Catchy dynamic website for campaign

• Project ID:

  632514

• Project Type:

  Fixed

• Budget:

  $750-$1500 USD
  

Project Description:

Please read the attached PowerPoint document carefully before placing a bid on this project.

I need an experienced designer, and programmer or both to design, program and deploy this website. The site is needed for a political campaign candidate, who will utilise the site as the focal point of the political campaign.

The site needs to look like and have the functionality exactly the same as the following site: www.jerrybrown.org. This will cover about 80% of the requirement. All features in the www.jerrybrown.org site are needed in my requested site. The list of pages is obviously different and is specified in the attached document. Some of the pages will be in drop down menus, and this navigation menu needs to be glossy and visually appealing. We are looking for the highest standards of design and programming.

From a design perspective, the site needs to be engaging and catchy, with colours blended nicely to bring the site to life. Further details on the requirement are in the attached PowerPoint document.

Some of the features not in the www.jerrybrown.org, but also needed are:

• The home page will have a slideshow animation of images, to be quite prominent on the home page, so that it is clear for all users to see and quite visually appealing. This will be positioned in the same location as the main “Jerry Announce” box as shown in the site: www.jerrybrown.org. All images will be supplied. The key thing to note on the images is that we will need the winning bidder to convert these to black and white to ensure that image slide show on the home page is in black and white.
• One of the pages is for an image gallery as you will see in the attached Powerpoint document. The gallery has to be implemented EXACTLY as shown on the following link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/03/07/arts/design/20100307-lowbrow-feature.html?scp=1&sq=gallery&st=cse its is important that the gallery has a scrolling effect, which will probably be implemented via flash and allows users to navigate as in the above link. All images will be supplied.

• There is also a requirement to as you will see from www.jerrybrown.org for custom designed graphics. Again the winning bidder will need to create these.

My prefeerence is to use php/ mysql for the dynamic features

The site is needed quite urgently, so the plan for deployment is as follows:

Phase 1: Saturday 20th March:

Design of the site is complete and deployed on a test server for my review. The image slide show on the home page will be complete, as well as gallery page. All design features: look and feel, and all page elements will be in place. All text boxes and forms should also be ready on the site, but if time does not permit, the forms don’t have to be functional yet as that comes with phase 2 of the implementation which has a separate due date. Basically the entire shape, look and feel of the site needs to be in place and ready by this date. All text and images to be in place, as well as all pages and links, and all other static items.

Phase 2: Saturday 27th March:

All data driven components or dynamic elements of the site will be complete and functional, including all forms, ability to leave comments, newsletter subscription, volunteer subscription, face book integration. The ability to process donations via PayPal and interswitch will be ready and functional.

Phase 3: Saturday 3rd April:

The admin panel will be done. The admin panel will be via CMS, where the site can be managed and administered. Basically this is the due date where the entire site with ALL features, implementation and administration is all complete and project closed.

Payment Schedule

After phase 1 is complete, we will make the first milestone payment with a third (33%) of the fees for the site paid. After phase 2 is complete, a second third (33%) will be paid, and once the final site is complete and implemented on my hosting server, the final third (33%) will be paid, bringing the project to an end. No Escrow transfer or milestone payment will be made before phase 1 of the site is complete, reviewed and signed off. It is very important that non of the deadlines are missed. This is very critical because a missed deadline will be considered a breach of contract and we reserve the right to cancel the project if this happened. Again it is very important that no deadlines are missed.

Communication

We are under no illusions that timescales are very tight, and we are looking for a provider who can deliver quality results under tight deadlines, and considerable pressure. Given the need to manage this project very closely, we require a daily update email during phase 1. We see phase 1 as the most critical part of the project hence the need for the daily status updates to ensure the project is on track. The daily email or status update will summarise what progress has been made on the site on a particular day. These daily status reports are very important, and should not be omitted, as that will also be deemed as a breach of contract. During phase 2 and phase 3, the update emails will be relaxed slightly and will be needed every other day, meaning only every 2 days unlike phase 1 which requires this every day.

This is clearly a very engaging and challenging project environment, so we request any potential provider to be prepared to deliver in a challenging project, especially due to timescales.

Admin Panel

The admin panel is required to manage all aspects of the site. For example, it will be needed to change and manage page content, update images, update the gallery, moderate comments left on the site, email newsletter and volunteer subscribers and other site features.

Please provide me with links to your work in your bids. Would help if you have strong design and programming skills, know how to integrate PayPal donations, have experience in CMS, and newsletter subscription management, forum commentary, and all other skills required for this project.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Good Luck

Skills required:

CMS, Flash, Graphic Design, Paypal API, Website Design

Additional Files:

JumokeA_Site+brief.ppt campaignsite.ppt