Making Old, New
There was a very popular thing to do back in the mid 90's that was only possible because of the fact that almost all monitors were 800x600 for a long time. It was a trick where you used a background that would be the perfect size to make it look like your web-page had borders on each side.
This specific technique is, of course, not possible to do anymore now with how monitors are getting up into the 4K side of things, and for a while I've wanted to re-create this look, using more modern scripts and techniques. So naturally I had to find a page using one of Moyra's old backgrounds and re-tool it.
https://rowen.tripod.com/xena/battlecry.html
Here you can see for yourself exactly what these layouts look like, now.
http://armaina.com/layouts/greekborder/
And after spending a few hours in it today, this is my final result. I cut up the image, made PNGs with transparent shadows for each of the boarders, then made the textured background it's own element to tile. The rest is, of course, just me messing around and spending more time making the elements prettier than I needed them to be.
All in all I'm pretty happy with the result, learned some new things on a personal level in the process. (my code gets a little nicer looking every time I try digging into these things) I would like to find more of Moyra's old stuff like this to splice up and script them into little things like this for people to be able to download and use for themselves if they so want. Will make little layouts of my own, eventually, but this is a fun endeavor, and I'd like her work to live-on... (unless she ever comes back..)
*longingly looks in the direction of Moyra's Web Jewels archive*
"I just want her back"
This specific technique is, of course, not possible to do anymore now with how monitors are getting up into the 4K side of things, and for a while I've wanted to re-create this look, using more modern scripts and techniques. So naturally I had to find a page using one of Moyra's old backgrounds and re-tool it.
https://rowen.tripod.com/xena/battlecry.html
Here you can see for yourself exactly what these layouts look like, now.
http://armaina.com/layouts/greekborder/
And after spending a few hours in it today, this is my final result. I cut up the image, made PNGs with transparent shadows for each of the boarders, then made the textured background it's own element to tile. The rest is, of course, just me messing around and spending more time making the elements prettier than I needed them to be.
All in all I'm pretty happy with the result, learned some new things on a personal level in the process. (my code gets a little nicer looking every time I try digging into these things) I would like to find more of Moyra's old stuff like this to splice up and script them into little things like this for people to be able to download and use for themselves if they so want. Will make little layouts of my own, eventually, but this is a fun endeavor, and I'd like her work to live-on... (unless she ever comes back..)
*longingly looks in the direction of Moyra's Web Jewels archive*
"I just want her back"