Task
Work with the associate dean for equity, inclusion and diversity to create a landing page for a community engagement conference for Virginia Commonwealth University and public attendees.
My Role
The main hero image, speaker images and text was provided and it was my job to design, code and launch the page using existing plugins.
Featured In
VCU invites community to participate in Connect: Community Engagement Conference on Nov. 2
VCU News
Oct. 24, 2022
Desktop
Mobile
Challenges
The web template for the project is particularly buggy and it is one I do not have access to, so more CSS overrides than usual were required to achieve the desired product. Also, the content trickled in over time versus all at once, so some adjustments had to be made to my initial design to incorporate expanded content. For example, a later request was to add bios for all the conference speakers (26 of them!). In order to incorporate those without adding to the page scroll, I programmed modals linked to each speaker’s name.
A Template for Others
Since this initial page was created, it has been redeployed several times for other CHS symposia and conferences. Examples:
Featured Skills
- Concepting and device-agnostic design
- Coordination and communication
- HTML, CSS, Javascript
- WCAG
- Creative problem-solving
Jen Elswick 