Not sure if this post goes here or in WTB - Sites, but that forum looked full of people flogging cheap sites. Anyway here goes- We want to build several identical sites for different areas of our business. The sites need to look identical to an existing website. Call them micro sites if you wish. Each site will have the same layout, design and structure. The only difference will be the logo of the site and the url. My belief is that this is really only one project that will be copied another 4 times to start with. One design – a direct copy of our existing site that is simply adapted for every site that we want to add. The design must be identical to the existing site as the new sites will feed the existing ecommerce site. Visitors to the new sites will eventually click through to the ecommerce site to make a purchase and the transition should be seamless to avoid confusion. Similar is not good enough. Identical is the only solution. We need content management. This must include- URL – we need total control over this. If we want a page url to say www.ourwebsite.com/who-are-we.thm or www.ourwebsite.com/widgets then we should be able to create this. Some content management systems add numbers or create the url from the page title. We want to create urls as we want them. PAGE TITLE – We need to be able to choose this and change it at anytime through the content management system. KEYWORDS – We need to choose these. They should not be generated by the content management system. PAGE DESCRIPTION – We need control over this. It should not be automatically generated by the content management system. CONTENT – We should be able to edit this and have total control over all page content. We will need to be able to- Change the font, style and size of text Add links Add graphics and pictures where required MENU – This should be identical in style, font and colour to the existing site. We need to be able to update the menu, change menu titles and reorganise the order as necessary. SEO FRIENDLY i.e. Alt tags, text links and not graphics where possible, keyword tag e.t.c. The site structure should also be SEO friendly. Points of importance – We buy our own domain names and we have registered them already. We can provide our own hosting. If you can supply secure, reliable UK hosting then we may consider using your hosting service. We will be producing as many of these as we want so there may be further sites in the future. No links back to the designer/developer. I will be happy to give feedback to any potential customers you want to show the work to. We will maintain copyright over the websites, including, design, structure, logos, graphics etc. Think you can manage this? Can you do all of the above? Please contact me or feel free to ask any questions.
I have a sensible budget that I am prepared to spend on the right project. Surely your fee will depend on your costs, the time involved and what you believe your work to be worth. I am looking for a developer with a good reputation and a good portfolio of work. CCK.