Seeking Drupal Expert ASAP To Improve A Popular News Site

Seeking the best of the best to help manage and work on phase 2 of a popular, but young news site.

We need to better filter the database, give better premium options, easy to join, prettier, user-friendly, quick, efficient and many other things to make the site more sticky.

This is a news, opinion and finance based site that needs to become a lot more interactive, think fool.com (stocks). I'll quickly reply back w/ web link. Please no form replies.

SKILLS: Strong experience with PHP, MySQL, Drupal, AJAX, XML, HTML, Social Networking, caching, design, SEO, theming, layout and Subscription Management. You must be extremely reliable and an expert with efficiently writing lean PHP, drupal, module development, ssh, user management, AJAX, scalability, and figuring out how to code things.

Looking to add features like a ajax sign-up, more premium subscription features, follow writers, email alerts, internal ads, improved layout, etc.

If you think this would be a good fit, where you want to add a growing site to your portfolio, and most importantly, you are up to the challenge, then please contact us. Just a fair warning, my boss is pretty demanding and exacting with what he wants built out. If site appears weaker than the fool or the street after this phase is done then that would be a disappointment.

If you are great/reliable this can potentially be a long-term contract in the monthly range of $1500 to $3000.

It'd be nice if you have similar examples or sites that show your expertise in your portfolio which will help us get an idea of what you're capable of. We are seeking a person or company to eventually manage the IT related-work of our website

So if you know Drupal inside and out, and can dive in immediately and who also understands usability and has a keen eye for compelling web design, then please inquire about the work.