UK-based multimedia site requires programmer with design skills

Hi all

I am the current part-time freelance developer for a multimedia website containing essays, speeches, picture galleries, audio clips and links to video. The site has a background traffic of c. 8k page views per day, rising up to c. 200k/day after TV or high-profile internet exposure. It is edited by a non-technical user so the TinyMCE plugin is used to provide a reasonably WYSIWYG preview of content, and I have added an AJAX widget to aid ordering the substantial number of menu items.

I am intending to bow out of this responsibility due to time limitations, so my London-based employer has asked me to help find a replacement.

The site is running Drupal 4.7.5 and has been patched reasonably up to date, although a fresh install of the latest 4.7 branch IMHO would be a good idea - we've been hit by a front-page defacing cracker once already. A switch to Drupal 5 would be fine but the last time I looked into it, the TinyMCE module was not as feature-rich as its 4.7.x counterpart. A template redesign will be required, but it will not require particularly advanced graphics skills - it's a fairly square and simple 2-column CSS layout. Good x-browser CSS and a standards-based approach to design is, in my view, important. Naturally a good level of familiarity with SSH/Bash/Linux/security is a pre-requisite.

You'd be UK-based and mostly available on the telephone during office or evening hours. The initial project would be less than a week's full-time work (for an experienced Drupal user) but the intention would be to retain the successful candidate for ad-hoc assistance, development and dealing with hosting emergencies. Pro-active site monitoring would be a bonus. I imagine this would best suit a design-and-build agency that can offer a reasonable level of telephone availability, but a freelance programmer with reasonable levels of Drupal/PHP experience may fit the bill.

Can interested parties drop me a brief private message with contact details and optionally links to past work, and I will forward them to my employer's assistant for consideration. Feel free to post questions on this thread, but if you do so please also PM me, so I can be notified that a post is waiting.

Best regards,

Halfer