Cool websites

It took me a while to find a great website. Second Story had some well-designed sites that I really liked, but none of them really had anything to do with architecture. I loved the Lewis and Clark site, but it had nothing to do with architecture. But I liked the way it was organized into three parts, which I see my site in three parts; history, preservation efforts, and photo gallery. It had sounds, interactive maps, exhibit gallery, video clips of Native Americans, and it presented the story from multiple view points. All of these were great features.

There was one site on css Zen Garden called Urban that came closer to something I could envision. I like how it used architectural features for the border on the left that served as the navigation bar, and it had a picture of buildings as the footer to the page. I could do something similar to this and get a real look and feel for an architectural district.

Another site I came across which I also could emmulate, PBS's site for a Ken Burns film about Frank Lloyd Wright. This website used Frank Lloyd Wright architectural features as the overall background for the pages (the wrapper) and then each subsection had a different background color and some kind of Wright-styled architecutral feature on the left. Although each sebsection was a different color, all the colors worked with FLW styling, and the architectural images on the left kept all the sections together. It has a nice introduction page with an image that draws you in. There's a well-designed menu on the bottom of the page that keeps with the theme in design, although it's a wierd place for a menu to be. Of all the websites I visited, this is probably the best example that I've seen so far of something I would want to emulate that would be within the realm of possibilities for me to create. It's not so far advanced in design like most of the Second Story or Terra Incognita sites that I wouldn't feel overwhelmed trying to do something like this.