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Sorry for the kind-of off-topic post, so rather than compound my transgression please respond directly to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than on the list.
I have to make a decision in the next few days about how we’re going to design our new site, and if you want to be considered, now’s the time to let me know. This job would suit a young web designer starting out, or someone who hasn’t got the opportunity to design a standards-compliant site and wants one in their portfolio.
Here’s the deal;
It’s a radio station – well organised and well run, with state-of-the art equipment and we’ve been broadcasting 24 hours a day for 25 years. We contribute programs to the national satellite network and also some programs networked worldwide. We’re a very advanced station from the point of view of broadcasting, but our web site looks like someone threw it together in an afternoon using a hacked copy of FrontPage. The station is prepared to try new things provided they make sense, so it’s a wide brief for a designer.
We’re going to build a fully dynamic site using web standards, and build to XHTML 1.0 strict if we can manage it, XHTML1.0 transitional if we cant. We want a site that’s as accessible as we can make it. We’re about half way through the coding the database and maintenance objects and getting close to needing to have a design to work to now. There’s a site map already and we’re building it with lots of flexibility for adding and removing parts of the site dynamically.
The design brief is to create an eyecatching design for the radio station using CSS and the only required element is to retain the current logo – its on tshirts, caps, pens, printed matter, our outside broadcast bus, signs transmitter etc etc so we cant change that. Other wise, the only limitation on the design is good sense. We don't want the designer to build the site, merely to produce a design for the site- overall design colour scheme, look and feel, a few pages etc for us to use as templates.
Payment: Yeah right. This is a volunteer station and I’m contributing my skills and hosting as part of my contribution to the station. There is no payment. But we can pay you in other ways – recommendations, your logo on the site so you can use it in your portfolio (that’s why it will probably suit a young designer starting out rather than someone who has a portfolio already). If you’re in the western Sydney area, it might suit you to have some ads on the station too. Basically we’re asking a lot and we want to make it worth while to whoever designs the site, but realise it’s not good business for someone with an established reputation as a designer. The short answer is we can’t pay money but we want to make it worth your effort in other ways if we can. We don't want anything for free, just don't have money to pay you with.
There might well be some paying work coming up for you later if you do a reasonable job. Yes I know, I’ve heard that lots of times too. You’ll just have to trust me.
If you’re interested in this outlandish proposition, want to have a free go at an advanced site in the media sector, to build a site that is better than the huge number of pretty useless and non-standard radio station sites, and do it to the latest accessibility and compliant techniques, then reply by email or give me a call on 02-4577-4898.
Cheers Mike Kear AFP Webworks Windsor, NSW, Australia http://afpwebworks.com
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