My client needs to have a custom WordPress blog template created from an existing template. The existing template is the Partnerprogramm template here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/partnerprogramm
You can see the template above being used here on one of my client’s blogs: http://northshorelinks.com/events/
The Events blog above is part of this website: http://northshorelinks.com/
We need to have the Partnerprogramm template customized so that there are ad placement areas on the top and on the left and right columns – the SAME ADS that are shown in the same areas of http://northshorelinks.com/ (so we can have the same ads running at all times on all pages of the site, including the blogs).
So, above the existing banner at the top of the Partnerprogramm template, we need space for two banners – the same sizes as the ones at the top of NorthshoreLinks.com: an 800 x 80 pixel banner at the very top, then a space of 5 pixels, and then an 800 x 65 pixel banner. Just below (5-7 pixels below) that second banner would be the existing banner in the blog template (middle.gif, which is 900 x 150 pixels).
Then, in the left column, starting at the top (level with the first blog post), we need a column of ads. All the ads in the left column would be the same size as the ads in the left column of NorthshoreLinks.com (154 x 117 pixels). We need to be able to easily post as many ads as needed in this area (up to 15), but we DON’T want anything like an ad placeholder showing up if we have fewer than 15 ads posted.
The right column of ads would start at the top of the right column, level with the first blog post. (Everything currently in the right column would start below the ads.) All the right-column ads would be sized 194 x 131 pixels. We also need to be able to easily post as many ads as needed in this area (up to 15), but we DON’T want anything like an ad placeholder showing up if we have fewer than 15 ads posted.
All ads in the left and right columns would need a space of 12 pixels between them. We also need good-looking spacing everywhere in this template. We may need to request multiple adjustments in spacing before this project is accepted – to make sure the template looks good.
EXTRA FEATURE #1:
Since we have 10 blogs that are part of NorthshoreLinks.com (and all the ads on all the blogs will be the same), and we’d rather not have to change all the ads separately on every blog, if there is a way to create a folder/page that can be imported into all the blogs (like an ‘includes’ page, with all the ad images in a folder, that would automatically update the ads on the all the blogs), that would be very helpful.
EXTRA FEATURE #2
It would also be nice if we could add the main menu of NorthshoreLinks.com to the left column of the blog template, below the ads in the left column (where this would also be something like an ‘includes’ page that we could easily update by pasting it into all the blog folders whenever there is a change to the main menu of the site).
We’d need to have this done by a designer whose work looks polished and well-done (by American standards), without having to go back and forth after the design is submitted – to make the thing look ‘finished’. We want it to look very professional and will not accept a design that looks crappy. We’ve seen work done by great coders that is fully functional, but which does NOT look polished or stylish when complete. So design is just as important as functionality here.
We need this template to look great (with no botches), and we need it to be fully functional and EASY to update.
If you can do all this for under $200, please post your bid here, and state whether your bid includes EXTRA FEATURE #1 and/or EXTRA FEATURE #2.
Thanks,
Mark
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