Center website uses Drupal 7.

I added a few new News Stories to the School of Nursing's main website, keeping the website up to date with upcoming events and other news that was posted to the front page. I learned the basics of Drupal during this process and managed a variety of content on the website in the process.

Since the Sleep Center website is still in development, a lot of it's information was missing. I was given a hefty amount of content that was to be added to the website before it goes public. This included new pages, new navigation tools, and so on. This expanded my knowledge on Drupal even further and I'm glad I got the experience in it.

Day Twenty Seven: 5/2/13

Our last day at the Yale School of Nursing! Today, supervisor John Powers and his assistant Meghan Murphy (who was a former Quinnipiac student that used to intern at the School of Nursing) took us out to lunch. We walked around New Haven and went to Prime 16, a burger place in downtown New Haven. It was a very nice treat from Mr. Powers, and I really appreciate the great opportunity he gave me. Working on graphic design for the Yale School of Nursing was an amazing experience and I'm glad I decided to intern there.

Day Twenty Six: 4/30/13

Today, I continued working on the Cardio-oncology pamphlet for the School of Nursing. This pamphlet was a big challenge because it was an all-text project. Typically, pamphlets have images on a few pages or so, but this one was all text. I made a graphic to run along the top border, and worked around with some text effects so it wasn't all plain text. I think the final result came out nicely. Below you can find a couple of pages of the finished project:

Day Twenty Five: 4/25/13

Today was a pretty slow work day. I worked on more images for the school's website, which involved me taking pictures of of both the digital camera and the Flickr account, and fixing them up for the website (and to re-post on the flickr account with better quality). These images were from the Bellos Lecture event, which is an event I made a flyer for previously.

Before

After

I also worked on a pamphlet for a lecture that was being held in mid May. The pamphlet is titled "Cardio-Oncology" and gave detailed information on how to keep your heart healthy. It is still in the works as of now.

Day Twenty Four: 4/23/13

Today, I was feeling ill and could not make it to the School of Nursing. I offered to work from home as I was recovering, but my supervisor John Powers said that there was nothing that needed to be completed urgently.

Day Twenty Three: 4/18/13

Today, I worked on a flyer for a memorial event for Donna Diers, a member of the School of Nursing who recently passed away. When a member of the school of nursing passes away, there is always a memorial event held to celebrate the life of that person. They like to keep these flyers relatively similar throughout the years, so I used an old flyer from a previous memorial event as my inspiration.

I also worked on making PDF pages of the Yale Nursing Matters magazine. It is a monthly magazine that the School of Nursing publishes that contains various information on nursing and other events going on with YSN. My task was to take the magazine and make separate PDFs of each page, that way each story can be grouped together in their own PDF document and sent to their respective writers.