The Mill Bar
The Mill is the newest addition to Melbourne City's Hardware Lane precinct.
A converted warehouse, the Mill combines the best of both worlds:
- eating and drinking
- with charm and finesse on two floors.
Brief
When The Mill was still just a construction site, Michelle approached us to develop a website that would reflect their plans. They provided us with their logo and we had a walk around their premises to try to visualize the style of the bar/restaurant. They wanted a site that would be visually appealing to their web users as well as provide all the information you would usually expect from a site of that type: up-to-date news and event listings, food and drink menus, function information and a mailing list for monthly newsletters.
Solution
Upon receiving their logo, we decided straight away to use it as the main design feature of the site. As they wanted an aesthetically pleasing and interactive site, we developed the site in Flash, which provided us with the ability to add interactive elements and do such things as animate their logo. Behind the scenes, we also provided a CMS so they could update the dynamic areas of the site such as the news listings and menus. We also developed a HTML newsletter template which they use in combination with our e-newsletter system to send out monthly newsletters.
Features
- Fully Content Managed sections (menus, news, gallery) using MMR's own Multi-Manage CMS
- Flash Photo Gallery
- Interactive, flip-book style food and drink menus
Technologies
- Flash 8 and HTML/CSS
- PHP server-side scripting
- MySQL database
