| In 1998 I became a docent at the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Ennis-Brown house in Los Angeles, California. Apart from helping with tours of the house, I was responsible for building the first web site for the house. I was honored to have the opportunity to design a web site for a Frank Lloyd Wright structure, and I wanted to incorporate as many elements of the house's style into the web site as I good, hence the extensive use of varied concrete block graphics. (The entire house is constructed of patterned concrete blocks.) By 2000 my schedule was too busy to continue volunteering at the house or its web site, but many of my graphics and design elements still persist on the site to this day.
The Gift Shop section of the web site. The perforated block graphics to the sides of the different sections would light up when the user moused over the related section; this emulated the backlit concrete blocks found in the foyer of the house.
The tour information and registration page. Most of the content pages on the site were arranged with the block motif as a frame for the contents of the page. Art glass windows and "teak" wood elements are incorporated into the header graphics. This web page was generated from a DocBook XML source document using Saxon. [Printer-friendly Version] |
