Building a Website

Project Description: This is a genuine request to build a website and all applications will be considered in earnest. Please state in your application other websites you have built or relevant work experience and the timescale in which you can complete the project. Description: A bold, modern and well designed website with a simple and easy-to-use content management system, used for advertising unique and niche products available for sale on 3rd party websites. The aim is to provide inspiration, build a regular user base, and bring a stronger web presence to the featured products, sending high numbers of qualified customers to affiliate sites, earning a commission in the process. The site will be highly dynamic, with new products, images, info and articles being added on a daily basis. As such the process of managing the content needs to be quick and efficient. Social media links and related pages will be integrated with links at the top right of the home page (facebook, twitter, pinterest, tumblr etc). There will be a link for users to subscribe to a newsletter with their email address, and a dedicated blog page, and press inquiries page. The website will provide a "like" or "heart" function for each product, allowing us to track and rate the most popular products. The design will be clean and simple, but modern and striking, with the focus firmly on the products on offer, and the dynamic nature of the site. The frontpage will include the logo and strapline, a menu derived from cms defined categories, a featured product slider, and a product pane which clicks through to the specific product page. The product pages will display product details from the cms, and a grid of thumbnail images that can be clicked on for a full size javascript popup view, with next and previous buttons. As advertising is the main purpose of the site, SEO principals must be used throughout, as much of the traffic will originate from search engines. The use of sitemaps, metadata, keywords, friendly urls and google analytics must be built in. Design: - Front Page - logo/layout/background/fonts etc - menu - categories (which changes product pane contents accordingly) - social media links - blog page - slider images (as defined in cms) - main products pane (as defined in cms) - Product page - url of product derived from keywords in cms - product image thumbnails with javascript popup for full size view - product title & description - buy it now button which clicks through to affiliate link - hearts/favourite counter per product - right hand pane showing similar products (how to define similar?) - Press Enquiries Page - Blog Page - Contact Us Page - contact form submision - validate input / include captcha - Admin Interface (password protected) - products admin - add/remove/edit product (unique id for each product) - description - keywords - categories (multi-selectable) - images - add/remove - can add from file on disk or url - creates and scales thumbnail and fulsize in backend - enabled or disabled (enabled by default) - select single lead image per product - enable/disable the image appearing in the homepage slider - affiliate product link - affiliate email address (optional) - blog page admin - categories admin - add/remove category - Backend/Internal Functions - each saved change in the cms creates a new content revision version which can be exported to static html - old revision versions can be re-exported - scheduled check that affiliate links are working - email affiliate to inform of click-through if email available - certain data can be queried for reporting purposes - when was a buy link clicked - favourite count - how many visits to product page Skills required: Graphic Design, HTML, MySQL, PHP, Website Design