I’m willing to pay $130-$200 for this work. It must be done in 18 days or less. My client has an oscmax template he bought and a look he wants (and has had made for the homepage), but this is not the final design. The design will need to be changed to whatever he wants. The oscmax templates was just bought to save time for you all in programming.
There is some flash work that will be needed to be done.
Scope of work: e-commerce site which has been designed with a custom
shopping cart and is mostly completed, needs to be finalized in order to be 100%
operational.
Work includes: minimal additional coding, corrections to some existing
coding, minor cosmetic design changes, and some adjustments to
functionality, increasing loading speed, assuring 100% security, adding
gateways to shopping cart (QuickBooks compatibility required), and
adjustments to allow for mobile accessibility to site.
Here are some more issues regarding Flash. Search engines don’t like Flash either. Their spiders can’t read anything contained in the animation. When they come to index the website they are looking for text, not graphics. If the first thing they run into is a Flash intro screen then the spiders will almost always immediately leave the site and go elsewhere looking for what they do like. If we will go with Flash we are going to need your help so the spiders could see round it.
Some important items which we want to be certain our site has. “White-Space” in general, white-space is the cornerstone of good website design. Keeping the background areas where our information or products will be displayed white or another light / pale color. Dark or oddly colored backgrounds distract visitors from the information and also can make it difficult to read. Background images are also sometimes a big don’t for the same reasons plus they can make pages load more slowly. Colored text can be used, but only sparingly. Contrast is key; otherwise it can be become very difficult to read. Try to use colored text only to emphasize important information.
We also want the name of our website, domain name, or business name to be prominently featured somewhere at or near the top of our pages either within our logo or near it. And it should fit within the typical boundaries of the page. If you will make it too big or it contains too many words then it will stretch our pages so wide that most visitors won’t be able to see the whole page unless they scroll sideways. Very annoying; and definitely not good website design.
We also want you to automatically include a second set of navigational links at the bottom of all our pages. Regardless of where you choose to put them try to keep the text on the buttons or in the links as short as possible. Anything longer than one or two words may cause that part of our layout to be too wide and crowd our content area.
We would also like to make sure that you use a percentage option when setting our site page width setting. The percentage options allow the site to automatically expand or contract to fill the computer screen up to a specific percentage of the screen width. (see yahoo.com)
Using percentages as the site width setting will make it easier for our site to look its best on as many different computers as possible. However, there is still the potential for problems. You should still check our site in various screen resolutions after each time you add new pages or content to make sure nothing is overriding the percentage option you set. For example, if we put a very large image on a page that prevents the page from contracting for smaller resolutions then visitor’s browser won’t be able to accommodate the percentage setting the site is telling it to use. Images and other graphics cannot automatically resize themselves on the fly based on the visitor’s computer resolution. Site page boundaries can expand and contract based on the percentage width setting, but only if the images and other graphical content give it enough room do to so.
And below our important points regarding the e-commerce part of our site which we want to share with you before you begin working on the product.
Providing enough information about the product; including prices and shipping costs, before the checkout process i.e. disclosing the price at the start as price, is a major issue when considering a purchase. E-commerce shoppers are possibly using our site to save time. So they will appreciate having the price disclosed sooner than later. This helps them finalize the purchase quickly.
We do not want to not ask customers to fill forms at checkout, asking customers to fill registration forms when they are placing their order is bad strategy. The process of filling the form can disengage customers from completing the transaction and you lose a sale. We need to use a creative way to do this see our three checkout options. Maybe you can improve on this or come up with a better idea. (Our One Page Checkout Idea)
Another important objective is making the website interactive. Giving shoppers the option; to participate in online quizzes and polls. Asking for feedback on products we think is another good way of involving customers as well as improving our services. To be able to insure a good customer experience we should evaluate the experience of real live customers shopping on our Web site, capturing the customers’ behavior and feedback along the way. Armed with these customer insights, we can put our efforts into improving what matters most.
We feel aesthetics must balance utility, colorful visuals, multimedia and flashy fonts will make our website look attractive. But the look needs to be elegant and not cluttered. We would like for you to give us your design input to balance aesthetics and user-friendly features.
An additional feature which we consider of utmost importance is fast loading pages, effective search features, and an intuitive site hierarchy; enable shoppers to complete their purchases efficiently and happily. The website should load quickly. A website that takes ages to load not only loses customers, but also reflects badly on the quality of its products and services. Customers should be able to access the item they want quickly, or they will probably look for another site/vendor.
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Brief Overview Of Requirements
Designed Website to generally replicate woot.com zazz.co.au. catchoftheday.com.au. as to content only
The store will sell one item weekly and one or more additional items of less importance but also limited quantities and thus we will need the ability to pre-program set pictures, description, and price of each item on a regular basis so that the item will change at the exact time desired. We would also need to have a preview of this to see how it will look on the site live. We also need to clearly link this to a web merchant, and will thus need a shopping cart style design that accepts credit cards as well as pay pal. Stats will be required, including when product is gone, (see woot for reference) it will display certain stats, and also prompt the user to purchase one of the additional items, which can also be purchased before product is gone.
Designer should be familiar with online store design. Standard E Commerce Solution highlighting a DEAL of the Day type of product with limited quantity and time frame.
Website will be a complete eCommerce System which will target to Selling virtual and physical products.
CSS based design and strong Web Standard Support such as use of strict XHTML 1.1, Web 2.0, etc.
Website need to be accessible from popular Platforms like IE (6.0, 7.0), Firefox (1.1, 1.2, and 2.0) and Safari (latest version).
Payment processor Integration
Pay pal (Express checkout, simple checkout) or pay online through the website with any gateway
Admin will manage Mailing and Notifications.
Gift Certificates and Discount Coupons integration (Still Questionable)
Customer profile with billing and shipping address.
Product Catalog with image gallery.
Quick and Advanced Search.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Users should be able to register themselves on the website,
User forums and blogs,
Check shipping status.
Cart Section
Checkout
Admin can add/edit/delete product, add product to deal, update price, quantity etc
Admin will be able to maintain (add/edit/delete and then submit) members and their profile details.
Admin will manage email / notification templates
Admin will manage Orders, shipment and Payment Processors.
Need reporting on orders, shipping, invoice, members, vendors, product statistics, and member’s activity statistics.
Admin will manage newsletter for email marketing.
Further to our understanding, we would request you to kindly provide us more information on admin/user roles and capabilities required to be developed, details on functionality required to be developed for shopping cart, forum and blogs, information on type of integration required for shipping feed
Testing & Deployment
Test Planning
Functional & System Testing / Fixing
UAT Fixing
Final Deployment
We need to develop a new website (not one that’s adopted from a standard template used for various sites and purposes,) with very professional & aesthetic design.
We need experience in PHP/MySQL, ASP, .NET, JSP, Perl , AJAX etc.
We also need experience in developing e-commerce websites, intranet and experts in CMS like payment integration (Authorise.net, Varisign, Paypal, Ikobo, 2CO, Protx etc.), XML data feeding etc.
The site needs to be secure & work fast, speed in loading and utilization is essential
It also needs to be protecting our data from visitors; where visitors can only see the products in GUI.
All transaction need be done at Business and Service layers which will be hidden from the visitors.
The site should be using secure PHP framework (not everything on same script).
It has to be W3C compliant HTML, CSS or similar and JavaScript for coding and highly optimized pictures, graphics and Flash animation for frontend.
All codes should be validated. We prefer hard code for all pages so we should get a fast loading page, error free and cross browser optimized (website working on all browsers). Also we will need support for any bugs for next six months.
We are also preferably looking for an ISO 9001:2000 certified Web Designing, Development & Internet Marketing Company.
Detailed Specifications
Front Page Requirements
Tabs/Buttons or any other creative thought or design on front page
Home/Sundays Catch
Blog
Forums
My Account
Write Us
What’s The Catch
Front page should include (boxes, buttons, or some other creative idea (you can use your vast imagination)
Sign In.
Catch Countdown
Side Catch
Upcoming Catch
Past Catch
News
Advertisement
Payment Acceptance System: Site should convey security & hacker safe.
Description Of Item: A picture of the item being sold, also 3 small different views of the picture. (Not an object placed on a white box in center of page (something more creative) also sees catchoftheday.com.au Zazz.com.au ,for concept.
Name Of Product
Condition
Price
Shipping
Catch Me:! (equivalent to buy it)
Page should also include:
Rate This Product
Discuss This Product
Also check out catchoftheday.com.au as to their approach for when an item is almost sold out; the button becomes like bitten up and beneath you see the Skeletal bones of the fish. We need a similar concept but of course more original not copied and slightly changed; that when the inventory of the product gets reduced the button (or whatever we will be using, possibly some kind of fish)
