Explosive Countermeasures
International - ECI's graphics employ a white paper
textured background. The red, white & blue color scheme is taken
from the company's logo. The red mouseover buttons fit the theme of
the page.
Little Bic's Nubians -
The banner was developed from the Bickel's logo art used on their
business card. The bordered background features light and dark shades
picked from the logo and converted to a marbleized texture. At Cindy's
suggestion the goat head from the logo was applied to the link
buttons.
Powder Horn Toggenburgs
and LaManchas - The central theme for this graphic set is the
Ashcraft's herd sign. The logo banner was constructed from elements
taken from a photograph of the sign. Deneane told me that at shows
they put a frame of fresh ivy around the sign so I took a picture of
the ivy on my house and converted it to a background tile. The link
buttons pick up the colors in the sign. Deneane is an accomplished
photographer and one of her pasture photos was converted into the
banner on the "Our
Farm" page. The letters on the banner are filled with the
image of the sky.
Rowe's Toggenburgs -
The banner and bordered background were developed from a photograph of
one of Joan's does. The text of the banner
is filled with a dark green marble texture and two lighter shades of
the same texture are used in the background.
Silver Hill
Farm Alpines -
This is my own homepage. Each of the pages has a different graphic
set. I change the main page according to the season. The Autumn
version has pictures taken of our farm while the leaves were changing
color. The Winter
version has a blue background of embossed snowflakes and I couldn't
resist the temptation to use the "snow" java applet on a
photo of our farm after a snowfall. The Spring
version was inspired by some of the tubes shared by Jane
Braz on her website.
The Our
Herd page has a red stone background with carved out graphics -
for those who like really vivid color..
The Milkers
page is the same technique in lavender.
The Sires
page has a bordered background, banners and buttons of gold designs arranged over a wood
textured fill. I was trying to go for a more masculine look.
The Junior Does
page was inspired by applying a kaleidoscope effect to a fabric scan.
The Family
page has a background tile made from a scan of an old piece of Christmas
wrapping paper.
Stoney's End Nubians -
Jenny liked the stone texture and carved effect so I made a stone
background using one of the colors from her original logo artwork. The
carved effect was applied to the logo, the ornaments, and the buttons which were made
in the same font as her artwork.
The Virginia State Dairy Goat Assn.,
Inc. - The graphics I made for VSDGA are fairly simple. The background is a
yellow color rather than a graphic. The Sara
Hones logo was colorized in red. The
buttons are red and yellow in a gradient effect. The original VSDGA site
was conceived and designed by Bob Racine and working with him was what first got
me interested in learning to write html.
Walnut Fork and Paisley
Park Alpines - Lynn Benedict's site was my first on-line dairy
goat herd brochure (thank you, Lynn, for all your support) and my
earliest surviving set of graphics. The background is made from Lynn's
logo designed by her daughter Emily.
WebNanny Designs -
I wanted a clean look to set off my WebNanny logo that Sara
Hones painted for me a few years ago. The background is white with
a border in a blue lined paper texture. The mouseover buttons were
made using a gradient fill. For my Webhosting
page I designed a set inspired by the turquoise, silver, and black
Native American theme of Winterwood's 2000 Spotlight Sale display.
Winterwood LaManchas -
Because one of the owners, Ann Hodges, is an artist, I was supplied
with plenty of material to work with. The background was made from one
of Ann's stenciled watercolors, with a solid blue border added.
Elements of the logo banner were taken from a photo of the logo
embroidered on a show shirt. Anne supplied the goat hoofprints and I
made them into beveled icons. The divider bar of "paperdoll"
goats comes from more of Ann's artwork. Interspersed throughout the
site are Ann's original cartoons that I colorized and resized.
Blue
Brush Exercise
Silver
Hill Holiday Season Main Page
Stone
Texture with carved Celtic designs
Spring
Garden Flowers - a graphics set based on digital photos of
flowers in my yard.
