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Request for theme design work

brianestadt - September 22, 2007 - 00:11

Demands on my time and my neophyte coding status have prompted me to seek bids for what I believe should be a relatively simple task of customizing a theme for my Drupal 5.x website. Essentially, what I'll do is say "I like this from Theme A, that from Theme B, that other thing from Theme C and this doohickey from Theme D." If my life afforded me the time to learn the basics of CSS and PHP, I would try to do the splicing myself.

The website doesn't get many hits (it potential readership is under 2,000 and it's nowhere near reaching its potential), so I'm not looking to break the bank.

Here's what I'm looking for:

  • A fixed-width design with the two sidebars placed (side by side) to the right of the content column (as in the amadou, vertigo and SEOposition themes)
  • A thin vertical line separating the two sidebars.
  • Regions above and below the two sidebars. These regions should be the width of the combined sidebars (effectively becoming "doublewides") and be boxed.
  • A graphic (similar to the style of Andreas01 and SEOposition) as the website flag. I'll provide this graphic, as well as the site's custom favicon.
  • Primary links displayed horizontally below the website flag (I find the format in the Siberia theme to be attractive).
  • Search bar incorporated into the primary links (ala Siberia)
  • Unlike the Siberia theme, I do not want a "search" button next to the search field. Instead, I prefer the approach taken by the designer of the Ubiquity theme ... that is, with an unobtrusive icon such as a magnifying lens incorporated into the search field.
  • A thin horizontal line separating posts in the content column ... (like what you'll find in the blue_zinfandel theme, though perhaps replacing the centered starbust with a variation on the favicon)
  • Approval of custom bodytext, headline, sibebar styles, and theme color schemes ... (I won't be picky ... I'll point you to downloadable Drupal themes that have body text, headline styles, color schemes that I like and tell you, "I want that.")
  • A customized teaser style for the theme. I would want the site to automatically convert the usernmaes of website staff into a byline format that includes their name and title.
  • Of course, clean rendering on Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and other browsers.

A couple extras I would like but aren't necessary (i.e. I'll pay a little more for this capability, but if it requires considerable work, which in turn requires considerable compensation, we'll scratch these off the list)

  • Incorporation of weather data (only current temp) into the primary links. I would like this temperature to a clickable path to the weather forcast available from the National Weather Service. I can provide a link and php code of a working example. Unfortunately, this working example (a college newspaper site) was custom-written to access data that was created by its campus weather students. So there would be at least a little bit of customization to retireve the info from NWS.
  • Secondary links displayed as I described in my post at http://drupal.org/node/172385.
  • If you're interested, e-mail with your price and any questions. I won't give vague directives then tell you your work isn't what I had in mind. I will give very specific examples to make your life easy.

    CSS theme

    BioBen - September 22, 2007 - 00:45

    Your description appears to fall into our CSS package we offer -
    http://sundaysenergy.org/catalog/web-theming/6.1.1-css-code-drupal-theme...
    The additional module work would entail -
    http://sundaysenergy.org/catalog/drupal/2.2.2-specialty-module-configura...
    Per module.

    Send me an email and I can give you more info about our little Drupal shop.

    Ben

    ben [at] sundaysenergy [dot] com
    Recent project - e3living.com

    Best way to contact you?

    ulfk - September 22, 2007 - 02:40

    Best way to contact you? Could you either turn on your contact form, or post your email address.

    Issue closed

    brianestadt - September 23, 2007 - 23:30

    I've settled on someone for this job. Thanks for everyone's interest.

     
     

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