Opinions on these web frames?

**David_Senesac** · 30-Oct-2006, 17:42

I was playing around today with cascading style sheet coding trying to create unique and interesting ways to frame images. I began working on a way to give an image some depth looking into the frame using perspective geometries and came up with the following. There are some more sophisticated things I've done in the past with say gradient fill techniques in Photoshop, however with CCS my aim was a frame with simple code that wouldn't need to be re-edited much each time beyond plugging an image's X and Y dimensions on a spread sheet then inputing the few calculated values into the .html file. I wanted a dark frame that didn't detract from the image while adding something interesting beyond just using the usual black or dark gray background. With the following I can easily change the dark background color which adds a nice yet subtle effect.

Note for comparison, the three images are from my recent fall photography work for which I also have a link on my website homepage to a fall foliage road trip story that includes a slideshow that shows the same images in a java script slideshow that uses a black background. ...David

http://www.davidsenesac.com/Fall_2006/06-GG9-1c.html

http://www.davidsenesac.com/Fall_2006/06-HH13-4c.html

http://www.davidsenesac.com/Fall_2006/06-II3-1c.html

**Walter Calahan** · 30-Oct-2006, 18:00

K.I.S.S.

What do I know? Seems a little too much for my eye. IMHO.

**Frank Petronio** · 30-Oct-2006, 18:20

I'm kind of dizzy from them. Not in a good way either... sorry

**Marko** · 30-Oct-2006, 19:35

What Walter and Frank said.

Also, these are not "web frames", the correct term is "borders".

"Web Frames" are part of "Framesets", those obsolete multi-part pages that won't bookmark properly, won't print and, worst of all, won't go away...

**Kirk Gittings** · 30-Oct-2006, 20:00

I don't like any of them. They dimenish your images. Give your images some room, let them breath. The frames just crowd them.

**Frank R** · 31-Oct-2006, 07:40

Did anyone else notice that the base of the birch tree pairs (second image) look like hooves? Like the lower legs of some creature.

Wierd.

And cool.

**David_Senesac** · 31-Oct-2006, 08:40

Thanks people for taking the time to comment. Aprreciated I think you all are correct about the odd effect. In fact that is one reason I designed it to be dim as when brighter I noted that effect is even more so. Thus I'll retire that idea unless I ever sell to Saturn-ites, haha. I do have some other ideas using gradients I've used before but that will have to wait till I return from yet another open ended road trip to shoot more dogwood. ...David

[QUOTE=Frank R;191178]Did anyone else notice that the base of the birch tree pairs (second image) look like hooves? Like the lower legs of some creature.QUOTE]

Thanks Frank you are so right. I hadn't noticed.

**Michael Gordon** · 31-Oct-2006, 09:37

I'm not a fan of the frames either, David. Way too busy. If you're going to invest this kind of effort, I think you should at least show them similar to how they'll be sold.

Also, your code doesn't work well in Firefox. I get two totally different apperances in IE and Firefox.