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Need to have my site recreated in a more professional wow factor fashion text crisper more porportioned etc. want o keep the same basic design concept just improved this is a time sensitive project. Very important that it gets put on a cms so that my staff can update it as needed and add photo’s etc etc

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I have a successful forum based on phpBB v2 at savvydollar.org. I want to redesign the site to add the following features:

5-6 main pages (forum, coupons.com portal, blog, etc.)

The site must be visually appealing, and use the colors that work with the main logo colors.

The forum software should be upgraded to phpBB v3 with my mods intact where compatible.

One significant part of the project will be to create a new layout which offers more ad space, but in a visually appealing way. The ad blocks should be of standard sizes and placed in the code in a way that makes them easy to find/edit. (A front end page edit/maintain the ad code, perhaps using something like Joomla, would be ideal.)

On the second tab, I would like to connect with the coupons.com portal. They provide the code for this, we just need to frame the page with our look and feel, and then their javascript will populate the page.

The third page will be a blog — ideally running on WordPress. It should have the same layout as the other pages, but with the blog content in the main window.

The 4th page will be “In the News” which will be a nicely laid out page with links to newspaper articles and youtube videos.

We should also have the ability to add a few more tabs using the same general page layout should the need arise.

Since this is primarily a forum website, and revenue comes from advertising clicks, the forum and ads should have a very eye appealing layout.

Please ask if I have left anything out that you would like to know.

Landing Page Design:

This project has been reposted as we removed one of the main requirements from the initial project. Below is the revised version.

We need someone to design a landing page for us based on the example attached – see (landingpageexample.html). The example is just that, an example. We want someone to redesign this to look professional and be appealing to visitors.

This page must be designed so that we can incorproate ways of generating advertising revenue. By this we mean by designing the page in a ways so that both Google Adwords could be incorportated as well as different forms of banner advertising.

We intend using OpenX banner management software to look after the placement of advertising so it would be preferable if you where familiar with the way that software works. We already have this installed ready to use.

Essentially, we need someone to come up with an appealing and compact landing page design (that basically fits into one screen – as per our example) incorporating the elements as shown in our example while at the same time allowing for the potential inclusion of Google Adwords and/or also Banner Advertising (administered using OpenX). It would be preferable if you came up with 3 different page layouts i.e

1. One with just provisions for including just Google Adwords into the page.
2. One with just provisions for including just various Banner Advertising into the page.
3. One with the provision to include both Google Adwords and Banner Advertising into the page.

We have no colour preferences etc. As along as you look at what our example landing page contains and make sure you incorporate the different content in a way that visitors will still find it easy to interact with. The content you see on the sample page is about as much as this page will ever need to carry. It’s just a matter or rearranging this to look appealing but to also permit the inclusion of some different forms of advertising. I should mention that some of the variables used on this landing page are generated by a special script that we use to interface with the landing page. For example the password numbers and the other variable numbers as shown in the Summary Area of that page are all generated by the standalone script. We simply use a variable placeholder to pick up the values when the landing page is generated.

In summary we need a landing page that is flexible enough to be able to incorporate either Google Ads or Banner Advertising or be able to accommodate both. i.e the page needs to be designed with specific zones designated for either banner advertising, Google Ads or a combination of both. Therefore, you will probably need to create 3 different landing pages (as outlined above) containing appropriate zones based on what advertising option we wish to operate for a particular time period. For example, landing page one might have zones designed to accommodate just Google Adwords. Landing page two might have zones to accommodate a range of different banner advertisements, and finally landing page three might have zones set up to allow both the inclusion of some Google Ads and some forms of Banner Advertisements. As already mentioned, we will be using OpenX to serve and manage the advertising whether they are Google Ads or banner Ads. You probably need to be familiar with how OpenX uses zones to serve it’s advertising content.

If you need clarification on any of this, please ask,

Landing Page Design:

We need someone to design a landing page for us based on the example we are already using – see attachment (landingpageexample.html). The example is just that, an example. We want someone to redesign this to look professional and be appealing to visitors.

This same person must also be able to provide a way for us to incorproate ways of generating advertising revenue. By this we mean by designing the page in a ways so that both Google Adwords could be incorportated as well as some forms of banner advertising.

While the Google Adwords would be served up by Google in the normal way, we would take responsibility for incorporating and managing any banner advertising. That means, you would also be responsible for showing us some software that would be used to manage any banner advertising that was to be placed onto the landing page you have designed. Obviously, we would purchase any banner advertising management software out of our own funds, but base the purchase on your recommendation.

In summary, we need someone to come up with an appealing and compact landing page design (that basically fits into one screen – as per our example) incorporating the elements as shown in our example while at the same time allowing for the potential inclusion of Google Adwords and also Banner Advertising. It would be preferable if you came up with 3 different page layouts i.e

1. One with just provisions for including just Google Adwords into the page.
2. One with just provisions for including just various Banner Advertising into the page.
3. One with the provision to include both Google Adwords and Banner Advertising into the page.

We have no colour preferences etc. As along as you look at what our existing landing page contains and make sure you incorporate the different content in a way that visitors will still find it easy to interact with. The content you see on the sample page is about as much as this page will ever need to carry. It’s just a matter or rearranging this to look appealing but to also permit the inclusion of some different forms of advertising. I should mention that some of the variables used on this landing page are generated by a special script that we use to interface with the landing page. For example the password numbers and the other variable numbers as shown in the Summary Area of that page are all generated by this standalone script.

If you need any clarification on this, please ask,