Climos Site Redesign and Implementation

Climos is sourcing a company or individual who can both design and implement a new web interface for our current website at climos.com. Our goals for the redesign include: - A more professional look. - Moving various content to database storage and entry so that the site can be updated more easily. - Providing administrative pages for each of the content types to facilitate entry. - Moving more of the content towards the homepage to create a more dynamically changing experience. - Providing consistent RSS feeds for news, press, blogs, etc. - Incorporating external news feeds into the site. - Harmonizing the look and feel between the main site and and the blog (currently running on wordpress). - Implementing controls on wordpress to screen for spam comments. - Adding additional content areas, such as: recent scientific papers, videos of climos scientific presentations, etc. - Adding calendars of upcoming events which also have “ical?? or other standard calendar formats that can be searched and added to a personal google calendar. ## Deliverables The existing website is at [login to view URL] Climos is sourcing a company or individual who can both design and implement a new web interface for our current website at climos.com. Our goals for the redesign include: - A more professional look. - Moving various content to database storage and entry so that the site can be updated more easily. - Providing administrative pages for each of the content types to facilitate entry. - Moving more of the content towards the homepage to create a more dynamically changing experience. - Providing consistent RSS feeds for news, press, blogs, etc. - Incorporating external news feeds into the site. - Harmonizing the look and feel between the main site and and the blog (currently running on wordpress). - Implementing controls on wordpress to screen for spam comments. - Adding additional content areas, such as: recent scientific papers, videos of climos scientific presentations, etc. - Adding calendars of upcoming events which also have “ical?? or other standard calendar formats that can be searched and added to a personal google calendar. Data sets include: - Blog postings - Press releases - Climos publications - External publications Journaled articles Books - Press on climos - Climos weekly news feed - Videos of Climos presentations - Calendars Climos Events Industry Events - FAQ - Email registration to be notified of upcoming announcements - Jobs Many of these data sets are visible already on the site. A spreadsheet identifying key values for data sets is available. Design guidelines: - Designs should be fixed width, probably no less than 700 and no wider than 950 - Designs should reflect the professional, scientific and environmental nature of the business. - Our focus is on display of information, choice of font, structure of whitespace and appropriate use of color and small icons or graphics is key. Sites we like elements of: <[login to view URL]> <[login to view URL]> <[login to view URL]> - The homepage should include Links to primary website areas (below) The most recent entries from the Blog (Climos Notes) and Recent Press to produce a combined summary of recent postings. These should show the title and a few sentences from the beginning of the body. A continuously updated list of external stories collected from relevant RSS feeds Featured documents Climos Code of Conduct [Scientific Overview] A recent video (click to watch) of a Climos presentation. - Team page and Science Advisory Board pages should be improved to show photos for individuals as well as short snippets of bios. - Designs should use various strategies to make the site more visually appealing, such as shadows and appropriate highlighting. Primary sections of Climos site: - About - Climos Notes (Blog) - Team - Science Advisory Board - Recent Press - Carbon News - Reference - FAQ - Links - Contact Bidders should bid on either the design or implementation or both. Migration of existing site is to be included in your bid. Current website is hosted with Aplus.net. Backend runs on MySQL and wordpress and regular HTML. Pls, no Microsoft technologies.