This site needs your help.
I need an "easy button" for some forum admin tasks. The manual methods are just too unwieldy.
The bounty:
I'm not necessarily asking for free help here -- though it would be nice. Perhaps you can return the favor for my past advice that helped you?
If not, I can offer:
- free Premium Membership (with benefits growing after new site is launched, price increasing)
- discount on my hardware
- some money
- a favor, to be used at a later date, and that's never a bad thing to have with me
- some tape conversion work, either discounted or free (least preferred, but will do it begrudgingly)
- some combination of the above
So, with that out of the way, onto the help needed...
The reason, and a warning:
Our current site is now 10 years old.
It has limitations, and has prevented me from writing new guides for several years now.
IMPORTANT: I am not looking for some artsy-farty "web designer", who clickity-clicks in some foo-foo Mac GUI software. I could do that BS myself. I need somebody with an actual understanding of CSS and PHP/WordPress coding.
The project:
Major issues (needs) =
- https is not enabled due to too many hardcoded http calls, and that must be addressed (mostly by avoiding hardcoding in a new template)
- Mobile/responsive CSS is not present, site was made for desktops pre-smartphone
The main site is based on WordPress, and will be again. We have 4 templates as fodder for the new site. The main template is premium theme, and then design/code needs to be borrowed from the others.
Major issues (wants) =
- The main page will be 99% custom to any theme (borrow some elements), tying together a master search, the forum (we already wrote this code snippet), the editorials/articles, the how-to guide, the glossary, the reviews, and the coupons sub-site.
- All sub-sites, including forum (which is already done as a beta), need similar response widths,
- All sub-sites need similar backgrounds
Minor issues:
- I can make the pixel-accurate artwork, but it would be preferred if you can take what already exists, or what is given, and then massage it to work. Improvements are never bad. (What will NOT work is to stretch images, or load huge images but only load in small sizes.)
ASP.NET knowledge will be a plus, as I need help with the glossary. I based the glossary on MySQL, not MSSQL, so it can tie into other sub-sites (forum, guides, etc).
Contact / Questions?
There is more for this. All the code, and a rough template has been mocked-up in Photoshop.
If this is something you can do, PM me, let's discuss.