Jomsocial Website designa nd developemnt

Talking points-monkeyfriendly web design: • visitor statistics captured/google analytics? • project launches-members list items they need for a project then boxes get ticked • function where people can contribute toward project collectively • main tabs “people , products and projects” then many multiple tabs/subheadings for news, events, stories, etc. • Need a tab for classified postings where members can post to it-mainly free, but companies wanting to post would have to pay (ex. Free for member to post a job advert, but a tour company would have to pay) • important that each member page has video/photo upload capacity • monkeyfriendly store itself as a member • room needs to be created within the design for ad space to sponsor the site Spec sheet for website designer of [login to view URL] Concept behind monkeyfriendly.com. 1-Have a site where people from all disciplines can connect with each other to save primates. For example, if a grad student doing a project in Thailand wants to access a primatologist in Canada, they could find each other by way of this site. This does not make the site any more complex, rather each member would be able to contact each member via details posted on their individual member page. A search option on the site would allow searches by key words so people could find one another. 2-Provide e-commerce to people and organizations that wouldn’t typically have access to it, and let the money raised go to fund primate causes. For example, a primate sanctuary in Africa could sell items in the online store and the money raised would go to help save primates. Important points: The final production of this site is my thesis project. I am writing a paper about all the marketing, psychology, design and conservation aspects of using this site to help save primates. As I have received a very small grant toward this project and then funding the rest with my own money, I need to evaluate the site (SEO related and site traffic tracking among other things) and report back to the agency that gave the grant. These things need to be done so we can discuss if you take the project. It involves me monitoring and reporting back to them so it’s important we develop a system of tracking the things they want. I can go into more detail before we begin. My final grade and thesis is dependent on choosing the right web designer. My job is to write the paper and develop the content for the site, whereas the web designer will be creating the site and site design. Please only sign on for the project if you are able to design it in all aspects and have weekly calls over the duration of the project to assess items as we go along. Look of the Design: Modern, fresh, fun. Light colors-mainly white, orange, green and light blue. Nothing near like how it is now with black on background. Look to this example to show how they place with space on the front page instead of having it boxy and uniform like most sites. I want the layout to be fluid like this, except with a primate theme of course. Examples: [login to view URL] I think there should be some moving images on the front screen, moving photos and a place to post a video on the front, home page. This way it has the “look” of a flash site but can be html. For tabs, I am picturing for the main headings: A Home, Members, News/Projects, Education, Action, Monthly question and Shop tabs. Within each tab there would be a pull-down menu to access more and we could develop each tab. For example, under education, there would be a “kids corner” on the pull-down menu so a page would come up with kids-related info and so on for each tab. I need it designed in a customized way so I can add more categories to the drop down menus if I need to. The “monthly question” tab is just really a blog post or conversation thread like we discussed over the phone, nothing too complicated. See this link for an example of a conversation thread.