E- Commerce Website
We are subcontracting an E-commerce website to satisfy an URGENT request for a very important client. Advertising is already in place, therefore time is of the utmost importance. However, the quality of the work, and the look of the site is even more important.
The facts of the case:
-It is for a Sporting Goods & Clothing website
-Initially, there will be approx. 50-100 products in the database (this will include multiple styles and colors of the same product)
-The look of the site is “upscale”, but the user interface has to be logical and easy to use.
-We are open to the particular E-commerce implementation, but it should be easy to maintain and scaleable for future growth, and you should have expertise with it
-Product presentation is very important. Potential customers should be able to view product inventory easily by type, color, style, etc
-We have general logo & artwork, but are open to suggestions of colors and overall look & feel of website. Please no out-of-the box ecommerce templated sites. It must be elegant to see and use.
-Web standards are very important: XHTML, CSS, normal compliance is expected, as well as fundamental SEO
-Data for the initial set of store products will have to be pulled from a company PDF file (unlocked). This will include about 40 or so photos and text. Please price this into your project.
-Include in your bid pre-release testing, loading of site onto client’s final server, and 2 months of basic maintenance/ minor consulting (which will be payed as a separate bonus upon completion)
If you bid, please:
-Describe your area of expertise, and a summary of your plan of attack.
-Also state your preferred medium of communication and your general time-availability in local time or in UTC, if not based in the U.S.
-State definitively, your minimum time frame for completion. It is an URGENT project, but do not say 10 days to please us when it will take you 30 days in reality. An honest assessment based on your skill and communication ability is of the UTMOST IMPORTANCE!
-DO NOT low-ball the price or over-promise. We are in this line of work ourselves; Quality- and your ability to deliver exactly what you say is the #1 priority of this project.
-Finally, we request samples of previous work of online-stores or ecommerce projects. We need to know you have experience with this. We are not against giving first-timers with very little portfolio a shot– BUT NOT ON THIS PROJECT. This one must be handled with a sure hand.
If we can deliver in this short time frame, it will surely lead to more work for you, whenever our busy shop cannot handle our workload.
Thank you for bidding.
