http://ericmillerdesign.com/blog/post/ en eric@ericmillerdesign.com Copyright 2012 2012-04-11T21:14:24+00:00 http://ericmillerdesign.com/blog/post/2012_webby_awards_select_eric_miller_design_in_two_categories http://ericmillerdesign.com/index.php/site/2012_webby_awards_select_eric_miller_design_in_two_categories/#When:21:14:24Z Eric Miller Design has been named an Official Honoree in the 16th Annual Webby Awards for our work on the car racing site Vanderbilt Cup Races. The website has been honored in both the Sports and Automotive categories alongside Major League Baseball, The New York Times, AOL and General Motors. The Vanderbilt Cup Races were America’s first international road races, held on Long Island from 1904 to 1910. The races, organized by William K. Vanderbilt Jr., were the greatest sporting events of their day, drawing crowds of over 250,000 spectators. The website serves as an online museum covering these historical races, as well as a home for current news and events surrounding car racing. Thank you to our client, Howard Kroplick, who founded the website and writes and manages the incredible content and photo archive. The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. Established in 1996 during the Web’s infancy, The Webbys is presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, which includes an Executive 1,000-member body of leading Web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities, and Associate Members who are former Webby Award Winners and Nominees and other Internet professionals. 2012-04-11T21:14:24+00:00 http://ericmillerdesign.com/blog/post/queens_west_villager_website_launches http://ericmillerdesign.com/index.php/site/queens_west_villager_website_launches/#When:18:27:16Z We launched a new online, local newspaper for Long Island City, NY called the Queens West Villager. The website covers local news, issues and events focused on community, the arts, leisure and food. We built the site in ExpressionEngine, giving our client full access to add and update content. 2011-10-11T18:27:16+00:00 http://ericmillerdesign.com/blog/post/interview_with_show-ee_about_our_work_on_bmi.com http://ericmillerdesign.com/index.php/site/interview_with_show-ee_about_our_work_on_bmi.com/#When:21:12:31Z Show-ee features websites that are built with ExpressionEngine (EE), our content management system of choice. The website focuses on the creative and varied ways EE can be incorporated into a project. Show-ee recently interviewed us about our work with BMI. The “Spotlight” article talks about our vision for the new look of BMI.com, what EE add-ons we used, what challenges we encountered and how we used EE to deliver what the client wanted. Read the interview, check out our work on BMI.com and more sites we’ve built with EE. 2011-09-15T21:12:31+00:00 http://ericmillerdesign.com/blog/post/design_freebie_newspaper_icon_set http://ericmillerdesign.com/index.php/site/design_freebie_newspaper_icon_set/#When:00:27:17Z After a little experimenting in icon design, I thought I'd give away this set of 3 newspaper icons. They display well on dark and light backgrounds, and the layout changes to work at different sizes. Drop your own images in the large version, or use the smaller ones with built-in cityscapes. Download a zip file of all three PNG's here. Feel free to use in any type of project, and if you do, I would love to hear about it in the comments. You can follow me on Twitter and Dribbble for more design updates. Design 2011-08-16T00:27:17+00:00 http://ericmillerdesign.com/blog/post/eric_miller_design_selected_as_official_honoree_in_2011_webby_awards http://ericmillerdesign.com/index.php/site/eric_miller_design_selected_as_official_honoree_in_2011_webby_awards/#When:16:14:17Z Eric Miller Design has been named an Official Honoree in the 15th Annual Webby Awards for our work on the real estate site SnapDigs. Of the nearly 10,000 entries submitted to the 15th Annual Webby Awards, fewer than 15% were distinguished as an Official Honoree. We are excited to see SnapDigs, a startup we launched for a client in 2010, associated with an award that the New York Times calls “the Internet’s highest honor.” SnapDigs was created to provide owners, agents and apartment seekers a user-friendly website for listing and finding places to rent in New York City. The site features a powerful search function for those looking for a home and a feature-rich control panel for agents and brokers to manage listings, photos and floor plans. A thanks goes out to Solspace, who partnered with us on the development of the site. You can read more about the system behind SnapDigs on Show-EE, the official showcase of ExpressionEngine websites. News, Our Projects, ExpressionEngine, In the Press 2011-04-12T16:14:17+00:00 http://ericmillerdesign.com/blog/post/designing_the_enginehosting_control_panel http://ericmillerdesign.com/index.php/site/designing_the_enginehosting_control_panel/#When:18:00:55Z EngineHosting is the official web hosting partner of EllisLab, makers of our favorite content management system, ExpressionEngine. They are the web host of choice for many developers in the ExpressionEngine community. As we have been an EngineHosting customer for some time, using them to host many of our client’s websites, it is exciting to be taking on user interface and user experience design for their new control panel, still in development. A big thanks goes out to Solspace and EngineHosting, who we are working closely with to complete the look and feel of the control panel. Solspace is handling planning, development and implementation of the control panel, and they brought us in on the project. Our design work is divided in three parts: The sign up process, the hosting control panel, and a new back-end for EngineHosting staff. We have been posting some of the work on dribbble with the tag enginehosting, so you can continue to follow us there if you want to see updates. We’ve also included some designs below but please keep in mind that these, and the functionality they show, are a work-in-progress. EngineHosting Sign Up The new sign up is an easy step-by-step process that allows the user to choose services, add account information and review their selections before finishing. Above: Three of the steps of the new EngineHosting sign up process. The Hosting Control Panel The new hosting control panel home has a full account snapshot, with easy access to account details, tools and technical support. Above: The new control panel home and pages to manage your plan, invoices and receipts. The EngineHosting Back-End We are also designing the interface for EngineHosting staff to manage their business, also being developed by Solspace. This interface includes reporting, invoicing, sending notifications and other functions, all designed to improve their workflow for communication with customers and account management. Follow us on Twitter for ongoing updates on the project. News, Our Projects, ExpressionEngine, Design 2011-03-28T18:00:55+00:00 http://ericmillerdesign.com/blog/post/eric_miller_design_partners_with_solspace_for_add_on_design http://ericmillerdesign.com/index.php/site/eric_miller_design_partners_with_solspace_for_add_on_design/#When:16:06:35Z We are very excited to announce a partnership with Solspace, one of the oldest and most trusted ExpressionEngine development companies. Starting with a new ExpressionEngine add-on currently in development, Eric Miller Design will be working on user experience and interface design for Solspace software. ExpressionEngine is our content management system of choice because of its flexible nature, ease-of-use for the client, and great community behind it. We use it to build full-featured websites that are maintained by our clients. Since we already use Solspace add-ons for all of our projects, we are looking forward to playing a part in how that software looks, and how developers and their clients interact with it. Our relationship with Solspace began during my nine years as the full-time web designer for BMI, during which I worked closely with Solspace President & CEO Mitchell Kimbrough on custom development for bmi.com. You can read more about that work in the Devot:ee interview. Talk about collaboration continued over drinks at SXSW 2007, and then over many instant messages, which led to projects that have already resulted in add-ons for ExpressionEngine. Solspace’s creation of a system to import thousands of songs into the Songwriters Hall of Fame website for us eventually turned into their Importer Module. Our partnership on the real estate startup directory SnapDigs needed an extremely advanced search, and Solspace’s solution led to their Super Search module. Most recently, we’ve teamed up with them to design the interface for the EngineHosting control panel, still in development. Follow us on Twitter, Dribbble and Facebook for design sneak peaks and updates during the add-on development. News, Our Projects, ExpressionEngine, Design 2011-03-16T16:06:35+00:00 http://ericmillerdesign.com/blog/post/dr._paul_m._brisson_website_launches http://ericmillerdesign.com/index.php/site/dr._paul_m._brisson_website_launches/#When:20:27:41Z We launched a new website for Dr. Paul M. Brisson, an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in spinal surgery and spinal disorders. The website covers FAQs, treatment options and a surgery guide. We built the site in ExpressionEngine, giving the client full access to add and update content. View more images in the portfolio. News, Our Projects, ExpressionEngine, Design 2011-02-21T20:27:41+00:00 http://ericmillerdesign.com/blog/post/our_2010_happy_holidays_card http://ericmillerdesign.com/index.php/site/our_2010_happy_holidays_card/#When:13:12:54Z We wanted to wish our clients, friends and family (and while we’re at it, anyone reading our blog) a happy holidays and new year. For this year’s holiday card, we’ve handcrafted this holiday interface, sent by email. You can sign up for our mailing list if you didn’t get it. Click for full size   Design 2010-12-20T13:12:54+00:00 http://ericmillerdesign.com/blog/post/our_work_on_bmi_mobile_website_featured_in_dot_net_magazine http://ericmillerdesign.com/index.php/site/our_work_on_bmi_mobile_website_featured_in_dot_net_magazine/#When:05:12:53Z Our design work on BMI’s new mobile website is featured in the October issue of .net magazine, along with a quote from my recent interview with their mobile expert Nick Francis. The site is showcased in their mobile gallery, along with YouTube and ProductiveDreams. .net is a UK-based magazine for web designers and developers, available as Practical Web Design in the U.S. Read the article (pdf) News, Our Projects, ExpressionEngine, In the Press, Design 2010-09-30T05:12:53+00:00