Proposals requested | Simple drupal 5.x site (G2TT)

Hello drupalers

I would like a simple web site to be developed and would welcome fixed price proposals, for the following work, to be received at patrick.cormier (at) g2tt.com no later than 27 October 2007, 18:00 hrs EST. I have taken the time to read on drupal.org pricing related posts, so I have an idea of what constitutes reasonable developing/customization costs for a web site.

In general, the work effort involves taking an existing drupal theme and tweaking it to suit a few customary requirements. There are also a few other requirements that are not theme-related.

So - the job is to design a drupal 5.x theme with the following characteristics:

- White background theme. As a starting theme, I have a strong preference for the Roople NewsFlash theme (select NewsFlash from the drop-down list at the top of the page).
- Modify theme to reflect custom logo, color scheme and favicon (I would provide the company logo).
- Modify theme to reflect distinct font and line spacing. My favorite so far is theme "Golden Gray" (all following themes refer to alexking sample WordPress themes - select theme name from drop-down selection box at top right of the screen) because it is easily readable. I am receptive to suggestions of course.
- For blog articles only: a "date box" at the top left of each article (as in theme "Travelogue"), and next to this date box -> post title / post author / categories and comment count, same as in theme "Connections"; + trackback count. Ability for blog readers to trackback to blog articles.
- For other types of content (e.g. pages, stories) -> just title and article is fine.
- Visually appealing way to separate blocks in sidebars (the NewsFlash theme layout does not contain multiple blocks in any sidebar so I do not know how NewsFlash visually separates blocks in the same sidebars). Example that I like: highlighting the block title (see theme "Rin"), horizontal lines and clear titles (see theme "Green Marinee"). I am receptive to suggestions.

In addition to the foregoing theme-related mods, I would like the following:

- For unauthenticated users only: require a CAPTCHA or login into a popular common authenticating system (found on popular blogs) before they can publish comments.
- Ability to turn on/off breadcrumbs (site admin).
- Ability to turn on/off the search box (site admin).
- An anti-spam strategy / system / module.
- Updating the drupal installation with all published 5.x security patches.

Finally, I would like:

- You teaching me how to backup my site (how do do backups of the whole site in a way that I can restore the site on any hosting service).
- You teaching me how to apply security fixes and patches.

If anything above translates into significant additional work, I would like it priced separately so I can decide if I really want it done or not.

I would like the fixed price proposal to be in US or Cdn dollars (they're at par anyway these days) and the two "teaching" points to be priced separately.

If you have any questions about this statement of work, you're welcome to post them as comments under this post or to send me an email at the above address.

Looking forward to hear from you,

Best regards,

Patrick Cormier