POST#6- How my position has changed at SAS

Post #6

Dates: 7/27/15 - 7/30/15
Activities: Using software programs to upload my HTML samples on to SAS's storage, creating messages and creatives of my HTML samples on a SAS program, uploading my images used in my samples onto S3 Amazon Web Services.
Technical information: SharePoint, SAS CI small-rocks platform, and S3 using AWS
Reflection: 

            After coming back from my vacation to Europe I had reached the second half of my internship at SAS. After completing all my HTML samples the next step in my project was to store everything I had created onto SAS's services. In order to do this I needed to store all my samples in one spot for the CI email team to access. The I uploaded messages and creatives of my HTML samples onto small rocks which is one of SAS's programs to test how the samples would look in a real email. But before doing this I needed to upload all the images I used in my samples onto the S3 software program under Amazon Web Services under SAS's storage server.

            After uploading all my HTML samples into SharePoint, a storage program used by SAS, for the CI email team to use and test, I started loading my images into S3. The reason this needed to be done is that so SAS would be able to find and use the images I used in my HTML samples if needed. After storing all my pictures I had to change the urls of the images from being located in my flash drive to being located on S3. This made sure that if someone else opened my HTml sample and did not have my flashdrive, the pictures would still be displayed on the browser window or email client.

            The next step in my project was to make creatives and messages of my HTML samples to later test how they would appear in an email client. I needed to do this because I had recently only tested them in a browser window. To make the creatives I had to learn how to use small-rocks. I was paired up with a tester to learn how to use the program. She went over all the features of small-rocks showing me which ones I would need to use and how to use them. Letting me demo them myself to understand it. She also taught me how to send an email through AWS so I could test my samples in the future. I then proceeded to make all the creatives and messages of my HTML samples to use in an email task to send them to email clients later in the process. In this new chapter of my internship I have learned many valuable skills and have prepared myself for real world situations.

Topic: How my position has changed at SAS