OK so taking advice I have been told that 3 to 400$ is about right for this contest. First can I say please DO NOT mention the business name on this contest as I do not want it indexed or showing on the search engines. – Thanks. I hope the contest will have good coders/designers flexing their creative muscles as I'm really into the whole open-source movement and want to really push Wordpress and show what you can do with it (without it looking WP). The site will use various plugins and goodies to make it almost fully automated, it has to have e-commerce and be fully coded. The site will intially start off as an eco how to and information site, however I want to build it quickly into a substantial product sales site for which I will pay extra for. LAYOUT FOR MAIN CONTENT: The index page already done is a mix of all things going on throughout the site. I need an animation to strongly reinforce what we are all about (my niche is innovative, new, money-saving eco products, environmental news, and a business opportunity) so should show frames of eco concern, or new eco/money saving products that we recommend!! – For animation holder I want it to look different than usual WP offerings, I want a bigger, more polished - like http://magazine.wsj.com with 4 frames in the slideshow with headings HOME & GARDEN – FEATURED PRODUCTS - SHOPPING REVOLUTION + ECO BUSINESS (I particularly like the shopping one on WSJ; ours would show different eco products in the shopping slide plus a similar black Buyers Market type graphic to the right) The template has already been designed see - http://img517.imageshack.us:80/img51.../ecomatev5.jpg Needs some good green content and there are lots of WP blogs out there doing it so finding stuff on solar panels, green cars, green products should be easy. Here is one such site http://green-home-products.info - Although its just another blog and not what I want, I quite like the Recent Post/Comments right hand tab – Might like an ECO POLL too? RIGHT HAND COLUMN: under SUBSCRIBE – we’ll have some good quality “how to†eco videos that you can find all over the web. Would like multiple videos, which change as people browse the site not just one see www.spiritsbreath.com seemingly its using an available WP plugin that runs various videos. MAIN CONTENT: Under the animation, the page will break to two columns and we’ll have 4 boxes with these headers/categories: GREEN HOMES – HEALTHY YOU – GREEN SHOPPING – GREEN PLANET = one ad in each. Need content for this, see this 3-column layout in www.mygreenway.com When a user clicks on any of these (more info type boxes) they will be taken to pages showing ALL listings “under that header/category†– with this layout, see 2 column layout at the bottom half of the www.mygreenway.com page - when the reader clicks on individual items “read more..†they get the full story relating to the item. The site has to have unique content, it has to have twitter page (auto-updated with all new content) I have to be able to critique new products. I don’t want an amazon shop, I would want a proper shopping cart so I can upload my own products, it would be made to match the site colours. Will the WP e-commerce be good enough for this, there are many others online the main things are it matches the site, it is solid, secure and bug free, found this little one http://www.nigelsecostore.com/ looks like WP but I think its written in perl. Would like to have a better layout and better sales pages but all-in-all this is ok. – Should THE SHOP open in a new browser?? Here are three Wordpress sites I would like to take the best from all of them to create the site. www.greenvert.net has lots of goodies/tools/plugins on it and its obviously a green site – buts its too dark and a bit depressing. The three-column layout is good when you have a lot to go on the index pages, but needs to be better designed. www.mygreenway.com got some of the parts however is does look more blog, prefer the greenvert pages although as I said too dark and want my site to NOT to look like a wordpress blog. www.envirogadget.com a simple wordpress blog that critiques green products not much to look at but critiques innovative products as I want to do in part of my site. Need PLR content like he has?? I KNOW THIS SEEMS LIKE A LOT BUT PRACTICALLY EVERYTHING I’M ASKING FOR IS ALREADY AVAILABLE AND WOULD BE SUPPLIED IN ANY BOG-STANDARD WP THEME AND ALL THE PLUGINS ARE AVAILABLE TOO. WHAT I WANT IS FOR IT ALL TO BE PRESENTED DIFFERENTLY AND LOOK NOTHING LIKE A WP BLOG. - THIS SITE WILL CONTINUALLY BE DEVELOPED AND I HAVE OTHER PROJECTS TO START SO MORE WORK TO FOLLOW. CONTENT: EARTHCLOCK: I like the Earthclock on GreenVert.net, I've already had an inner page done see - . YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT: See carbon footprint script on greenvert.net, good tool for those finding out more although it should fit better in the page/template for both size and design *** Visit Our Store/Shop Online must figure highly onsite to “get people to the shop†throughout the site. ECOTIQUES: Need a critique pages for products like on envirogadget.com (however the pages need to be better presented and fit the overall look) – accessed via a tab on the navigation. PLUS need a graphic advertising ECOTIQUES we critique the best new products as this will be one of the USP’s somewhere on the homepage ECOTIPS: Tab on the navigation and an advert somewhere on the homepage, giving general tips on how to save energy, let registered member give tips to build into green “how to†database?. WORDPRESS: Wordpress HD video and podcast software for the green/eco videos?? NING: Would I need a NING social network or would the forum cover or the SIGN UP to some kind of newsletter/ebook/membership cover this? MARKETING: Need to market products with tax incentives/grants/subsidies for GOING GREEN! – and these should be highly visible on the site – also the companies who will install those!! Therefore there would be a PARTNERS graphic showing various linked logos, right-hand column?? ENTREPRENEURS: I have a graphic on the page for a competition I hope to run next year (funds permitting) for companies/entrepreneurs/innovators/inventors of new green products. OUR STORE: via tab on navigation ECOSHOP using WP ecommerce or StorePress sitemile.com? TWITTER: Would want Twitter page – So people follow me see visible twitter graphic on the page with mini-graphics for other networks. RSS FEEDS: A MUST HAVE with relevant up-to-date eco news. Do WP have their own, what about google feedburner which seems to be the one on most of these sites, or are their other better ones. The content has to cater for a UK/European market with what’s happening in the US and the rest of the world being secondary or newsworthy. GOOGLE ADS: Not sure or is there something better?? SEO keywords: save energy, solar power, eco gadgets, environment, stop global warming, global warming, solar panels, money saving, - and anything else you can think of? Make Solar Power, LATER ADDITIONS: AFFILIATE SCRIPT: Will need an affiliate script installed at some point (if there is nothing open-source) I will buy this later so agents who want to run the business in their local areas can manage their businesses, check their commissions/earnings etc – So at this stage would want a START YOUR OWN LOCAL XXXXXXXX BUSINESS – COMING SOON – APPLY NOW animated/flashing graphic. Let me know. Thanks, Jim.
OK people what am I doing wrong I'm totally commited to getting this site developed and this is what I've been told to offer by coders. I'm prepared to offer more for the right person and this project will be upgraded, added to, so again there will be more funds allocated. Additionally once the site starts to bring in some funds the rate for work will also go up. So if someone can let me know I'd really appreciate it??? Regards.
because most of the good designs you can get you probably wont get them coded. You'll have more designs if you do a $250 - $300 contest for design only and then find a coder to do the rest of the work.
i 3rd that. however... if i did win, with the prize you have now, i might have enough 2 pay someone to code it out of the winnings. but yea, id probably enter.
E-whoring is being a whore and work for cheap rates. It just makes harm to all of us. I don't care what it means in BH world. We will end up being forced to make websites for $10, because that will be the higher price on the market .... and even then there will be e-whores which will decrease the price to $0.10, again. Stop working for low profit, stop ewhoring. We do deserve better and honest prices.
You said in your post that the template was already designed and posted a link to an image that doesn't seem to work. Later on you mention a few design elements so it's unclear what you want. Is this just for the coding of the template and the extensions on wordpress? You mention content creation as well, and creating a carbon footprint calculator, which will require programming, plus twitter creation and integration. This is costly stuff.
No offense but this forum is quite famous for low-cost designing contests and the high probability of someone winning a contest due to the small number of entrants. That's why I could see you submitting some entries here right? Since you are not interested in low profit and you think that you deserve a better and honest price, you may wanna opt for crowdspring and 99designs and should really stay away from logo contests over here which are worth <$100. By the way, I don't see anything wrong with stardesign99's comment.
Hi All, Firstly I have to apologise as I did not know all these replies were here. I kept looking in until last week and there was nothing. So I havent been getting anything to my email to tell me anyone had posted. I Know I'm getting prompts that people have sent replies on other stuff - will come back on individual points asap!
Hi, while I had private messages and other boxes ticked, I didn't have instant email on my posts ticked!! Done now...
Thanks for this Neil and Zeba5 but I already have paid someone to do the template. I'm a bit new at this but what I really want in the first instance is a WP CMS that doesnt look like a blog, so a branded wordpress template and website that does all the things that WP does but looking different. The plugins are things that I've seen on other WP sites and for me help to beef up the content and give added value for the niche that I'm aiming at. What I thought I would get was just that, but seemingly it has to be broken down into someone woh does the design and then someone actually codes (in effect builds the site) based on an index and an inner page??
Stardesigns and joidiamonds, the image for the template was put up at that link by the designer however your right it doesnt work now. I now have all the fileds and I will have it put up screenshots of the index and inner page somewhere today and if anyone wants to give me feedback on how to go forward from there I'd appreciate it. I really want to get the first part of the site, which is the wordpress site/cms live asap. Regards, Jim.
Hi Erthy, Yes coding/building the site to have it doing all the normal things/pages that a blog would do and the wordpress extensions/plugins all of which are readily available and you can see then on the sites I've mentioned in the brief. The carbon footprint is a basic script and available and it would seem that almost every blog now has a twitter pages that auto updates with all the new content or blogs psted on the main site? I dont see where this can be costly but I am prepared to pay for more things as the site develops, remembering I want this to morph into an e-commerce site fairly quickly and not be a blog. Regards...
I'm confused as well. I wish to enter this contest. Please let us know if you have finalized on a designer or still accepting entries ?