EDIT: This project is closed. It was awarded to Clive, paid for, and sent for coding. Thanks so much for all of the offers. Thanks all! Please don't submit any more offers. I received quite a few, and am still going through samples. I'll contact the top 5 choices sometime tomorrow morning (eastern time) for email addresses so I can send the .psds for further review. I know some of you need to see them before offering an official quote and turnaround. After receiving those more specific offers, I'll make a final choice. Thanks again! Unfortunately my previous coder took the payment and has disappeared for weeks with no word, no coded theme, and no refund. It's time to find a new coder. I have a layered PSD that needs to be coded for WP 2.8. It's not sliced. It's going to be an image-intensive design with various sidebar background images and such. You can see a screenshot here to give you an idea of what you'd be dealing with. While I won't have additional themes to be coded in the immediate future, I do have several others planned for as soon as I have time to finish the layouts. (most of my themes are simpler than this one - examples at http://nakedpr.com and http://queryfreefreelancer.com). So ideally I'd like to replace my previous guy on a long-term basis as I move all of my sites to custom designs. Please do not post your offers / details in the thread. It's considered bumping, and I'd have to do my job and delete them and issue infractions - no exceptions b/c it's my own thread. So PM me the following info please: 1. Whether or not you can take Paypal (that's the only way I'll pay for now - and please make sure it's your own account - an issue with the last coder was that it wasn't his which he didn't tell me up front and then he wasn't able to use it - it was a serious hassle that I'd rather not repeat). I'll get your Paypal address from you later if I decide to hire you, so don' include it now. 2. Your rate to code that theme. When I choose someone I'll send them the .psd first so they can make sure everything's in order. This way they can see the layering and decide if that quote is still applicable. If you usually charge a different standard rate for simpler themes, please include that too, as I'll want to know about it for future projects. 3. Your expected turnaround. (Please, please, PLEASE don't give me an estimate you can't meet. I'm a pretty flexible person. If you know it's going to take a week, tell me that. Don't say you'll get it to me in 2 days in order to get the job only to miss the deadline - another issue with my past guy. While I'd love this turned around quickly because it's already several weeks late, I'd rather it be done right. 4. Links to 2-3 themes you've coded. Ideally I'd like to see if you've done more image-intensive themes in the past, but if not, send me links to what you have. I'm pretty patient about edits when needs be, but last coder used to miss a lot of little things. So I put together a checklist for this theme for him so we could cut down on the back and forth after my testing. If you're hired and you'd like that, let me know at that time. You can post questions that apply to everyone here, but PM me your details if you're interested. I'll take offers for a day or two before making a decision (so you may not get an immediate response - that doesn't mean I didn't get your info). Thanks! Jenn
Sorry to read about the issues with your previous coder, Jen. I've been around for quite some time coding themes here and there, wondering why you haven't touched base with me so far When you say image-intensive, I hope you are prepared to live with the consequences (higher page load time)?
Yes, I'm expecting that. Once it's coded, I can always further optimize and remove images if needs be. I can hack a theme to pieces - just don't have the ambition to start from scratch. I wouldn't normally go with this many required images, but given that it's for a creative audience and the blog's reasonably big in its niche, I wanted something visually a bit more fun and something that would set it apart than the other freelance writing blogs currently out there. Seems a few people are missing the preview link in the first post, so I'm going to go paste in a screenshot (hope that helps those who need a better idea of the project). I do know bullets aren't shown on the image above. They are included in the second .psd though (for the homepage).