History of Moyra's Web Jewels
First Efforts
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Moyra's
Web Jewels began on June 19, 1997. Her very first (as far as I know) web
site is saved for
posterity at webarchive.org, as Moyra's
Web Jewels. The address of the site was www.mysticpc.com/jewels.
The navigational interface for the site, shown smaller in the picture above,
was made of a large gold and silver fractal design with large jewels on
it. (Please note that all the screenshots included in this history are
much lower in quality than the originals, because they were derived from a
screenshot, because they were saved as .gifs rather than (in some cases) the
.bmps of the originals, and because they have been shrunk.) The interface
was later used as a linking logo, which is how I first saw it. Seeing
the large interface, I now understand where that little logo came
from.
The
page title graphic (not shown here, but found on the same page as the logo shown
above) is smaller, with some swirls of what looks like gold lace, with jewels
and the words, "Moyra's Web Jewels." There are also individual large
jewels mounted in gold at the top of the page, which are links to various
parts of the site, and a jeweled bracelet for a page divider.
Since
webarchive.org has removed the backgrounds from Moyra's interfaces, we do not
know how they appeared originally, except that they were clearly meant for a
dark background. I have taken the liberty of placing the small replica
above (and one on the following page) on a black background, so that you may
have some idea of how they originally appeared.
The
individual elements and sets that were available from Moyra's first Web Jewels
website" can be visited by clicking on the large jewels at the top of each
page. Sadly, none of the actual sets, nor the pages they were on, appear
to be archived. I have been able to find some of them, and in other
cases I believe that separate elements were later combined into a set, such
as the flower bullets and dividers becoming the Flowers Set and the various
butterflies eventually becoming Our Lady of the Butteflies. Some of them
were carried on to the future Web Jewels sites, such as the Cultural
ones.
Here
are all the sets (in their individual categories) that were listed on Moyra's
first web site. The sets of the week for this first week were
"Discreet Dimensions" and "PC Set," both of which can be found in the
Museum Galleries. The sets I've found (or tentatively identified) are
indicated below with an asterisk, indicating that you can find them in the
Museum Galleries as well.
| Nature Coral Reef Set* Spring Set* Summer Set* Autumn Set* Winter Set* Flower Buttons* (in the Flowers Set?) Flower Dividing Bars* Flower seamless wallpapers* Flower Animated Button* Rainbow Ranunculus Buttons* 14 Butterflies* Assorted Bugs Three Suns Iceplant Set Stones Opalescent Set Pearl Buttons Multicolored Cabochon cut oval jewels Multicolored Cabochon cut round jewels Marble-ish 1 Set - very muted colors* Sand and Turquoise Set Six Stone E Mail Stamps Five Marble Mythic Beasts Five Golden Mythic Beasts* (as in King Arthur's Bestiary?) Cultural Arabian Nights Set* Egypt Set* Greece Set* Rome Set* Pompei Set* Arabesque Set* Byzantine Set* Celtic Set* Medieval Set* Chinese Set* Alhambra Set* |
Discreet Discreet set 1 - earth tones Discreet set 2 - cloud colors Grey Talk Boxes Subtle Blues Set Five Patterned e-mail stamps Discreet Dimensions* Vibrant Psychedelia Set 1 Arrow Buttons 1 Oval Buttons 1 Intense Colored Talk Boxes Vibrant Suns Reality & Astrology Eyecons Messy Paint [could be Absinthe Fauvism?] Gold & Silver Suns Silver Moons Gold & Silver Zodiac Hands (fleshtones) Lunation Bar Twelve Zodiac Metal Bars Horoscope Sun and Moon Money Set* Astrology Set 1* One World Set* PC Set* Textures (Abstract) Blue Textured Set 1 Seven Subtly Colored Seamless Papers Reds, greens and blues textured Set Abstract Set 1 (pastels) Abstract Set 2 (bright earth tones) Abstract Set 3 (aquamarines & blues) Swirls Set 1 Metallic Blue Texture Set |
As
you can see, Moyra's categories for her art were already in place on this
first website. The site also included The Golden Rule," Moyra-style,
and a section containing "Pixelita's Advice for Aspiring Pixel Pushers."
(Even her very first website contained advice for others!) Thus, we see
that all of the essentials of the highly successful Moyra's Web Jewels were
already in place when she first started out.
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