{"id":675,"date":"2016-07-15T18:38:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T18:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/?p=675"},"modified":"2016-07-15T18:38:23","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T18:38:23","slug":"web-site-graphics-video-game-law-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/2016\/07\/15\/web-site-graphics-video-game-law-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Site Graphics: Video Game Law Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I developed the web site for the authors of the Video Game Law Book, I had to work within the limitations of the theme and the lack of full customization abilities (translation: no access to CSS files). Making a header and homepage image was the primary way to make this web site their own without too many visual bells and whistles.<\/p>\n<p>For the header, I created a subtle pattern made up of binary code spelling out &#8220;Video Game Law Book&#8221; with some dividers to add a little colored contrast. This was so that the design wouldn&#8217;t distract from the site&#8217;s title:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-676\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/suits02Header960x180_760px.png\" alt=\"suits02Header960x180_760px\" width=\"760\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/suits02Header960x180_760px.png 760w, http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/suits02Header960x180_760px-300x56.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As for the homepage, I came up with a joystick morphing into the scales of justice illustrated comic book style for a Pop Art type of effect. Colorful and eye-catching without it overwhelming the entire site for the user:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-677\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/scaleJoystickSiteImage600px.png\" alt=\"scaleJoystickSiteImage600px\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/scaleJoystickSiteImage600px.png 600w, http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/scaleJoystickSiteImage600px-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/scaleJoystickSiteImage600px-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I developed the web site for the authors of the Video Game Law Book, I had to work within the limitations of the theme and the lack of full customization abilities (translation: no access to CSS files). Making a header and homepage image was the primary way to make this web site their own without too many visual bells and whistles. For the header, I created a subtle pattern<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn read-more-btn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/2016\/07\/15\/web-site-graphics-video-game-law-book\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}