Mick Redman: twenties

Monday, 16 May 2011

Use of textures for 1920s feel.

This is an example page in the style of the 1920s, I'm sure some would say art-deco. The main thing for me is the use of textures, appropriate images, borders and backgrounds.

See demo.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
<title>Mobile friendly liquid layout #7</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/reset.css">
<title>Twenties</title>
<style>
@font-face {
font-family: 'RaconteurNFRegular';
src: url('fonts/raconteurnf-webfont.eot');
src: local('☺'), url('fonts/raconteurnf-webfont.woff') format('woff'), url('fonts/raconteurnf-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'), url('fonts/raconteurnf-webfont.svg#webfont6VTANDte') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}

html, body
{
font-family:Sans-serif;
height:100%;
margin: 0 auto;
background:#FFD073 url(images/seamlesspaper.jpg);
color:#000000;
}
#container
{
height:60%;
margin: 0 auto;
width:920px;
}
#contentWrapper, #contentHolder
{
position:relative;
behavior: url(scripts/PIE.htc);
}
#contentWrapper
{
width:500px;
float:left;
border:8px solid #A67B25;
-webkit-border-radius: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 10px;
border-radius: 10px;
behavior: url(scripts/PIE.htc);
opacity:0.8;
filter:alpha(opacity=80);
}

#contentHolder
{
margin:4px;
border:2px solid #000000;
-webkit-border-radius:4px;
-moz-border-radius: 4px;
border-radius: 4px;
}

#contentHolder p
{
margin:8px;
font-family:serif;
font-size:1.1em;
line-height:140%;
color:#000000;
text-align:justify;
}

h1
{
font-family: 'RaconteurNFRegular';
font-size:4em;
color:#000000;
}

img.city
{
float:left;
width:400px;
}

#footer
{
height:40%;
clear:both;
background:url(images/cityborder.png) repeat-x;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<h1>The Roaring Twenties</h1>
<div id="contentWrapper">
<div id="contentHolder">
<p>Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Vestibulum tortor quam, feugiat vitae, ultricies eget, tempor sit amet, ante. Donec eu libero sit amet quam egestas semper. Aenean ultricies mi vitae est. Mauris placerat eleifend leo. Quisque sit amet est et sapien ullamcorper pharetra. Vestibulum erat wisi, condimentum sed, commodo vitae, ornare sit amet, wisi. Aenean fermentum, elit eget tincidunt condimentum, eros ipsum rutrum orci, sagittis tempus lacus enim ac dui. Donec non enim in turpis pulvinar facilisis. Ut felis. Praesent dapibus, neque id cursus faucibus, tortor neque egestas augue, eu vulputate magna eros eu erat. Aliquam erat volutpat. Nam dui mi, tincidunt quis, accumsan porttitor, facilisis luctus, metus</p>
</div>
</div>
<img src="images/cityArtDeco.png" class="city" />
</div>
<div id="footer"></div>
</body>
</html>