{"id":168,"date":"2014-12-01T04:19:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T04:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/?p=168"},"modified":"2014-12-02T16:42:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T16:42:29","slug":"fond-farewell-for-the-old-wavegarden-arts-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Fond Farewell for the Old WaveGarden Arts Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DECEMBER 1st 2014 marks the final day for my original WaveGarden Arts website. It had a great run and encapsulated the internet era in which it was crafted. Built using Flash, it had the roll-over buttons, hand-animated graphics, rich colors, and a sense of style that was all its own. All the buttons and menus on the site were hand-drawn in colored pencil, and kept true to the aesthetic of the studio itself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/WGA_Site-Old.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-169\" src=\"http:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/WGA_Site-Old-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Original WaveGarden Arts site\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/WGA_Site-Old-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/WGA_Site-Old.jpg 821w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Here was the home page in all its glory, full of color, easy to navigate (I thought so at least, haha. And it handled a fair amount of traffic in its day. I actually did first try to replicate it exactly for this new incarnation of the website, but ended up going in a different direction. But that old site really was fantastic and this new one has a lot to live up to, haha.\u00a0So tip of the hat old WaveGarden Arts website, you rocked!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DECEMBER 1st 2014 marks the final day for my original WaveGarden Arts website. It had a great run and encapsulated the internet era in which it was crafted. Built using Flash, it had the roll-over buttons, hand-animated graphics, rich colors, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/?p=168\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}